Nouns Poems - Poems about Nouns

Two Small Verbs/Nouns Love and hate, two peas in a pod. Two words so alike yet not alike. Both filled with passion, evoking strong feelings. We act on them, or not, each in our own way. Both, the opposite end of an emotional spectrum. They are the root and evolve into other verbs or nouns. Two peas in a pod, so similar yet so different. They both lie deep within...

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Written by Gail Debole November 26, 2024 Adding "ing" to nouns has taken over the town. English Traditionalists - turn your frowns upside down. "Being an adult" is now one word. We are all "adulting" or haven't you heard? So I guess the next noun to be "verbed" Is that a child is "childing" or is that absurd? All languages evolve through the...

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evening fragrance a chanel no: twelve rem·in·is·cence of you NOTE: why hiku ? HAIKU the ' phonetical&cultural original 'in Japanese' whereas HIKU is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to true imagist poetry),&to avoid 'as'&'to' & the use of past tense verbs (often without verbs,adverbs,adjectives )A...

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homelands / husbands / playing house / strands & strings of horses behind strangers lounging un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective as a twisted bark of favors sneaky is a wooden gift donkey at a garden gate overbitten hinge with ten front teeth, grinning hidden from...

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parliament mischief unkindness and murder crow family...

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Collective nouns, what do you mean? Let me present- A gaggle of geese, A moose and some meese, A tuft of grass, And a band of thieves, A fleet of ships, And a flock of sheep A flock of sheep? Well, if the goose is geese, geese are a gaggle, moose is meese, So, why is it not a shoop and a sheep? ENGLISH! I think I might...

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Alas I sit alone with all of them Afraid I might offend them on a whim They’ve backed me out upon a flimsy limb Above the water knowing I can’t swim. It’s worse, I tell you, than it really sounds For if the branch was over solid ground I’d shout the names in hopes I’d somehow found The proper use of new...

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My heart bleeds words which take the form of poetry – by poet There is grace in the nouns Freedom in the verbs There is music in the prose Whispers of light in the poem There is hope in the thoughts ...

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Potpourri of collections Hug of affections Season of winters Track of sprinters Road of cars Street of bars Pad of flies Pod of eyes Tin of sardines Western of jeans View of lens Peck of hens Pulpit of preachers Lesson of teachers Smack of bottoms Perfume of blossoms Fist of thugs Bed of bugs Table of logs Circle of cogs Score of musicians Face of beauticians Kiss of loves Peace of doves Whistling of birds Conversation of words Blind of...

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I loved it when you were learning And practiced with adjectives at every opportunity You would frame my face within your hands And kiss me fiercely before announcing “Happy kiss” A kiss that had no special reason, coming as a sample Proving the glow upon your face was real and marvelous That you were at home, safe within my heart. I loved...

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A group of fish is called a school. A bunch of whales, a pod; And crows comprise a murder, Which I’ve always thought was odd. Many goats become a tribe; Lots of apes: a troop. Hares: a warren; chicks: a clutch And geese: a flock, not group. Squirrels form a scurry; Antelopes create a herd. Platypuses make a puddle, Which just sounds absurd. Bats, a colony do...

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Grapefruit floats in milk But milk curdles in grapefruit Nouns are funny things...

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Rice walls slide secrets Hand paint intellectual lips Tear Kimono wings...

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My Floribunda Rosettes apricot and peach My garden angel...

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Cedar, pine, holly January evergreens. branches, needles, leaves....

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