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Mawr Poems - Poems about Mawr

To Be
...I said what I had to say And did what I had to do While asking no one to care And seeking nothing from you I went where I had to go And saw what I had to see To get w......

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Categories: mawr, character,
Form: Rhyme
Too Little - Too Late
...Not so much a lie with little truth to tell Not so much goodbye with greetings gone to hell Not so much romance with feelings dead or pawned Not so much to dream with sleep — be......

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Categories: mawr, life,
Form: Rhyme



Fate decreed sexting or texting while married abominable
...Fate decreed sexting/texting while married abominable Therefore karma caught up to me big time and delivered yours truly sent to purgatory (figurative speaking) by casting a spell, whereby the ......

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Categories: mawr, adventure, animal, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Paradise Lost
... Apology not good enough Intention still to blame The road to hell left burning red its deviance in flames Excuses rolling off the tongue with lie compounding lie A higher power judgm......

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Categories: mawr, loss, truth,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......

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



Lovely enchantress of cyberspace
...Lovely enchantress of cyberspace Betwixt and between us lies an immense untraversable realm of never knowable forbidding possibilities quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic..., where ta......

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Categories: mawr, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Logan Pass
...I’m a poet devoid of Cliff Notes dissection not my thing Don’t ask me to explain my words I’d rather hum and sing Explication penniless in ghettos of the word Where vagrants pu......

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Categories: mawr, writing,
Form: Rhyme
The First Cut
...Avoid needless complexity Say it straight out Frost and then Hemingway Set the rules down Between meaning and verbiage The idea is king Sharpen the point The message — the thing......

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Categories: mawr, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Black Rain
...I have zero regard for structure and form if the words as written work A poetic outlaw to ruled acceptance in search of what may lurk Critics and enemies seed the cloud that overflows with sp......

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Categories: mawr, words,
Form: Rhyme
Double Edge
...Words are the enemy till sparingly used And weighted with meaning beyond p’s and q’s They serve to release us with imagery plain Expanding the message —in pointed refrain (Bryn Mawr C......

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Categories: mawr, words,
Form: Rhyme
Just One
...Trying to write a lyric my words reduce to verse The euphony escaping me adrift as I converse Though joy is sorely tempered these letters soldier on In hope of just one melody —in hope of ju......

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Categories: mawr, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Life Reclaimed
...Man is predestined to destroy his world Consciously damning ‘free choice’ unfurled An apex predator upon himself No rhyme or reason or logic dealt Self-destruction his stock in trade Hi......

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Categories: mawr, life,
Form: Rhyme
Katharine the Great
...Bigger than every stage she commanded Greater than the sum of her parts Braver than the men who adored her Sharper than the image —that endures (Tribute To Hepburn-Bryn Mawr College: May, 2......

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Categories: mawr, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Hearts On the Run
...The power of poetry to drive away love A surrogate impostor indentured above Whether spoken or written its message the same All feelings imprisoned in words that explain When waxing poetic ......

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Categories: mawr, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Twilight Sojourns
...Days weave together as night tears at the seams Light as it vanishes deserting my dreams The sun making promises darkness reneges The truth stays an orphan that both will misgive The roo......

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Categories: mawr, time,
Form: Rhyme

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