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Periscope Poems - Poems about Periscope

1970
... It was the year of `Spirit in the Sky.’ I kept your picture, Irene. Norman Greenbaum has his own webpage now, imagine that? Your grainy wedding photograph (cut at the time from a local news......

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Categories: periscope, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Untamed
... Why is this thing called love when by its fragile intent becomes a sudden slow ember to then simply feed upon the flames of its own bonfire Those cursed lips taste of a bounteous feast ......

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Categories: periscope, love,
Form: Free verse



Captain Nemo,
...Captain Nemo, I; Captain Nemo from the silent darkness of the deep search for a rare lost treasure that vanished so very long ago. Keenly my periscope surveys the shores, scanning intently as thr......

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Categories: periscope, cool, crazy, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member After After
...With remnants of mankind’s existence corroding His lighting extinguished, his concrete eroding The birds and the beasts have reconquered his space Those same birds and beasts have forgotten his fa......

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Categories: periscope, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Desert
...a rattler flicking its split tongue...gathering chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog without a prayer vulture, periscope downward navigates a granulate sea, follows the wavering flow of tracks~......

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Categories: periscope, dark, death, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Draw Add Wet View
... Blossoms line my laden descent down to the perked watering hole that plays empty theater, awaiting my creative path, a royal welcome - represented by accumed variety and presumed ......

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Categories: periscope, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Dark Spectrum
... Lodged in the darkness, where the sea sweeps its shadows forlorn, shorn to the moonlight, quipped to the pun. Porchlights turn on, but nobody's home. The......

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Categories: periscope, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Gift Ideas, Maybe?
...Some gifts were great for yesteryear But with a face lift they can reappear Like that good old soap on a rope Can now be: may I have the envelope When cleaning below the ship’s deck Now you do......

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Categories: periscope, christmas, giving, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where is God hiding
...Consciousness review, reveals the cause of inner conflict, between head and heart, both standing apart, so close, yet so far. Ego dwells in head and God in our heart. Periscope vision, illum......

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Categories: periscope, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member LUMINOUS a potd
...Luminous lights appear in my long dreams, as my soul, so it seems, holds high a periscope for my heart and mind to see every surrounding scene beyond the heavy, seamed quilt of history laid......

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Categories: periscope, dream, environment, god, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Thought of the Day
...If we pray for departed souls Forms we encountered in this life By doing so do we not negate Life forms we touched earlier on For our embrace, they still wait Let us then look beyond lifespan ......

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Categories: periscope, introspection, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I Bought a Submarine
...I bought a submarine. Not the sandwich either, a full on submarine. I got rid of all the useless stuff of course. Scrapped all the metal hulls, dumped the useless motor, left the curved propellers in......

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Categories: periscope, image,
Form: Prose Poetry
In the Buoy of November
...The door is open, To the month that precedes the year's end, The curtains have given way, The eleventh month has taken the stage, A transition to the change of time and season. The plans for t......

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Categories: periscope, hope, inspirational, light, november,
Form: Free verse
I Saw a Picture of Irene
...It was the year of `Spirit in the Sky.’ I kept your picture Irene. We all thought we would die young. Your grainy wedding photograph (cut at the time from a local newspaper), has emerged again......

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Categories: periscope, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Makings of Hope
...Hope dwells in us, It’s a lighted splinter, Waiting to be rekindled. Hope is latent in us, It comes to the fore through us and by us. Hope is that shadow that walks with us, The lesser th......

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Categories: periscope, hope,
Form: Free verse

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