Pith Poems - Poems about Pith

... Written: April 25, 2024, For Sara Kendrick Mirror Contest Rumi Quote 4: " The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected" ......Read the rest...

...Convalescence of Richard McGeehan Spouse of my eldest sister marital bond fixed in place strong as mortise and tenon, he hales of hearty Irish stock genes of said septuagenarian analogous to ......Read the rest...

... seventeen years we went before I knew your friends names you barely know now and you kept them absent from me as you keep yourself still, so leave stay cradle-tucked away as a soothing, sour ......Read the rest...

...From all the sorrow veiling this pith of Fire, From all the greyness obscuring our martyr, To all the shame Creations’ breathing satire, Man, what do you hope, you liar? What do you dream? What......Read the rest...

...In every apple, an atom resides; in every Adam, an apple abides. So it goes and goes, apples toppling off tables in rhythmic waves, falling through slits, convincing themselves they are......Read the rest...

... A curled-dry orange peel, all that stands against gray dark lips of gaping hole, whose eye can steal your form, or lift your full bankroll. A curled-dry orange peel, hanging pith on the ......Read the rest...

...The windfalls have been trod and gnawed upon. A sweet sludge of pith is spread across a ripe carpet of cider scented soil. Here in late autumn, an amber painted orchard is the heady mulch of......Read the rest...

...Pith is pithier than pithy -it’s not a question of if. You know atoms are tiny when you get at ‘em. Sometimes they’re the point. Meanings have layers like lasagna. Two or three should suffice.......Read the rest...

...The apartment leaks footsteps, it’s hard to avoid their featherweight padding. Fabric and pith teach walls how to speak; fragmented recordings that always threaten to utter something intellig......Read the rest...

... Night in the night Darkness in darkness We are in the pith. Hunting each other is approved . We suffer, two trapped snakes! Tossing and turning in the core In search of love.......Read the rest...

...I'm an artist without a muse to capture Painting with no brush or sense of the soul Sparking fire without a fuse or ember Still I perceive a portrait that's whole I'm an actor without the line......Read the rest...

...Written: October 30, 2023, ______________________________________ When the sunlight rays dawning to decay Within the scenic shade of the tall trees, Foster felicity flows for......Read the rest...

...On one of the myriad bays along the Maine coast. Keep the holocaust at bay I said to Dave because you’ll spend all day gathering 2,000 calories and still be miserable hungry. An undiminished pop......Read the rest...

...Cypress trees like evergreen steeples rise above rows of gravestone woes, their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties across writhing paths banded like snakes; the gravel birth cords sinuo......Read the rest...

...Tirelessly tapping the ecliptic elixir of modernity the marionette hurls pebbles at minarets The rot of this wretched wine vivified his rapturous pith platting the tombs of his sodden salience ......Read the rest...