Railing Poems

Blank episode

...I was lost after a night out and
couldn't unlock the screen for directions

you walked to the pub you can't be far just
ease yourself over this railing and
slide down the wall so you can take a
...

Pareidolia

...It was all about a grim,
Foggy, smoggy, old Thursday night
In Hithergreen,
London’s belching south,
Below Europe’s icy, dark trees and
In the silence of grieving mornings . . .
Bulbous clouds b...

Staircase

...(For Nette Onclaud's "Visions of a Vignette 2" contest) 
(dated 23.06.2025) 


I climb
spiraling steps
with gold railing, 
huge stairs reaching heaven, 
(like angels in Jacob's dr...

Flickering Fate

...Core of ancient planets where the outback grows a-wild;
Wind atop the atoll high, hearken to thy child!
Desert flower, where is love? Where is grace for me?
Someone get me God above! Fate and fanc...

Spider Dance

...I feel a slight touch on my arm and look down
and………….it’s a spider
Despite the heavy circumstances in my life and a
migraine weighing me down
I fly to my feet and spin around trying to dislodge
...

the bridge

...the bridge

In the middle of the bridge, we leaned on its railing
 and looked into the slimy, green, and slow
 running stream. Its bank, decorated with plastic bottles,
 used condoms, a long-sin...

Falling

...“Come here”
You said, gesturing to the sunset.

I climbed up beside you, my legs dangling over the edge of the railing.
My breath sped up as you put your hand on my back
The thumping of my heart...

Fishing

...
We set off full of hope into the night
as it grew blacker towards the end 
of the jetty where shorelights
dimmed to a distant glow. 
Wind drove a swell to boom 
and crash against the pylons be...

the worst of cures

...The worst of cures

He had bought a flat in a new apartment bloc still not ready for the buyers, but since it was Sunday, he drove to the building to have a look risky surgery and worried he might ...

Connie's Fantasy Is Full Of Bull

...In my deepest fantasies Poetry Contest
Anoucheka Gangabissoon


I'm at a bar drinking a beer
When all my inhibitions disappear
My eyes dance at all the men
So robust and vibrant, like bulls in...

Little Beige Gecko

...Romance in Nature is filled with dancing and singing, and a little color. 
~ Poet

A sprightly creature shares my home.
Little beige gecko, oft times green,
regards my ...

Black Ice

...It gets into all the machines
and freezes up the works,
it coats the sidewalks and front steps,
and slipping on it hurts.
It sheens the railing so that when
you grab them gloves get wet,
it lay...

he broke me

...(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school)

What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark.

Earlier, at school...

...

The Old Mans Sorrows

...You walk around with a weapon in your mouth demoralizing the women as you walk about; you have set a dangerous tone in the town, and it has caused the people to live in doubt. You have cause chaos ev...

sneaky squirrel

...climbs up porch railing 
sets on air conditioner 
peaks in through window...

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