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Ricochets Poems - Poems about Ricochets

Premium Member Nebulous Horizon
...I gaze beyond the phasing face of the nebulous horizon, searching in clamorous silence for a hypnotic glimpse of your poetic sparks ~ lost, placed within the kohl-dust of dreariness dr......

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Categories: ricochets, angst, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Modern Poet's Pinball Machine
... Roll up to the amusement arcade. Behold all the video games you can play - Dodgem car driving games, smash-'em-up derbies. Claw-crane lunge-and-snag-a-toy games, Pop-a-shot in basketball hoops,......

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Categories: ricochets, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Fulcrum of a Rose
...The crescent ~ half awake, yet wholly aware, like the essence of my presence ~ drowsy and divine ~ glowing in golden hues is the mentor leading me through scented silence. I am the thorn......

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Categories: ricochets, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The darkened sky stole my Tears
..."The darkened sky stole my tears," replaced the heat of hurt with jewels, specks of lunar-glazed silver dust, to see me sip rose-wine reveries of midnight, where procrastinated promis......

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Categories: ricochets, dream, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It is to be
...Staring into the stratospheric abyss Cumulus clouds swiftly drift along. As I stand at a dusty precipice, The white-hot heat of the sun beating down, Microscopic gravel crunches beneat......

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Categories: ricochets, dark, emotions, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Memento on the moon
... Leave the ground to fly upward forever a quintillion atoms blasting astray It’s April 20, Crack open an Easter egg be careful not to drop, if a Fabergé Celebrate Apollo 16, NASA’s high poin......

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Categories: ricochets, meaningful, moon, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
Forced Rhymes
...A whiff of my kitchen, a medicinal pill, the side order of rain drools at a windowsill. An utterance precedes a service; the rumble, the window slides itself shut. A bumble bee ricochets off a ......

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Categories: ricochets, anxiety, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Picasso Paradox
... my mind is an abstract vase, adorned with crystal gold lines~  from pixelated pearls homing whimsical wishes                and blue-rose reve......

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Categories: ricochets, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Echoes of the Silent Shore
... "L o v e lives in the archaic abyss of an endless ocean, where wind and waves rhyme with the blues in scented stillness" As ec......

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Categories: ricochets, love, romance,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member set for life
... set for life to be a success takes an element of luck a big sledgehammer fortuitous r......

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Categories: ricochets, irony, life, perspective,
Form: Tanka
The Atlantic, I’m Pathetic With Spurring Emotions But So Are You
...{“The salty ocean splashes and smears against my knees and I cannot help but mistake it for the bleeding of my heart they tarnished and flashed open. From the cool air that shafts within the breeze, ......

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Categories: ricochets, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Coming Kiss
...A-rush In a feather ruffling frenzy cooling the flamboyant sunrise muffling the warblers with waffling winds chilling the audience in an ice-like stare your shivery essence ricochets throug......

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Categories: ricochets, december,
Form: Free verse
The Lights
...I am going to see the lights. The glow of the city will make a perfect backdrop to the painting I am envisioning. Far enough away to see the twinkle of headlights and the shine of skyscrapers, but ......

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Categories: ricochets, anger, depression, emotions, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the labyrinth of bone-like thoughts, where the echo of pain ricochets madly
...In the labyrinth of bone-like thoughts, where the echo of pain ricochets madly, I desperately seek a prosthesis for my soul, maimed by life and disappointments. Where is the cosmic workshop that fo......

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Categories: ricochets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
What happened to my sex drive?
...What happened to my sex drive? (sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of -- Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone). Once pronounced libido of mine took kamikaze nose dive, ......

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Categories: ricochets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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