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Pumice Poems - Poems about Pumice

Premium Member Beautiful Mammoth Mountain Memories
...Drinking from clear, gurgling streams, catching frogs, unfolding dreams, without iPhones, watches or clocks, sitting high on granite rocks - my memory is unwinding a young boy exploring and fin......

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Categories: pumice, beautiful, childhood, memory, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Pompeii
... He appeared out of nowhere and convinced me to sit with him for a drink. His eyes were wide and glistening, his brow - of the knowledge within. I asked him his name and where he had been living......

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Categories: pumice, death, fate, fear, for
Form: Free verse



CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS
...CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS Catullus LXXXV: 'Odi et Amo' loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. I hate. I love. You ask, 'Why not refrain?' I wish I could explain. I can't, ......

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Categories: pumice, books, boy, god, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Grab Bag Poems
...Grab Bag Poems and Epigrams POEMS Less Heroic Couplets: Dark Cloud, Silver Lining, Dupes from “Love in the Time of the Coronavirus” by Michael R. Burch Every corona has a silver lining: I......

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Categories: pumice, allegory, america, analogy, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Problem-Solution
...Oh crap they taste bad like old spit I cleaned them with pumice and grit With extra effort they don’t fit Maybe they are bent too How about your’s, are they perfect? Check twice, imperfect I......

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Categories: pumice, sad,
Form: Verse



As Broken As a Petal In Your Hand
...I didn't think anyone would ever argue that I am broken Life has thrown up one too many challenges to me I survived but I suppose i am more like magma from Volcano I am like molten rock that's be......

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Categories: pumice, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone below a great fish Maui snared, and his brothers half-crazed behaving leapt and gouged in frenzy craving. From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga (departing p......

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Categories: pumice, home,
Form: Rhyme
The Masked Extruder
...Sandbagged the walls to insulate sound Mercy Oh humbled men who are mercy Bound trumpeted muses amongest the fray wine drunked night a sun filled day Extrudtions of evening past Scoria pumic......

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Categories: pumice, beautiful, environment, film, home,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member One Acre Island
...sorry I have to abandon you because your toxicity level has reached an all time high.. the inability for you to acknowledge and accept that people have differing opinions ... your whole life y......

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Categories: pumice, abuse, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Igneous
...Igneous rock Geological role Puck or pumice Sleazy plays The tone Keep your hands clean Dig in your own dirt......

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Categories: pumice, anger,
Form: Free verse
Someone
...Angifi Dladla There is Someone, or a presence, I am not sure; but I feel it driving me – a voiceless passenger, in cycles. Sure of my way, I sometimes feel like changing track as if th......

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Categories: pumice, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
When Stardust Spills
...More precious than crystalline trances are singular experiences flicking on my mind, a spill of alabaster, chrome and pumice-like moments with you flow back- In rampage and elation I wan......

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Categories: pumice, for her, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man Eating Flower
... "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin “Man Eating Flower” Voluptuo......

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Categories: pumice, identity, imagery, psychological, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Ineluctable
...under this gray suburban sky if my heart will be made of stone I swear, it will be pumice stone it will float over resentment and disaffection over boredom and illusion over anger and incompre......

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Categories: pumice, allegory, analogy, blue, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sleeping Volcano
...Sleeping volcano Volcano in slumber state, now at rest seems inert inactive, but can erupt at any moment becoming reactive, even may act instantaneous, spontaneous. ......

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Categories: pumice, 8th grade, how i
Form: Free verse

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