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Knothole Poems - Poems about Knothole


Premium Member tulip painter
...Where is that tulip painter? Someone asked in a strange way. Someone said, “Think I saw him on the sky wind today. “ Yesterday he was crawling out of an oak tree’s knothole. He is a wise artist fo......

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Categories: knothole, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Will Plant Eucalyptus Trees
...At my home, I shall grow two fragrant eucalyptus trees. To entice and taunt koala bear company if you please. A large knothole in the bark can house merry honey bees. I can almost hear the queen o......

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Categories: knothole, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Like An Oak
...like an old oak with a dried up knothole I stand in the wind, feeling her iciness now arthritis flares up in my roots when there is a wind chill Wind chill being the perfect word for it. like ......

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Categories: knothole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April Has Arrived
...Sparrow sneaks up on worm in wet grass Oak watches, tries not to smirk out knothole Spring is such a marvelous season for voyeurism Bright yellow daffodil leads the parade of flowers, Pushing ......

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Categories: knothole, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Train To Auschwitz Contest
...Ashes to Ashes Smoke rises in the distance. The boxcar rocks, rocks, rocks; stones are placed along the ties. Were they placed by Chance or left as gently as Kaddish. I lift my hands......

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Categories: knothole, angst, death, death of
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member I Would Be a Nice Tall Oak
...If I were a tree, I would be an oak. A laughing oak with dazzling shiny hair. My leaves would twinkle and spin and prance happily in the summer. I would watch over the squirrels with their chatteri......

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Categories: knothole, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Alive
...A single ray shone light through a knothole and anchored his thoughts At daybreak for the spider-web’s shadow enlightened the beach hut Tim had lived in a mansion but hardship had unburdened hi......

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Categories: knothole, dedication,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Wisher Man and Me
...The lovely Wisher Man and I found each other by the oak tree. I thought he was a brownie or petite elf, not there for me. You get three wishes, he said, for being nice today. I laughed at him, b......

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Categories: knothole, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Caw Caw Caucus
...Outside convenes a caucus of noisy crows, through my window I observe their convention, an impressive display but no one really knows their chaotic cacophonic intention. Landing on the lawn, a......

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Categories: knothole, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Oaks Book Laid Open
...Vandyke oak tree, burgundy’s of Vandyke reds, browns and gold’s; painted canvas in the sky; a tower of crispy colors. When you shed for winter, your secrets are revealed. Each cu......

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Categories: knothole, animal, bird, earth, environment,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Old Time Neighborhood
...OLD TIME NEIGHBORHOOD (1934) Reborn a wrinkled old child Inhaling the smell of budget Walking those cracked skated-on sidewalks Old trees with grainy knothole eyes standing arm......

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Categories: knothole, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Gutter
...… scattered jazz, haunted gnarls of octupi-night staggering between semen-splinters of stars pain-fornicating in my collective gutter, my disheveled cells oozing your black and softer gold b......

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Categories: knothole, love
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things