Perilously Poems - Poems about Perilously

A Call To Action

...Rebellion and riverbeds start to dance 
with a rush flowing, slowing, then stalling. 
Both try perilously to gain traction,
the current is treacherous take a stance.
It may appear that you’re bar...

Sweet Sludge Serenade

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Written: April 09, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand

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sometimes there's soft sludge
a harsh grip that creeps in 
secretly and vei...

Sad and Painful Tears For Haiti At Xmas

...The nonstop negative news or publicities on Haiti
Hurt tremendously and disturbingly
The relentless or constant bashings of all Haitians
Twinge and twist my heart like cancer patients
On their de...

She is Lost

...
I know she is lost 
but those lost 
can be brought home 

I want to print 
one hundred 
missing flyers

but how she’d hate 
to be found
believes she knows 
this twisting trail 

Like h...

Mystery of Chaos

...Clouds are silvery
Clouds are a mystery 
Mystery is mesmerizing 
Mystery is like smoke
Smoke is blurry 
Smoke creates paintings
Paintings inspire thoughtful minds
Paintings appeal to dreamy ey...

kingdoms notes

...You stole my far away kingdom
didn't say what for?
Said I didn't have the jurisdiction 
to grapple my own crown

The ice resurrects steely bacteria 
will our antibiotics endure?


I feel all...

Different Worlds

...suddenly a commotion
a score of gulls screaming
wings flapping, gliding, wheeling
then within half a minute
away into the sky behind the houses
what and why I asked myself
but found no answer, ...

Ohh Yee Hummingbird Swimming In My Head Before Bed

...Ohh yee 

Multicolored feathered luminous 

Hummingbird

Perilously perched on the tree ahead

Recently just since landed here

Currently now drawing in such deep breaths 

Filling up you...

Near Fall

...Reading some homework
The day seems like artwork
Has the sky ever been so blue

Three guys toss a frisbee
perilously near me
shirtless boys silhouetted in turquoise

We’ve got our shades on
...

Poetic Paean To Papa's Princess

...Poetic paean to papa's princess

Otherwise titled:
Mien wonderful wedded divine wife....,

whose piercing deliverance,
a balm ameliorating tattooed strife
despite being dirt poor,
(especially...

My Dancing Queen

...My old bones swayed to the old tune
bringing back memories long forgotten.
My spirit rejoiced in exultation
of a ne'er forgotten loving excitation.
For you’re my Dancing Queen.....
 
There you ...

Morning Rounds

...I woke up this morning
wondering where I was last night
when this morning,
a glint in my mind,
before wandering where I last got home
here from wondering how last night
again

Hoping
without...

Redemption

...Psyche perilously perched in purgatory
Tragically trapped in the middle 
Swimming through a swamp of suffering 
Perplexed trying to solve life’s riddle  

Sinful soul of a sinner 
Peacefully pu...

A Walk In the Park After Dark

...I like walking in the park just so long as
it's not after dark 

Because when it is it bristles with
a sordid air of unease and other worldly
risk

So much so even the familiar leaves strike
...

Optimistically Crushed Dreams Matinee

...Oh boy I am so coy I once thought

Skating perilously round and round
an icerink floor trying ever so hard
not to fall

Just incase i make other people laugh 
and have a joke at my expense 

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