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Lurches Poems - Poems about Lurches

Premium Member Heritage Day, May 2063
... They dock at the old ferry landing, drip fern-water and quartz dust, pull shapes from a memory nobody can name. The news calls them pioneers. The city calls for volunteers: one hundred cre......

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Categories: lurches, allegory, america,
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: lurches, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme



Periods and Commas, to be or not to be - Mar 21
...i am a writer not a talking work and were i there with you to speak this piece i’d do it as you wish no extra grease but the medium is wrote that’s it’s quirk Victor Borge his name i’ll give it......

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Categories: lurches, humor, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Bloodcurdling
...Bloodcurdling... A scream splits through the dead of night, sharp as glass, raw with pain, choking, gasping, lost from sight. Bloodcurdling... Footsteps pound down hollow halls, too fast, too......

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Categories: lurches, scary,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Stop
...It starts with a hiss and a screech as the murder train pulls in at the station Its cars painted black its windows darkened by the secrets and sins of every nation The conductors smile is twist......

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Categories: lurches, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Recluse
...‘I’m a failed Muslim. I drink raki now,’ he says. A bottle twinkles on the upturned orange box. On the unmade bed, a punch-drunk pillow lurches in a sea of ruptured quilts. ‘I nev......

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Categories: lurches, angst, faith, islamic,
Form: Free verse
Since You've Been Gone
...I am undeniably sad Consumed by dismay I am angry at the world Out of sight & in shadows, I stay My stomach churns wild A tempest inside At what my life has wrought I am consumed with fea......

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Categories: lurches, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Whitewater
...Foaming water, hard to see, raft rocketing rapidly, constant roaring on the air, everything soaked, toe to hair, paddles plunge and the bow shifts slowly through the angry mists, shoots past ro......

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Categories: lurches, adventure, boy, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Beachcomber
...Symptoms in sand from my passing footprints ocean is sick in waves As I sag with water while the salt burns symptoms in sand A dizzying sprite haunts the shores of yesterday from my passi......

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Categories: lurches, absence, beach, introspection, life,
Form: Verse
TITANIC
...TITANIC The seawater around my ankles is so cold Who’d have thought in this final moment That when my time is near, I’d be smiling Well, it is more of an ironic grin, perhaps Damn those tea le......

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Categories: lurches, death, fate, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Illness On The Dance Floor
...Illness On The Dance Floor Illness staggers and lurches Across the dance floor Leaving health To sit this one out Illness with outstretched arms Flounders falls and spits blood Health with lo......

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Categories: lurches, 12th grade, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unwanted Passenger
...Stomping Stomping Stomping Stop, Please No control, Vehicle lurches But I’m just a Passenger on this Road of life......

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Categories: lurches, anxiety, destiny, stress, write,
Form: Free verse
Uncle Didi
...Uncle Didi stays in abbeys and churches. Ministers, nuns, monks gather. Group of seniors, veterans lurches. He was never a minister -- a butcher. Behind the church is a shop, where he used to ......

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Categories: lurches, devotion, jobs, work,
Form: Clerihew
Listen, Listen Do
...The flop and flurry of wide, woozy wings clatters over dawn hedgerows. Claws scrabble, feathers flounce. An ounce of twitters rebounds into raucous sound. Here a rowdy cackle, here a coddled ......

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Categories: lurches, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dominion I
...the boulevard is desolate as is the light that cracks bleeds runs here there everywhere! trash drafts like ghosts in the flicker of dying neon something races head long into oblivion d......

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Categories: lurches, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse

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