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Railings Poems - Poems about Railings

Oh, How I Love the Sea
...When I was a kid, I only knew the sea from a distance— from the deck of a ship, sailing from Manila to Bacolod. I’d lean against the railings, watching the water stretch limitless, wondering wh......

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Categories: railings, memory, nature, nostalgia, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member unhappy mud daubers
...no more porch railings mud daubers are unhappy seasonal home gone......

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Categories: railings, animal,
Form: Haiku



The Noise Here is Too Quiet
...The city speaks in static not loud, not soft, just indifferent. It hums beneath the sky's neon bruise, where overpasses arc like broken spines above rivers of unmoving faces. I wait for nothi......

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Categories: railings, silence, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Departures
... I watch it slowly leave the river and enter the Bay, its bow parting the calm with an efficient quiet. Another hour and the ship will be cutting through the swells of the open sea. Men in......

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Categories: railings, family, goodbye, sea, voyage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boundaries of Humanity
...The road that we all follow, in the pursuit of mankind, Often leads to more questions, that need to be defined. It's a journey that we seek, even if it is only to find. Allowing us to se......

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Categories: railings, humanity,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member porch renovation confuses mud dauber
...frenzied mud dauber porch railings are no longer we are the killers he bores hole in post angry about the railings what will they call home will he sound alarm will army wasps come to figh......

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Categories: railings, animal,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Rosy Granny Magic Glasses
...I walked along route 58 There was Mumbai dreams and Harbor Freight A hippie guy sold sunglasses from a stall One had a rosy tint, I paid 5 dollars, that was all. There was a warning label with it......

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Categories: railings, allegory, crazy, emotions, extended
Form: Lyric
I Can No Longer Fight You
... {“You can’t fight for what’s left in you, You cannot fight against the waging war that disrupts within you. You can’t be against it, it was fulfilled with nature, the nature of you with every i......

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Categories: railings, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member porch has a facelift
...The porch looks great She has had a complete face lift The old rickety rack stuff is gone New space opens up to a larger landscape I am enjoying my yard for the first time No railings, which alw......

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Categories: railings, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are We Safer Now
...Joy in mourning opens this new eye day. Am I OK? Healthy? Compromised yet survive able air inhaling "Death, tonight, or some tomorrow, my life's inevitable closed, no longer curious,......

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Categories: railings, dark, death, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
finding freedom in death
...Freedom calls out to me, just over the railings. Freedom dances, just out of reach Freedom sings, ”Abandon your jailer, abandon Life Abandon your duty, abandon Life, Jump over the railings, a......

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Categories: railings, angst, dark, depression, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Deep Moments
... The shadow I cast on the corridor wall Covers my father’s radiant photo frame Night’s transcripts are saved on the iron chest Stacking the secrets tied in bundles Apologies are like ince......

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Categories: railings, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dust in the Breeze
...There I leaned against the iron railings of the high ridge overlooking the bustling port, where a large ship hooted its loud warning, It was waiting to depart to far-off lands. My love was sure......

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Categories: railings, farewell, love,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To Secondary School
...The teachers’ voices were loud and shrill, but there was just one message, “everyone sit still!”, though it was hard on the parquet floor, in polyester trousers, bought the week before, the fir......

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Categories: railings, change, childhood, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sturdy
...she tasted of honey, dew Her worth is more than gold bricks her essence smells of lavender and merit fond railings ever pleasant dreams......

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Categories: railings, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

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