Plexiglas Poems | Examples


Bus Stop

Three walls of plexiglas enclosed a trashcan and a wooden bench.
As streetlights sharpened shadows grim, the shelter seemed to welcome me.
I heard rough snoring as he dozed and smelled his alcoholic stench.
I didn’t want to waken him while waiting for the Number Three.

Though sheltered from the autumn breeze I felt a quivering of fright.
Would I be safer in the cold? I tried to think what I should do.
He sat up with a cough and wheeze as I retreated to the light,
my shivering now uncontrolled. What if I left, would he pursue?

I dithered a few moments more—the bus stopped as its air brakes hissed.
It felt so bright and warm inside, although my heart still beat quite fast.
I’d never been so scared before; a fear I finally dismissed
as I continued on my ride. Relaxing, I felt safe at last.
Categories: plexiglas, autumn, fear, night,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDriving Through Jungles Under the Mars Sea

Immodest mouse (though sheepishly I drive):
Cheese-poof ambition traps shred Plexiglas; 
Life’s tint is circus; freaks pedaling thrive;
My spinner’s stopped, feline-stripped out of gas.

Cradled in moon’s ambitious pseudo-shine,
Not that I could, see I’ve nowhere to go;
Clawed dizzy by stars she hangs as a shrine,
Marathons end; unfinished lines won’t glow.

Out of fuel.  Out of road.  Locked out of car,
Stained trips on oil-leaks cadaverous spilt;
Climbing the gallows I’ll soon be a star,
Thumb-tacked eternal; pierce sharp lunar guilt.

As I ascend, I wink once at the moon
 Just to remind her - she’ll come down real soon.
Categories: plexiglas, divorce,
Form: Sonnet


Premium MemberDoors: Psycho-History 101

Doors: Psycho-history 101
             by Odin Roark

Doors absorb history
Whether by knocks
Slams
Shuts
Or slides
Doors have felt it all


Boulder
Metal
Wood
Plexiglas
Steel bars
Making different walls
Fences
Entrances
Exits

We are the users

Without us
There’d be no need for doors
Animals would run free
Without us 
Nature’s light would permeate
Without mediation
Without welcome mats needed

How oximoronic this structure
To keep out
To keep in
Because we can’t handle what…?

The innate hard-wired thing called right and wrong choice?

Perhaps

Some would argue we are victims of circumstances

Ever take notice of the happenstance
Making up the most inventive
Resourceful 
And permanent life on earth

Those pesky ants
Roaches
Rats
And lest we forget
The tribal depths of the Amazon
Where doors don’t exist
Where the uncivilized
Understanding of psycho-history 101
Grins no memory loss

Maybe something to think about
Next time you confront a wall
Without doors
Ask how you’d survive
Categories: plexiglas, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAbyss

He stood at the edge of his lost dreams.
Tears like waterfalls fell in streams.
Looking down into the abyss.
Could his life turn out worse than this?

He had been told that dreams come true.
Sure some did but way too few.
Instead of a cloudy sky he wanted blue.
He wanted seventy and only got two

His crystal palace made of plexiglas 
He wanted first place and settled for last
A teachers pet locked inside the class
His life winding down unraveling fast

He throws himself into the abyss
Dreams to nightmares his lover's kiss
He gave up too soon he lost his bliss
Life does not get much worse than this

Life makes no promises we know that's true
Some things are not up to me or you
So take the gifts that come your way
To get your dreams you need to stay
Categories: plexiglas, suicide,
Form: Rhyme

Prayers For C.J.W.

Bars on		loved ones		Addiction
the    .		can only		beckons
windows,		wonder if		for one
if there is		he is safe		more hit
a window		while      .		one more
at all.		incarcerated.	draw to fill
Visitors		Hoping		the soul
for only		the      .		and cloud
thirty   .		sentence		the mind
minutes		will be		of
per week,		reduced		personal
viewed		over time.		demons.
through a		Horrors of		Rehabilitation
Plexiglas		mistreatment	to be a
peep    .		fills our		fine
show and		minds		citizen is
converse		though		a pipe
through an	                praying for .		dream.
electronic		salvation		Mama
device. No		and a		cries and
physical		changed		hopes for
family		heart.		a better
contact till		Addiction		tomorrow.
the sentence	beckons		Healing for
is served.		its prey 		her son
Categories: plexiglas, dedication
Form: Shape


The Bed

Large enough for two
Big enough to unfold within
Spread out like a starfish
Stiffened by the shore
A sign, a name
A warning to come

The bed is old and dead
The springs used to b-beat
The stuffing around the underside
But now they stay silent
As you collapse within and 
Perish the thought
You are quite alone

A reserved sign upon the left
A do not disturb and a rosary
A Plexiglas frame, for we have neighbours now
We are landlocked, no ankle can spread across the
Border, so clear; clear enough to see as 
We place our reservations and keep 
Safely to our sides, two states of being
And a bed dissected into two with a Plexiglas wound
Categories: plexiglas,
Form: Free verse
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