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Lichen Poems - Poems about Lichen

The Tops
...up a steep and gritty track reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap their marshy......

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Categories: lichen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
SEA WANTS ME
... SEA WANTS ME Waves are here for the winners spirals floating in turquoise dance ululating undulating blue bright sight a point with paddle board to soar sanguine Seas I know not w......

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Categories: lichen, 12th grade, adventure, emotions,
Form: Ballad



Dawn Pond
...Brackish lichen forms a raft upon the pond, a low haze floats like a moored airship. Small frogs chirrup sotto-voce as if they were dreaming sparrows. Water birds dabble in their sleep. Soon ......

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Categories: lichen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Koropuko Falls
... Hunger for perfectly placed punga path Snakes surely slowly..garlanded scarf Turns & rakes fern festooned forest floor Sun dappled glade, bathed and swathed Glorious green sheens in ......

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Categories: lichen, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Two Worlds
...Laboured breaths with each strenuous uphill step, taking in the ancient spirits from an ancient world when the earth was venerated. Every stride taken prompts visions of the Chaquis who journi......

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Categories: lichen, journey, spiritual, travel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member DOUZAIN a dozen one liners
... QUESTLINE what song do the old never forget YESTERDAY OPPOSITES in the midst of death - lichen comes to life TABB out of the picture - blanked ......

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Categories: lichen, word play,
Form: Monoku
Prove and Learn
...I have heard eternal fires burn With notes of lessons yet to learn, And bathed in Basho’s lyric streams Of Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring I have climbed the lichen cliffs unseen And heard tha......

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Categories: lichen, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
In Spring
...In Spring In spring water troughs fart all the musical notes, butterflies go to Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit bulldogs, placemats collect bits of string to make balls, lich......

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Categories: lichen, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Memorial
... Memorial stained moss Gray lichen upon matter Winding, windblown Leaves, wet and tattered. Hearts grown tough not much to gain, And then I see gentleness In this refrain. A young gir......

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Categories: lichen, age, allusion, angel, death
Form: Free verse
How Ohio Came to Fame
...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface, it is already colonized by moss and fungi factories. Eventually all will churn green spawns to green lawns, not yet of course, ‘yet’ has t......

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Categories: lichen, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Hairy Wild Petunia
..."My Hairy Wild Petunia" Likened To lichen Sphagnum Mostly moss Made moist Dew do me Kiss my Lab ia Good Bi......

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Categories: lichen, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unconscious Bias
...I forgive the stars sleeping in nothingness, too afraid to embrace eclipsed spheres….. In the midst of sweltering gloaming, I ascend, obscured and tarnished, like......

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Categories: lichen, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Steal Away
...Let us steal away to meet beneath the pines Among the moss and lichen we will find Two bodies set aflame with souls entwined Coals smolder in your heart and you are mine Let us steal away to me......

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Categories: lichen, beach, love, nature, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lake District High
...In my New York suburb, I’m mildly fond Of Helvellyn Road, and Gracemere pond But the original Helvellyn called... Ravenglass too, even the name enthralled. Of Lake poets, I eagerly read And I ......

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Categories: lichen, beauty, mountains, nature,
Form: Lyric
Loch Ba
...With clouds dispersing above Loch Ba, to where would we go? And just how far? We followed the track for more than two hours listening to birds enjoying the flowers: meadow pippit, willow warbler ......

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Categories: lichen, bird, flower, nature, tree,
Form: Verse

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