Get Your Premium Membership

Linseed Poems - Poems about Linseed

Premium Member Biographies
...Artists are not so different, at times glossing over truth, hiding beneath a sheen -- some extra linseed goes a long way... What is this cry for realism?! Picasso sought deeper meaning vi......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, art, freedom, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member CORDIAL FLOWERS
... Bursts of blooming colors in my garden fair every bud is beauty born of love and toil rays of sunshine easy days and breezy air cordial flowers flushed with color coil Nature sings of ......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, beautiful, garden,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Detolf
...Today was the first day I held a sledgehammer with intention Callouses connect palms to fingers tiny fleshy boa constrictors. There is no catharsis I know this to be a hollow act With a face......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, anger, break up, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Original Blue Haired Alice
...Original blue- haired Alice rewrote the story Wearing a gown she constructed from linseed With lace sleeves cut from a summer shawl Possibly her grandmother’s favorite garment She popped roses ......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, books,
Form: Prose Poetry
What I Do In Between the Words
...The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut. I polish it with a soft cloth and occasionally use linseed oil. I dust a porcelain lady twice a week. She does not need my attention, but I give......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Kindling Kindness
...Finally, she could get down on her knees again, not in prayer but to touch rosemary and lavender which had begun to send its fragrance into the spring and rising warmth in nature’s heart. There was n......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, happiness,
Form: Haibun
Barn Life
...I miss the barn, the hay loft, a place to listen to the midday sun creaking through old wood., the small clouds of horse flies moving as one in their jet-pack bodies, that rose and fell their......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Four Bears
...Flying Jib son of Curry Comb The care of the comb son of Garden Gnome Garden Gnome son of Pillow Case The case of the headrest o’ Second Base Second Base son of Baby Chick The chick who’s a ......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, fate, father, fun, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Country of Cowards
...fettered frightened multitude at our backyard, wailing in sombre sigh, waiting for beckett's “godots” multitude with talents begs their oppressor to survive, dying amidst plenty with multitudin......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, africa, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
What I Do Between the Words
...The stock of the rifle is hand-selected walnut. I polish it with a soft cloth and occasionally use linseed oil. I dust a porcelain lady twice a week. She does not need my attention, but I giv......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Outing
...Logs stacked by a decaying shed; scent of burning embers from chimney’s wafting past my face; I breathe in the crisp evening chill. The woodlands, a palette of color waiting to be l......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, animal, appreciation, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flame In the Mirror
...The prism had reflected a crumbling schism of broken glass for far too long A mosaic with sharp spikes and edges imprinted on a breaking point of shards Copious cornucopia scattered over a trap......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, firework,
Form: Free verse
Generations
...When I was twelve my grandma told me I was a woman – and in six or eight years I would be a wife. She said Sundays would be pasta days, Fridays I’d cook fish – and to keep a net of mothballs in m......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, age, change, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lxxi - Continued-
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXI LXXI IF ever I had a country targeted by no refugee And if ever I were appointed by the Inter-Planetary Committee KING of this territory by Inter-Galactic ......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, america, immigration, leadership, planet,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
In Flowered Fields
...The face that was familiar is no more Yet in my dreams ,we amble through bright fields Where cornflowers and blue linseed softly grow The face that was familiar is no more The emptiness and l......

Continue reading...
Categories: linseed, allegory, lost love,
Form: Triolet

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things