Peddling Poems - Poems about Peddling

It was a flash of inspiration A truly brilliant solution It would solve a pesky problem A neat and tidy resolution She'd been pondering for months Constantly vacillating When all along the answer Was in the shadows waiting There were way too many rolls Gathering about the hips Caused by cakes and biscuits And massive portions of chips An exercise bike was the answer! You know.... the old...

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I woke again to fight a war, the same as yesterday. Plastic shield met blood-stained boot in blistered feet of tattered youth. Ideals ran amok at dawn then parsed the evening’s jagged light when night shoes danced with tangoing flames on buses, cars, the random truck. Smoke choked every lung. I was the field you plowed to sow your grains...

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Obsession with higher returns on investment Crushes man, separating a person from personal data Collected through stealth, subterfuge hidden in a vestment Free services claim to account holders flatter. Pecuniary motives peddle personal information Concealed ruse gathers and bothers to assemble For sale with neither owners’ consent nor participation In how, what and which corporations information reassemble. Personal information belongs not...

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From Latin and ancient Greek, English derived three words: poesy is the creation, the art work of poetic composition. poem is the created, with beauty of language and expression. poet is the creator or maker, with the gift of poetic thought, imagination, ...

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many moons ago I taught my son to ride his very first bicycle slowly at first, I trotted beside, to hold him up as he got the hang of it as I ran beside I gave him one final push off into the world and he sped ahead for a mere split-second before crumpling over with the bike on the lawn crying, he looked up in dismay and...

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