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Outcropping Poems - Poems about Outcropping

Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country
...Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country He seeks (in tandem with the missus) legal asylum in Canada... New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, et c......

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Categories: outcropping, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Sane Sexagenarian Scribe Seeks Asylum In Canada
...Sane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada... should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook, (1003 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes until 2024 election), yours truly steels, girds, braces.......

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Categories: outcropping, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fog Is Rising
...Fog is rising from the distant valley, As morning creeps toward high noon While courageous rafters run the river, And the early climbers reach the crest Of the outcropping along th......

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Categories: outcropping, nature, river, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member High Desert Scene
...Rolling hills dim in the distance Beneath low-hovering mists, While an occasional stand of pines Punctuates the shallow canyon rim, The steppes to the summit appear Like wrinkles ......

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Categories: outcropping, art, nature, places,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Tragic Petals
...Freely Asked And Wholly Answered In Each Others Touch. This As Much As More And Never Less Than All. Strange And Wondrous Beauty Thou Art Rare To Thus Descend Upon Me Now As I, Stand Thus......

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Categories: outcropping, flower, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Crossing
...I Cut clean through two tall black mountains, A jagged metal river froths like rabies. Raging between outcast boulders and spires The blue-grey greatsword eternally grinding at stone. The foot......

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Categories: outcropping, beauty, death, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
La Loba
...La Loba rose with the sun barely glancing over the desert’s surface. This old hag was as reliable and necessary as the fall dearth marching toward the spring’s refrain. She carried with her a s......

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Categories: outcropping, myth,
Form: Free verse
Thrones In the Woods, Or Catskill Kingdom
...High up amidst a forest slope, in bedding grounds where whitetails lope, by ledges hidden from our eyes, a quirky outcropping does lie. Breaking a broadleaf canopy, the scree-slope of an old q......

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Categories: outcropping, appreciation, beauty, imagery, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Untouched Solitude
...hot, humid, barren granite outcropping garden brown moss, flowers bloom 8/3/2018......

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Categories: outcropping, flower,
Form: Haiku
Sorrow Drowns On Dry Land
...Sorrow drowns on dry land Standing at a distance, staring at staggered lines on a rock face outcropping buried deep beneath an ancient rose garden Corroded iron bars chained and bolte......

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Categories: outcropping, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Collaboration Contest
...COLLABORATION CONTEST The Petal-Sprinkled Path The petal-sprinkled path We walked together The lip-sharing math In the cherry weather We walked together Time flew with lightning......

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Categories: outcropping, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Petal-Sprinkled Path Collaboration Contest With Probir Gupta
...The Petal-Sprinkled Path The petal-sprinkled path We walked together The lip-sharing math In the cherry weather We walked together Time flew with lightn......

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Categories: outcropping, nature,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member In Search of You
...Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river. Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and hardwood trees gathered near its banks like a band of cr......

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Categories: outcropping, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Fire-Crackers
...Firecracker - a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise. Firethe Southern sergeant shouts to the boys behind him In unison......

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Categories: outcropping, death, war,
Form: Acrostic
The Tree
...High amongst the mountain peaks, Stands a gnarled old tree. Clinging desperately to the rocky cliff, It is the only one to see. How many years long past, Has the tree tried to live, On that roc......

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Categories: outcropping, death, environment, grief, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

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