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Roost Poems - Poems about Roost

Premium Member Raven's Roost
That life is a struggle, there's no denying when the distance between light and dark is just one misstep across the boundary line Problematic for mankind since time began Prompted by the reminder of crows flying I have need to heed his words in the great book There's truth there to find courage and strength Armor and shield to prepare...

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Categories: roost, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Home to Roost
I wrote about my timer, Which is permanently stuck And, after many years, at last Emitted its last cluck. That was two days ago; today A package came for me. I hadn’t ordered anything And thought, “What could it be?” A brand-new chicken timer With a message from my son: “I hope this works – it looks just like Your now non-ticking one.” I laughed out loud...

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Categories: roost, appreciation, son,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Latin Colors Roost
Flying in On blankets Shoes And Hair Copied from the land Most repeated Where I stand As a visitor to the southern lands Bird feathers Water And trees A feast...

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Categories: roost, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Roost
Would you rather be either very uncouth or untrue, When having not yet realizing whom secretly rues, While you are trying oh so hard above all else to rule the roost?...

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Categories: roost, psychological,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Gathering Storm
The political storm is gathering Election fever is at its highest pitch As Nigerians head to the polls To exercise their franchise In the mother of all elections The most crucial ever Since the birthing of uninterrupted Democracy in our dear father land This would be an election like no other Coming at a time Nigerians Have their backs to the...

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Categories: roost, allusion, encouraging, evil, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Riding the Roost
Some call me prolific I call me obsessed Some say I'm a kook I say I'm blessed It's all that I think of Poems from the heart But silly damn nonsense Is still my main art Takes the same effort To make people laugh As it does to depress them To make you gasp So this here is me Just little old me A happy old duffer Filled with much...

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Categories: roost, life,
Form: Free verse
Microlight
Microlight When they appeared, we were like, “What …the?” motorcycles dangling from multi-coloured wings, animated comic book scene blond wisps racing at leisure in deliberate mid-morning breeze rainbow spectrum gone haywire, in the azure June sky they were flaunting metallics, Kariba breams in fish eagle talons. They hovered above, the whole school was set in a frenzy nerds set books aside, watched...

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Categories: roost, africa, change, culture, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Came Home To Roost
he told me i was crass he told me i was trash he told me i had no fire he told me he was tired he told me he was leaving me for her perched on the window of my empty lair with a half sneer parked on my dry lips i watched their cute garden wedding as they strolled on...

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Categories: roost, betrayal, break up, irony,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rooster
Rooster ~ Pecks the dust, raising Particles, pebbles Earth. Hen ~ Comes around Roosts with him. Paint a Picture Poetry Contest (7 lines) Sponsor: Joseph May September 22, 2020...

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Categories: roost, animal, bird, earth, easter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fox Is In the Hen House
There is an expression "when the chickens come home to roost" and our current pandemic is revealing these raw truths. Did we let a rooster in the hen house? Did he keep us safe? Does his presence keep us vulnerable and on our nerves grate? Perhaps we "let a fox guard the hen house", a...

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Categories: roost, 1st grade,
Form: Political Verse
Sunny Sparrow Roost
While whittling away, Household tasks today, Sparrows peacefully perched by my window, Sunning on golden Cyprus, as they will tomorrow. Betwixt bird feeder flights, They absorb warmth of sunlight, Until seed needs lead to silly squabbles, Luckily the extent of their troubles. Back and forth the tiny flock follows its leader. A chilly day makes them eager. Lo, one perches on the window ledge, Peeking inside...

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Categories: roost, bird, life,
Form: Sonnet
Roost
Yo chickens coming home to roost bitches While you went south stealing their riches One hundred years you plundered While putting South America asunder Copper Silver and Gold Polluting the land while you stole Aluminum and Iron Ore Thousands of death if you re keeping score Now the poverty is wrecking havoc on their society While you scorn their misery Crying about the...

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Categories: roost, political, prejudice,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member He Who Rules the Roost
HE WHO RULES THE ROOST toddler holds the clock reveille at five o’clock before the cock crows 6/13/2017...

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Categories: roost, good morning,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member On the Vulture's Roost
Vulture; brazen carnivore, perched high atop the tree waiting, just waiting, to swoop down for his opportunity to pick the bones of something or someone he wishes dead and all the while he roosts and waits for his daily bread. Nasty black-eyed bird of prey, your ego is fat with bloat. Hide your cause beneath your claws, on yourself...

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Categories: roost, image,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where the Owls Roost, the Moon Shines Brightest
Where The Owls Roost, The Moon Shines Brightest Where the owls roost, the moon shines bright The old withered oak stands beaten and proud Scars, proud medals of its strength and might night owls hooting , often not so very loud Where the moonlight streams onto life below Seas move with that mighty Titan's commands In wonder, the earth watches the light...

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Categories: roost, beautiful, celebration, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

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