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Mailboxes Poems - Poems about Mailboxes

Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......

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Categories: mailboxes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jumping Fences
...Did you know you’re trespassing? Gated communities with white pickets; white teeth. All of their new blood rushes towards leagues of Ivy and ROTC gold. Loud engines. Window signs. (......

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Categories: mailboxes, community, family, growing up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Too bad your BX from behind bars threats are wasted
...Many blessings after all these years i got refunded for the days I worked 1997 I left a job at the BX i left in great standing actually they owed me six days pay by gods grace my pay was refunded the......

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Categories: mailboxes, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Glory was the Winner
...When consulted, the mailman said, "Sure, put a little daisy on the mailbox if you want." So we all put on daisies. Martha put one daisy. I put up two, the girl down the street put on a marigold. ......

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Categories: mailboxes, flower,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lost Art
... There was a time when we waited eagerly for the mailman - when mail deliveries had actual mail in them There were real hand-written letters from......

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Categories: mailboxes, loss, nostalgia, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Heading Out
...A dawning twilight's me. Oh, joy. Oh, what a joy. This day. Oh, what a day. A breath bestills my eyes and I, e'er slight, a deeper breath that reopened them and myself to a blessed pleasing. ......

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Categories: mailboxes, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Driving In the Dark On My Birthday-Oct 7
...Thirty minutes til pickup - leaving home before crack of dawn A slew of police cars and orange cones blocking the exit Reading mailboxes with old eyes - not owl eyes My friend and I exchanging gif......

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Categories: mailboxes, dark, travel,
Form: List
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof like translucent fingers Clawing towards the ground While behind the eaves, She brushed her plain brown hair Tired gray eyes in the mirror, Discolored around th......

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Categories: mailboxes, winter,
Form: Free verse
No Anchor For Rancour
...Icicles hung from the roof like translucent fingers Clawing towards the ground While behind the eaves, She brushed her plain brown hair Tired gray eyes in the mirror, Discolored around th......

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Categories: mailboxes, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Art
...Lost Art There was a time when we waited eagerly for the mailman - when mail deliveries had actual mail in them There were real hand-written letters from parents, cousins, children, ......

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Categories: mailboxes, loss, muse, perspective, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Glory Won Mailbox Competition
...When consulted, the mailman said, "Sure, put a little daisy on the mailbox if you want." So we all put on daisies. Martha put one daisy. I put up two, the girl down the street put on a marigold. ......

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Categories: mailboxes, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am My Block
...I am my block. I am the neighbors. I am the stoops. I am the steps. I am the concrete. I am the windows. I am the roofs. I am my block. Her mantra kept going well into the night. I am my block. ......

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Categories: mailboxes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mystery Be
...The Mystery Be Mistral freedom o'er stakes waged before, destined mortal souls their reposed earth, spent sepulchers clips tales from postwar, nonetheless, facts become one back door, proves e......

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Categories: mailboxes, america, freedom, peace, war,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Great Transitions
...Great transitions became part of human experience after we gave up on daily nomad lifestyle, perhaps too bohemian to have ever actually existed out of nutritional nurturing choice As contraste......

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Categories: mailboxes, appreciation, earth, health, moving
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 1959 Was My Heyday
...I retired gracefully, happily, knowing I could never be fully completely replaced even to this day. I was slick, photographic, revered by so many, loved by a few, heavy, a bit conceited but in a goo......

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Categories: mailboxes, 12th grade, childhood, christmas,
Form: Personification

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