Rods Poems - Poems about Rods

Rods and Cones

cells in your eyes are rods and cones
rods see shapes, stars, dogs, old cell phones

cones see colors, sharp and blurry ones too
they figure out yellow and azure blue

rods and cones are both important to you
what could eyes without rods and cones do?

cones and rods, rods and cones,
add to my pleasure of creating poems

Categories: rods, eve,
Form: Rhyme

Golden Rods

aureate rods
fall's wildflower dances....
heavy truck passes

Categories: rods, nature,
Form: Haiku

Rods of Steel Will Bend

I heard the steady cadence
The drum roll in the street
A thousand tramping soldiers 
Tasting of defeat.
The sound of occupation
I thought it could not be,
A flag so full of justice
Would always flutter free.
I had dreamed a thousand dreams
And cast them to the wind
But often had forgotten
Even rods of steel will bend.
Raucous laughter melted
In the wake of

Categories: rods, dream, patriotic, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pretzel Rods

The corner candy store displayed,
On the counter next to where you paid,
Tall pretzel rods, two cents a pop,
In a glass container with a top.

They were often added to a bill – 
Toss some pretzels in, please, if you will –
Or were ordered by a kid who’d planned,
His pennies clutched in a sweaty hand.

But the best

Categories: rods, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Rods and Knees

under threat of arrest
we've spared the rod and created entitled- riotous brats

Categories: rods, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monoku

Bizarre

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An artist paints the sky
He chose golden rods in fall waved them over all
Master~high
Used robin's eggs
Filled his painter's round bucket tall
Left dregs
He laughed
At colored scrawl
Draft
An artist paints the sky
Filled his painter's round bucket tall
Draft
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Sponsor:Mohan Chutani
Contest:Let's Minichu on Bizarre
Written:09/24/2020

Categories: rods, art,
Form: Rhyme

Surrounded In a Circle of Twelve Rods-Gravitation Toward Divine Energy-

in this illusion where everything 
 is a competition
 just one of many continuations
 of our separation

 while your dreams taste like tears
 tearing through the rooted soil of your soul
 protect the seed of your spirit

 trust in yourself and grow
 remaining in the now

 reflecting 
 the prize we've won

 notice the blooming

Categories: rods, creation, imagination, life, mirror,
Form: Free verse

Legal Rods

The book of torts is the new manual for life
The law is king and
The government must always be praised

Efficient and effective parliaments
Are measured by legislative prowess
As laws multiply
So does government success
They believe only in themselves
So all is good and that is best

When friendship and cohesion should be encouraged
Suspicion and accusation is codified
In a world where

Categories: rods, political,
Form: I do not know?

Clump of Golden Rods

clump of golden rods
at edge of manicured yard...
capricious weed seed  


capricious=erratic
weed seed float on air currents
are carried by birds, etc.
erratic travel and where they
fall erratic

Categories: rods, nature,
Form: Haiku

Golden Rods of Light

Long slender fingers
golden rods of light 
Reach for flowering
foliage thirsting in 
His sight

Nature
provides the nurture
A constant supply of 
balance upon dawns
newly designed future 

Her fingers
playfully hop across
crested aqua waves
Toward apricot sands 
that reside along our
  shores unscathed

Trumpet vines 
cling to a stony ledge
Gracing the walls of
a sandy path that leads
to the water's edge

Carole Cookie

Categories: rods, imagination, inspirational, native american,
Form: Quatrain

Golden Rods

Just two weeks ago
Only green showed in field
Now golden rods wave

Categories: rods, nature
Form: Haiku

Rods Colors (By Kimmy Holmes, My Daughter)

the cigarette is always burning
your mind always turning
your bigger than most people
not too big for me
when you squint at me that way
I don't wonder what you think
I see me in living color
I see me on the brink
I wonder why you stay
I'm past my expiration
I guess you're alot like me
your here for the duration

Categories: rods, husband, me, me,
Form: ABC