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Limbed Poems - Poems about Limbed

A Name The Wind Knows
...The dresses on the rack were never mine. Their seams whispered secrets I couldn’t keep, stitched for girls who walked like petals in the breeze, who folded themselves small enough to disappear. I......

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Categories: limbed, 7th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Undergrowth With Two Figures
...(after the painting by Vincent Van Gogh) Does she even exist? Doubting her own reality, seeing herself vanishing in undulating undergrowth, fading and merging into summer-scorched scenery. ......

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Categories: limbed, abuse, dark,
Form: Ekphrasis



The Poetic Arts
... Terminology: Crystal booths in a nocturnal snow. significant downpours of shedding stars. This said, feel free to scatter, scrabble or mash. Words are fungible, many still believe that poe......

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Categories: limbed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Overmantle
...Bacchus confronts us in a shady place, A tangled grove, and he, astride a cask. Gross limbs and belly, small besotted face, And lips pursed to the uptilted flask. A buxom dryad, white against his......

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Categories: limbed, culture, dream, drug, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In The Moment
...There is nothing to distinguish this day from any other down on the beach children splash into the shallows dogs sprinting after soggy balls flung from loose limbed strollers while swall......

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Categories: limbed, appreciation, beauty, celebration, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



What do you reckon Venus of Milos was doing when she was fully limbed?
... What do you reckon Venus of Milos was doing when she was fully limbed? Was she thinking Deep thoughts Holding the apple Measuring the gravity Of her life? Was she,......

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Categories: limbed, art, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alfred Joyce Kilmer Tribute 'Trees'
...Alfred Joyce Kilmer Tribute ''Trees'' via rehash VIDEO presentation: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, penned name, 'Joyce Kilmer,' was killed by a sniper's bullet in WWI at 31 years old, 20 July 30, 1......

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Categories: limbed, analogy, death, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Versailles
...In a phalanx of four: Peter, Lisa, Dave, and I, descended a waterfall of marble stairs - pilgrims to another time - as if we’d punched through a wormhole. It’s a five-star bash at the palace of Ve......

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Categories: limbed, boyfriend, fantasy, friendship, happy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Warm Days of Spring
...Warm are days every Spring as flowers bloom and honeybees buzz in search of sweet nectar. The season of birth and growth Songbirds sing while feathering nests and leaves reappear on b......

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Categories: limbed, spring,
Form: Etheree
Poems about Science 1: Climate
...Climate Change Haiku by Michael R. Burch late November: climate skeptics scoff but the geese no longer migrate. The King of Beasts in the Museum of the Extinct by Michael R. Burch Th......

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Categories: limbed, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter's Deep Slumber
...Winter approaches, riding swiftly on northerly winds. Leaves have begun to fall, tumbling upon Autumn breezes. A chill fills the air, eager to settle in, for seasonal changes that ......

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Categories: limbed, sleep, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Nature's Gowns
... Nature changes her gown to gossamer chiffon pastels to welcome spring. Daisy wreath in her hair when finch and robins sing. Nature changes her gown. A bright yellow sundress. ......

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Categories: limbed, nature, seasons,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Trapped Inside a Poet
...Off-beat pulse, echoed heart to part, Separate slime of sweating art. Body but a corpus, corporal careless muck, Limbed flubber army legs lashing ‘gainst the yuck. Mind but memory in meld wit......

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Categories: limbed, absence, anxiety, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone below a great fish Maui snared, and his brothers half-crazed behaving leapt and gouged in frenzy craving. From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga (departing p......

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Categories: limbed, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tree Talk
...When soft zephyrs are stirring arbor leaves Words may be overheard whispered from trees. Leaned against a trunk, my ears on alert, This ranger heard soft words from a filbert. A long-limbed wat......

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Categories: limbed, children, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

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