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Oleanders Poems - Poems about Oleanders

Oleanders Poems - Examples of all types of poems about oleanders to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for oleanders.
Premium Member The Horseman
...This is for you big guy somewhere way up in that beautiful sky sweet oleanders danced the universe collided sweeping you throughout this grand galaxy soaring the wide open granduer fi......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, angel, beach, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Blank verse



Hedwig
...Hedwig Her house, a memory lane of sacred spaces: the cobwebbed attic travel trunks, high heeled shoes, pink taffeta gowns, skirts that open into spinning parasols, cool musty wine cellar......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, celebration, family, grandmother, joy,
Form: Free verse
Sonnets Lii-Lx
...Sonnets LII-LX The Endeavors of Lips by Michael R. Burch How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak in love’s strangely lit beds, where th......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, dream, flower, hair, longing,
Form: Sonnet
The Bermuda Race
...The Bermuda Race Don't sail the Rum Line lads To that beautiful isle is quite bad. 600 miles heading just South South East Is not the way to tame the beast. A straight course sailors......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, june, ocean, race, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Did You Learn Anything
...Did You Learn Anything? Go ahead. Put your shoes on. Walk outside and face the nervous day. Know that your lungs will not resist you. Know that your heart will still stir. Put the key in the ......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, memory,
Form: Free verse



A Vain Word
...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under m......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets I-Iv
...A Vain Word by Michael R. Burch Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls under ......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, desire, first love, for
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In a Suburban Paradise
...In A Suburban Paradise I was to spend hours on my bed writing short stories in 1967; with my left leg dangling over the left side, I sat on the right leg, like I was some nosy bird nesting o......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, art, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey I'M Over Here
...Hey, I’m Over Here! Hey! I’m over here! ‘Case you were wondering if I was okay, I am. I have no friends now so no one is checking up on me, And I’m fine with not having friends anymore; They’......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Still Love
...~ The waking sun does slowly rise as dewdrops kiss the lawn Pastels paint horizon’s smile in shades of tinted dawn Oleanders dance the breeze while shadows come to play Maples ......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
1956 Newport To Bermuda Race
...1956 Newport to Bermuda Race In June, 89 sailboats at midday Left Newport and Narragansett Bay. We're on the way in a 635 mile race To Bermuda - a beautiful place. Light winds on the first......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, boat, night, race, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Moment To Myself
...Eating ice cream outside on a beautiful spring day The dog sits at my feet waiting to lick the bowl A cat gently washes himself under a nearby chair Birds flying above chirp joyfully to one an......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, animal, children, flower, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Catholic
...Catholic Stern but saintly Father Meissen scolded the parents for not having their baby boy baptized sooner. It was April, 1952, inside the stained-glassed catholic church, ensconced on su......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
The Wall
...Nowhere, no warm shawl Muscle power raising wall The oleanders fall _____________________________ 29/02/2017......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, flower, pride,
Form: Senryu
Pandemonium
...Paris today is in the grip of killing spree Afghanistan tomorrow another victim New York had faced it terribly Dew-killing fanatics spreading terrorism Equity and equality sadly on the wane Morn......Read the rest...
Categories: oleanders, anxiety, conflict, horror, humanity,
Form: Acrostic

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