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Overgrowing Poems - Poems about Overgrowing

Premium Member The Sleepy Hollow
...The day innocence disappeared As life was created down by the Sleepy Hollow The days of great sayings Children bringing up children We did okay for a time Sadly, maturity does what it always doe......

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Categories: overgrowing, birth, break up, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Foolish Trek To the Meadow
...The meadow has come alive with sight and sound As I go through the gate, I hear buzzing all around, The bees are busy working on milkweed flower Waist-high daylilies and coral honeysuc......

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Categories: overgrowing, animal, flower, insect, july,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Aurora Spills
... "Aurora Spills" Aurora spills like a waterfall light from the eyes saltwater tears crocodilian scaled in the weight of worth a drop in the ocean of fate breaks the s......

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Categories: overgrowing, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Walk To the River
...A scarlet tanager sits primly on the rail Of the new fence erected near the meadow, He eyes me stroll as I take in every detail The path to the woodland is rather narrow, Infrequent......

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Categories: overgrowing, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Quatrain
A Rose By Any Name
...A rose once grew strong and tall sheltered from the elements by a garden wall and as the days went swiftly by the rose grew stronger reaching for the light one day a beam shone through and sealed......

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Categories: overgrowing, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Humility
...Coiled up for winter slumber it had rested the budding pledge Soil still moist the promise is waiting for blossoms and sedge To give host to migrating birds returning from busy regeneration ......

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Categories: overgrowing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pink City
...At the edge of the Thar desert, the reposed stilled sands sculpted petrified waves of old dunes buried in the carved rocky pediment of the rolling train of the Aravalli hills. The contorted co......

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Categories: overgrowing, art, city,
Form: Free verse
Aged
...Stepping over the tumble weed Overgrowing the garden path Looking back age 45 and half With 50 firmly transfixed in my sights I am left to ponder Where did it all go right I say in jest a......

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Categories: overgrowing, age,
Form: Free verse
The Missing
...Memories shift through generations; pictures yellow, fray across the currents of time, worn and torn. Hushed stories talk about a life taken away too early, bone fragments in the mud, saltwater grave......

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Categories: overgrowing, memorial day, world war
Form: Narrative
Beggar Child
...Lone baby craving forgotten plays Without holidays your aching days A distant uninspired walker pays While others will not see your dismays Cardboards covering and biting fasting Local shops c......

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Categories: overgrowing, childhood, poverty, solitude,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Of You, This My Journey
...Of you, this my journey ~ Wide eyed illusions of spring flower wishes With maple trees dotting the land that I seek Open and lonely I stroll through the valleys Where grass......

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Categories: overgrowing, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member But Never Forget
...But Never Forget Stoned out his lonely mind and drunk on booze and oblivion he headed straight into memorial abandon doomed and entombed smashed forgotten and lost forever He once was Jack bu......

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Categories: overgrowing, death, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Grandpa
...Dear Grandpa, Are you aware that you can still get social security income if you act now? Did you know that Capital One and Visa want to give you credit cards? Magazines offering tractor and far......

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Categories: overgrowing, family, farm, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet No 2
...Winds a-blowing, graves are bending to the colour grey, Leaves are dancing; light is dimming on the names of dead, Yours amongst them sharply screaming name of love we had, Empty graveyard......

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Categories: overgrowing, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Autumn's Breath
...Autumn's breath is swiftly blowing Trees and branches gently bowing Leaves of red and yellow strowing Over streets and gardens going Leaves are turning, tumbling, showing Autumn's breath is swiftly ......

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Categories: overgrowing, autumn, nature, red, seasons,
Form: Quatern

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