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Pickaxes Poems - Poems about Pickaxes

The Branches

...Thorns and prickles dangle at the root of the tree and the temperature is shouting at a hundred and seventy degree; destiny is baking a global cake and you have to get your slice before they close th...

Categories: pickaxes, business, career, color, creation,
Form: Narrative

Reading a Poetry Book

...Time surfs over one page after another.
I wonder about the interludes,
the growth or decline of lesser or greater.

A few pages
stand out, creating pinnacles of inspiration,
that rise far beyon...

Categories: pickaxes, poetry,
Form: Free verse

whispers

...The dignitaries are passing through the town in big Limonene and long gowns. They are throwing five hundred dollars bills on the ground and the people are running all around.

Children are running ...

Categories: pickaxes, bereavement, break up, change,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Stravinsky - the Rite of Spring

...Taken inside the bowels
of bassoons, 
tropical heat from
swelling bows.
		Sweat labors the brow,
		full with carnal dissonance.
The throat is lunged
by a beast
veiled in foliage.
		Spewed in...

Categories: pickaxes, analogy, birth, creation, desire,
Form: Personification

They'Re Trying To Tell You

...They’re trying to tell you
That your superstitions and machinations 
Are an exhausting game of whack-a-mole
They’re trying to tell you 
You’ve assumed a version of them
That society told you exi...

Categories: pickaxes, corruption, environment, money, political,
Form: I do not know?

Uncle Eldon

...UNCLE ELDON 


Now that I am old,  I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life.  Among these people, ther...

Categories: pickaxes, dedication,
Form: Narrative

A Goose Tale Is Not a Gooseberry

...A goose in a noose got loose today. At last. At times he had watched as bodies of his fellow feathers had been brought out of the shed having walked in just fine. On the promise of a treat. And then ...

Categories: pickaxes, baseball,
Form: I do not know?

Viv Wigley - For Contest

...Well, what can I tell you about both my names?
I'm not quite sure where I should start,
'Vivian' means 'lively' which raises a smile
to friends of this tired old fart.
It's not very common as nam...

Categories: pickaxes,
Form: Rhyme