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Menageries Poems - Poems about Menageries


Premium Member Dark Eclipse Takes the Kitty Fall
...It was strange the cars, like stand alones, all unoccupied, dotting the dark wet stained streets, the moon licking puddles like a stray dog thirsty checking its reflection for a friend, ye......

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Categories: menageries, dark, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
Mother's Stories
...I warned you about Mother telling her stories. I warned you, but you wouldn’t listen. I warned you about the magic of golem and djinn, about lilac walks and mysterious circuses. Stranded mi......

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Categories: menageries, books, childhood, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse



Hiding In Plain Sight
...Music has a special taste feelings lost in sound Touching heard across the room vision by the pound References left unto themselves choir boys in tune Trading what they never had tribute to......

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Categories: menageries, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Road That Weve Been Looking For
...Life is occasionally called a "Rat race" for a reason... There are times we need to step back from life's ubiquitous and toilsome menageries reflecting on where we are in relation to our hopes, d......

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Categories: menageries, allegory, allusion, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
The In-Between
... "The In-Between" I ripped the pages of that tired old story from the heart, a body of work buried the misdiagnosed slanders then wiped their mouths with the back of ......

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Categories: menageries, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse



Abstract
...oscillating back and forth head tilting from leeward and windward an abstract puzzling my imperial gaze a Van Gogh in waiting perchance a reflection illuminated in broad mesmerizin......

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Categories: menageries, beauty, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fancy
...Fancy Fancy rushes by in silk dancing shoes, Stars within her steps, All plumes and feather boas Leaving clouds of spangles, bits of sparkle, Floating in the air - Trails of rainbow ribbons,......

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Categories: menageries, fun,
Form: Free verse
Florida Gardens -- Ten Words
...Florida gardens boast menageries most marvelous— Vermilion hibiscus nodding in the breathlike breezes Infused with night-blooming jasmine and selenicereus scents. Mockingbirds trilling like nighti......

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Categories: menageries, appreciation, garden, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon the Train Tracks of Life
...Trains on theses tracks of Life are moving continually Their view of events unfolds and are unraveling rapidly, consecutively They are a multifaceted composite of compositions A living scenic pi......

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Categories: menageries, appreciation, life, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Must We Have a Party
...Must We Have a Party By Franklin Price 12/14/2015 Must we have a party? What is all this fuss? When we're Asses and Elephants We're missing the bus They're menageries of thinking In ourselv......

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Categories: menageries, political,
Form: Rhyme
You Know You'Re a Writer When
...You know you’re a writer when every circumstance is an opportunity To paint your paper with a pen When a teardrop shed is a new gateway with a gleaming rainbow You know you’re a writer when you a......

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Categories: menageries, christian, devotion, happiness, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hot Time In Auckland City
...“METROPOLIS BLUES” The elemental wind curls in from the north east, sublime salon creations in disarray, in grimy profusion inventiveness subsides. The town clock strikes out, within ear sho......

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Categories: menageries, angst, confusion,
Form: Free verse
The Hydra
...Navigating the immense void of night The right ascension to a winter’s sky; Coincides with the height from which I stood Stars, interlinking crescendo’s so freely, Imitate the centuries, as I pr......

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Categories: menageries, philosophy, science fiction, stars,
Form: Classicism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things