Lisle Poems - Poems about Lisle

Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue

...Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue

Just a couple weeks shy 
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 ...

Categories: lisle, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme

Dusk At the Beach

...As a rainbow of the sunset descends
   and the balmy breeze washes over sand
   that tickles between toes and carefree hand,
I’m in the company of valued friends.
The deceptive calm of darkening ...

Categories: lisle, beach, friendship,
Form: Sonnet

I Can'T Breathe

...The last of me is drowning deep in agony 
A packaged denied arrest paints a felony 
Isn't it crazily funny?
We live together in harmony 

Whereas urgent attention couldn't rescue the saga
From ...

Categories: lisle, abuse, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Toilet Humor-Collab- Newest Additions

...Limricks prompted by a comment made by someone today

It's a fact, and no longer just a rumor
Some soup people barf at toilet humor
Have you sniffed your own butt 
It stinks so...

Categories: lisle, humor,
Form: Limerick

No

...

Don't be ruthless in communication
be it written or verbal, teacher told,
never say 'no' as wise people have told.
Feel the impact in brain with negation.

A 'No' word releases do...

Categories: lisle, stress,
Form: Sonnet

P S Its Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 13

...P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 13

 Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and each w...

Categories: lisle, analogy, poems, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse

Unspoken Dream of Someone Else

...It felt like an unspoken dream of someone else.

It was a memory of Lisle, IL, quite a while ago.
I was waiting at the train station, to be picked up.
It was almost dark, and I was waiting. And s...

Categories: lisle, destiny,
Form: Lyric

Vagaries of An Unknown Methacton High School

...Nineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni

Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
     must be fast at work
     cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force

     donning, housing, loosing,
    ...

Categories: lisle, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Landlady Turned Rogue

...back a small number of years thee diva of this domicile
exhibited an aura, charisma, enigma…devoid of any guile
boot of late turned a cold shoulder to me and I’ll
avoid denigrating, haranguing, an...

Categories: lisle, abuse, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

The Man Who Lives In the Gym

...The Man Who Lives in the Gym

		St. Procopius College
		Lisle, Illinois
		after World War II

The man who lives in the gym
sleeps in a nook up the stairs
to the rear. Since Poland 
he's slep...

Categories: lisle, war
Form: Free verse