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Lexicons Poems - Poems about Lexicons


THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace. A few wars to realize their dreams. They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise, Spitting laws applied only to the weak. They paint bombs in the colors of......

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Categories: lexicons, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A not so quaint Saint'
...Poet and saint Dunstan was great, pushed in a cesspool.' He arose.' He survived he was no fool.' Archbishop He would be' Counsel to Kings. Often gave he! humble yet strong he Ordered lexicons stu......

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Categories: lexicons, appreciation, city, history,
Form: Other



Premium Member Delphic
...Quote: The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The forest is my sanctuary, a sphere of......

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Categories: lexicons, deep, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mountebank
... A dispenser of dishonest vice, a peddler of blatant lies, In his unscrupulous realms, nobility of truth sadly dies, Where righteous vibes of morality and decency agonize; Where benevolence cries......

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Categories: lexicons, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Bookshelf
...Biographies of different kinds Orwell with Atwood, intertwined Old books, new books, a thousand rhymes Keeping their words, holding those lines Singing caged birds, sit whistling chimes Historie......

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Categories: lexicons, books, history, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member If It Wasnt For Poetry
...From the very depths of my inner being I cherish poetry, without the written verse I’d be impoverished as a person, literary projects spur me on to otherworldy epic peaks, an open channel with f......

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Categories: lexicons, art, august, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reel
...Choose moment foiled Over moment gone or none. Penance paid all bard alas anon. Bars of boxcars rolling down Canals of clotted wax; These are the facts As I know them to be; Sum total me. ......

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Categories: lexicons, america,
Form: Rhyme
Mimesis
...I know languages count by silent lexicons I know oceans measure by waving hands I know serpents poison by miseries I know clouds mould by whispers I know rivers clutter by sediments I ......

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Categories: lexicons, character, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Free verse
Buzz Words
...You might have noticed that: Trumpsky has favorite words in his limited vocabulary "Believe it" and "YUGE" are redundancies in his formulary But TV Talking Heads have their own words too Wh......

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Categories: lexicons, humor, humorous, irony, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Original Invitations
...Rather than Ten Commandments, beginning with loving YHWH, iconically accessible and yet mysterious as ecosystemic Earth, Native Americans and perhaps all original people mutually deploy Origina......

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Categories: lexicons, caregiving, gospel, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Black Roses Perfectly Grown
...Chinue Achebe You are the moon of Africa' night tale, You are the muse, the pen and the mood A thousand brave waves of the blacks I write through the galaxy of your stars here. Wole Soyinka ......

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Categories: lexicons, africa,
Form: Ballad
God
...God One word Oh Poets join me in my thirst for words There is only one And in the mastery of language mysteries Carried on with feeble soul to find To speak of that which I do not know And ......

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Categories: lexicons, god, identity, image, spiritual,
Form: Didactic
Tchotchke
...My abecedarian fingers Numb to their recalculations and lexicons I brush slimly my thumb through each And clasp myself in fives or nines It sinks its full weight like an equivocate clasp One g......

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Categories: lexicons,
Form: Free verse
Nigerian Ninjas
...I see their faces on billboards & posters with democrat's smiles they flatter their figures they do not paint their mastiff & slavers The constellations of their idle ideals is missing in their pi......

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Categories: lexicons, political
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things