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Prefers Poems - Poems about Prefers

I am the girl who loves too much
...I am the girl who loves too much. The one who bakes brownies instead of saying, "I miss you," because sometimes sugar feels safer than truth. The one who writes long birthday cards and sends pos......

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Categories: prefers, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
Soothie
...Sostenuto Treble and Bass strings were Replaced pianissimo she loved a soft soothing sound We rathered it more......

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Categories: prefers, fashion, film, music,
Form: Alliteration



Nebulous Horizon
... I told the truth and still, someone bled. Silence would have stitched us shut, a delicate, rose-gold lie— woven into the wallpaper of a bedroom left sketched. I thought I was choosing clari......

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Categories: prefers, fate, feelings, leaving, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Aesthete
... The human body may be a marvel, yet the aesthete prefers his were marble or gold or some other precious metal with a life approaching to eternal! For flesh and blood fail miserably as a ho......

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Categories: prefers, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Road to heaven
...Drop a plumb line from crown to root This corresponds to the central vein Staff of power, the rod of initiation For pure childlike hearts free from stain Divine magnetism prefers this route I......

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Categories: prefers, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member JUNCO
... Junco in winter flies on grass tip, rides on field to pick fallen seeds, prefers in taking shelter roosting on conifer tree. ......

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Categories: prefers, appreciation, bird,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Subs v Dubs
...In the debate between dubbing and subbing I side with subs to savor the original mellifluous French, Tamil, Korean, Italian... Reading the subtitles assists the deaf and hard of hearing althou......

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Categories: prefers, film, french, international, language,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rare Bird
...In hindsight I can note a master stroke A revelation from somebody out there My soul’s salvation could have been a joke A sad man’s joke, that anyone can share That’s why it looks so truthful, th......

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Categories: prefers, i love you, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One day the lion will walk through the door and grab my tired and old arm
...One day the lion will walk through the door and grab my tired and old arm, My wrinkled arm, the one with which I threw the dice in the game of my life, And I will scream in the bedroom, understandi......

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Categories: prefers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR EXISTING
...All those who chatter behind my back only confirm that I'm moving forward. I don’t slow down— their criticism, their slander is my fuel. Disguised applause from those who never had the guts to wa......

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Categories: prefers, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations I
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I An unbending tree breaks easily. —Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Nothing is weaker or gentler than water, yet nothing can prevai......

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Categories: prefers, fish, heaven, men, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To speak the truth in a world woven with lies is to set yourself on fire like a torch
...To speak the truth in a world woven with lies is to set yourself on fire like a torch, Just to prove you were never made of wax melted under absent gazes, They praise polite silence, mute nods, and......

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Categories: prefers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cheating Man
...(Inspired by Stevie Wonder’s “Part-time Lover”) The cheating man believes he is so clever. He makes up lame excuses to go and see his mistress, yet he does not want to sever his marriage, for n......

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Categories: prefers, men,
Form: Sonnet
Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal feted as savior incarnate
...Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal fêted as savior incarnate... Courtesy a plethora of marriageable females dogging, hounding, and lowing the living daylights forcing yours truly to go underco......

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Categories: prefers, absence, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
like the father the son
...Like the father, the son He is a lovable rough, the father of a famous son who keeps us guessing what the hell he is up to next, a father who is a buccaneer, sails the deep sea, and fears not the te......

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Categories: prefers, allusion, america, beach,
Form: ABC

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