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Platters Poems - Poems about Platters

Premium Member maternal mermaid
...life ~ a marine carousel of soul-cracks an odyssey of thorns and memories, a reverie of regrets and roses. and I a mere spectator of my own circus~ I remin......

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Categories: platters, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
A Flower Vase on Top of a Piano
...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger. She teases out a tune as we both try to hum along with swirling keys her fingers drum. The naturals a......

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Categories: platters, insect, music,
Form: Rhyme



Be Set Free
..."Be Set Free" Oh The wonders that thrive inside my mind Anyone doubting me, I will leave far behind Come along I promise you an adventure Happiness is the only well known fixture Every mea......

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Categories: platters, books, education, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Real Christmas
...The Real Christmas From Black Friday to Christmas Eve, presents to purchase and wrap. Office and family parties, visits to relatives platters of food and gallons of alcohol. Trees dressed t......

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Categories: platters, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Speak
...“I Am as I Am complete Though ego opines otherwise Invoking grace we feel God’s heartbeat  What else does there remain for us to realise” Unseeking Seeker When the......

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Categories: platters, perspective, silence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: The Family Spratt
...Mrs. Spratt was exceedingly fat, Hubby Jack was as lean as a bone. They both relished each meal With a great deal of zeal And even licked platters clean When the eating was done. Though not fru......

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Categories: platters, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Modern Version Psalm 23
... My dishwasher is mine; It serves me well. It makes glassware beam high with prisms of delight: forks sing praises minus grit between their prongs. It combats the scorche......

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Categories: platters, appreciation, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rise And Fall
...inspired by The Platters song, ‘Ebb Tide’ Rise And Fall Salty tears ebbing away on moon’s tide as whispered love echoes on ocean waves across caramel sands w......

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Categories: platters, beach, romance, sea,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Precious Moments
...“I don’t have to ponder my precious moments that always give me heart to carry on. So firmly implanted in my heart, I will never let them go, never will they be gone.” The Poet Memories of : As......

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Categories: platters, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Prayer
...“My prayer is to linger with you-” our hearts, with strong beats keeping time. Our minds upon paths we proved true- souls melded with spirit sublime. “Tonight, while our hearts are......

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Categories: platters, poems, song, word play,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Making Tea
...It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after overwhelming luminous glare fainted a somewhat true-to-life footpath in a back of structured quai......

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Categories: platters, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Palatable Conversations at Night
...We, with the geometry and evening balance of our midcentury hands—gently lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a nightly ritual, gravity-driven, habit built over time, the g......

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Categories: platters, extended metaphor,
Form: Concrete
Halloween Goods
...The Home Goods store sells things you need And many things you don’t. Some people buy both types of things, But others simply won’t. Their Halloween collection Is immense and so much fun, Wit......

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Categories: platters, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
WE GOBBLED GOATS CHEESE
...WE GOBBLE GOAT’S CHEESE Scales of justice weighed in gold and coal cherubs and demons cheer without fear horns blow, rooms gather fat Coaxing a grey Persian cat climb stairs of glamour ......

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Categories: platters, anxiety, cat, conflict, dark,
Form: Alliteration
A Holiday Dinner
...For a holiday dinner, tradition’s in charge Of the menu, the guests and the place, With old favorites appearing as well as a few New additions the crowd might embrace. Once the table is set and......

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Categories: platters, family, food, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

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