Get Your Premium Membership

Pickaxe Poems - Poems about Pickaxe

Steady the float

...Here rest my oars.
A killick thrown to the school of fishes,
To still my boat from the peering waves.
Fishy-wishy scatter as water splatters,
Like wood chips flying when the pickaxe strikes.
A s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, boat, fish, fishing, sea,
Form: Free verse

The Grind

...The Grind

In Gielinor's realm, where legends reside,
A hero emerges, with nowhere to hide.
From Lumbridge to Kharazi, a journey untold,
With pickaxe and sword, a story unfolds.

The grind is ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Love Embodies

...What love embodies is set in stone
Only a pickaxe can break
What's truthfully there, damage prone
What the heart wants is stuck with a stake
Maybe I’m the pickaxe who destroys all love
But I wil...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, first love, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Sheer Fall

...Top of the world, Ma —
See those little fingers down there?
Those tiny rivers runnin’ thru the valley —
You fall, you won’t be repaired 

Gimme pickaxe, gimme rope-ladder
Gimme both McKinley an...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, courage, future, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

Other Ears

...As if by other ears,
you hear the trees cracking,
a black ice splitting the sky,
a pickaxe laying bare
night’s white bones.

Sleepers arise
still dreaming of such things.

A cave, and inside...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Curtain Pulled Back

...12/26/21


Time I make a splash
Got to fulfill important tasks
Can't rely on hiding behind masks
It won't always be what you asked

Staying intact or full of bug splats
Broken and cracked wi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Teaching Chimps To Speak a Few Words

...Teach them just enough words to know
a pickaxe from a pencil…. just a few practical words
for practical applications, not too many,

otherwise they might turn into poets,
and god-knows we don’t ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Teaching Chimps Words

...Teach them just enough words to know
a pickaxe from a pencil…just a few practical words
for practical applications, not too many,
The chimps could build dog kennels for dogs,
shelves for ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Love Misconception

...In all honesty
I believe Love is actually blind
That she lost her road
And headed straight 
Into the mess, she lays in today
I hope we all find her, bathe her and clothe her
Cos she's really a ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, bible, first love, love,
Form: Free verse

Teaching Chimps Some Words

...We should teach the chimpanzees to read
the names of certain things. Objects like tools 
for instance
then label the tools: hammer, saw, axe,
screwdriver etcetera, then screws and nails.

Teach...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberJust Climb

...Though dormant, your strengths are still present...
within the silky staircase of God woven DNA.
Just peel away layers of perceived weakness
climb through the fiery muck and mire...
through acidi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, confidence, faith,
Form: Free verse

Miss Andry

...Miss Andry, you are truly a mystery. 
You have Revealed yourself as Artemis and Lady of Ephesus to Many. 
Miss Andry, you're mother nature that Roars like a lion and your voice thunders time after ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, beauty, culture, freedom, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Mountain

...MOUNTAIN

                                                   I
                                                 used
                                            to be stable,
                   ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, analogy, identity, integrity, introspection,
Form: Concrete

Reluctance Refinery

...i represent an
invisible wall to
you
everytime you walk
by
i wish i was a
magician only for
you
everytime you walk
by
i would create the
most amazing art for
you
everytime you walk
by
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Burial, Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet: L'Enterrement

...The Burial, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet : L’Enterrement

I know nothing as gay as a burial !
The grave-digger who sings with his pickaxe in bright thrill
The church bells from afar reverber...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pickaxe, funeral,
Form: Sonnet

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry