Metered Poems - Poems about Metered

to write or not to write

...To write or not to write
Is that not the question
Whether to shed blood
In guise of metaphor
Or curl the tainted words
Ball-like upon the floor
To cast the spell of rhymes
Quick dancing step
...

MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503

... enigmatically enlightened 
                   embodied essence of 
o__live imperceptible 
            darkly moon-fragrant purity a__live
still knowingness of rippled
                 ...

I AM POETRY

...I am poetry
An unheard whisper
Shadows
Conspiring
A tear
Soaked in laughter
Anger
Molded in metaphor 
Humor
Wielding the axe of angst
Whispering
A farewell kiss

I am poetry
The invisib...

Something For Kathryn

...Your words
they fall silent
but your life
is a poem

Each motion
and gesture
by Heaven
are known

You rhyme
every smile
your eyes
metered guides

To love
written couplets
of joy
— f...

Ephemeral Waters

...My 
Patience
Slowly slip 
Each word spoken 
Days become hazy 
Memories wash away
Each breath carefully metered
Time cascades into a river
Currents erase stories forever
Flowing toward vast o...

The Edge of Time

...I’m sitting on the edge of time
For just a disembodied pause,
While pointed hands o’er rounded chime
Obey the pendulum’s swayed cause.

Where kinetics’ course is lastly laid,
Comes forth the po...

Common Words

...That rainbow, the colors, the shimmer and glow!
But what do I know of light refraction?

This Medical Illustration Man has been drawn
with only nerve and bone.  He's got a lot of nerve!

A dand...

NO BE STRANGERS

...NO BI STRANGERS:
No bi strangers to Our success,
dis na anderson walkingshoes.  
 i'm part for ya world for strangers, 
intensively,our focus are metered,
ova di hilly regions,we keep flopping f...

Loving Tree

...While wandering across a forest floor
Through twists and turns of gnarled trunks of trees
See insights more than one was looking for
Images born by bending weathered breeze

There is a lover's e...

NO MORE STRANGERS TO OURSELVES

...NO BI STRANGERS TO OURSELVES:
dis na anderson walkingshoes.  
 i'm part for ya world for strangers, 
intensively,our focus are metered,
ova di hilly regions,we keep flopping from discovery,
di d...

You will then miss me

...When I gasp for the last of breath
And take tentative steps to death,
Way-lost, unsure wither to go, 
Baffled, fallen short of your faith,
                       You will then miss me.

And whe...

In Marked Territory

...I surf through the crooning crests
of warm, blue waters,
breathing poetry and prose,
carved in topaz and turquoise,
for I am the goddess
of the bittersweet estuary,
crowned with foamy salt ...

UNPLUGGED

...I took a bunch of cliché’ I knew
Put them in a cliché’ stew
Claimed the work was fresh and new

Nearby a blue-lit screen was weeping
For human-ness was slowly creeping
Exposing secrets it was k...

My Art

...Music is not my passion,
But I have other songs to share.
I can’t use oils and canvas,
But with my pen I have a flair.

The stanzas are my choruses.
Through my poems my soul doth soar.
My bato...

A Brief Guide To My Jaw Harp

...percussively
I think my way as rhythm 
over cloud peaked tops
mountain points like metered dots
and on them stand and pluck, oh see
my breath transcends eternity

introspect
I aim my gewgaw o...

• Short Metered Poems
• Famous Metered Poems
• Best Metered Poems
• Read Metered Poems
• Long Metered Poems
• Metered Quotes