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Parapets Poems - Poems about Parapets

Premium Member chateau
... legions … of shadowed purpose they rattle the parapets of my flesh morning paints the stark reality that lays like shards of tea-stained saucers before me … an iniquitous army of intent po......

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Categories: parapets, analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Together
...We together can change the way our moral tendencies do stray. Yet we build walls round our estate and over parapets berate the way that others go to pray. Nation on nation joins the fray some......

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Categories: parapets, humanity,
Form: Rondeau



Watchers in the Gloom
...To that shadowed city round Come those that are sorrow bound In their multitudes alas Through a Terminus so vast For a city grim enabling Their eternal laboring From the parapets looking down ......

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Categories: parapets, death, humanity, judgement, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Esuries L
...Esuries (L) (A lone voice whispers) Has love's incandescent crimson light bulb Illuminated your lonely soul yet To help you forget Those quiet years When you walked upon fragile parape......

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Categories: parapets, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
A 21st Century Question?
...A 21st Century Question? Do people still need real human poetry in the 21st century Some still ask as AI plagiarizes when put to task To be the social connectors The innovation and invitat......

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Categories: parapets, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member but to ask
... must a man lose everything to divine those truths inside - must he bare his marrow else deny what flesh should hide - and will he open up his veins thus ......

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Categories: parapets, analogy, introspection, life, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Iberian Cross-Roads
...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......

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Categories: parapets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ebony and Ivory
... Go ahead, try to separate the races. You politicians have egg, on your malicious faces. Not realizing in your frozen hearts. You toss imperfect, very hopeless darts. Neith......

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Categories: parapets, love, race, sister,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Parents On Parapets On Their Cells
...innocence in stock? playtime a torrent. precious salve needed. swings low and highs. slide like the wind; climb spider-red web — now he’s asail on the deep sea. mud puddles* all around. r......

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Categories: parapets, children, violence,
Form: Free verse
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, Cont
...Of Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont. A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath I had seconds to act or be devoured alive I h......

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Categories: parapets, adventure, for her, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Seagulls
...The gulls are low, not skimming, but surfing spray just above the rise and fall of crests. Beaks scythe and catch tracking troughs. They seek the in-between fish thrown between tumb......

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Categories: parapets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Daddy Never Came Home
...Daddy never came home, he kissed mommy goodbye and hugged sister and I as he flew out the door and went to work in a tower that reached the sky with power. Daddy never came home, our phone w......

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Categories: parapets, angst, anxiety, death, family,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads
...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......

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Categories: parapets, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pixie Dragons
...I thought the landscape burst in sudden flame with embers wild cavorting in the glare of dawning sun, but boundless sparks became a throng of monarchs flitting through the air above a field as ......

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Categories: parapets, butterfly, fantasy, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Barricade
...I built my shrine ... My brittle heart, sheltered to hide Choked so often by trust's entangled vine Strong stones, placed side-by-side ... I raised each wall sound and......

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Categories: parapets, analogy, kiss, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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