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Roughen Poems - Poems about Roughen

Cobblestone

...
Rubbed smooth and round in river slides ~
Cobbles jumbled - roughen stone-road rides...

Categories: roughen, river, travel,
Form: Crystalline

Old Green Bottle

...Get drunk oh bottle
dance through the market Square
Covering your shame with linens of lies
a repulse and comic act
While  easing  into the saucer 

Get drunk oh bottle
beat ember of tired fla...

Categories: roughen, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Sevenbits--Nature

...Thunder growls beneath  fired sky
Crackling its way down  street wires
As booms pound on our ceiling.

Forceful winds roughen wheezed  noise
In a pitch quite deafening
While we  huddle toge...

Categories: roughen, nature, silence, wind,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Sand Box - I'M Confused

...What is a sand box? I'm getting confused
A hydra of meanings that's much overused

A Soviet missile that goes very fast
A hollow shaped mold - hot metal to cast

When building an arch to empty ...

Categories: roughen, funny, word play, words,
Form: Verse

Lament of My Life

...My funeral cortege has reached its destination
I see the serious visages of many,
And sniffs from the hearts of my cherished few.

My soul has a quick run through of my deeds 
Pride that I loved...

Categories: roughen, abuse, death, husband, journey,
Form: Free verse

Perennial Art

...She wrote,

         Live with enduring trust and hope.
         Your angel will always light your way.

I have lived and endured
Absent of trust, a Love beyond me,
As she has lived
...

Categories: roughen, loneliness, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

French Bistros

...Crackling like lightning the scent of rainy sundays and sweaty youth enters my lungs like undesired medication

foot steps and introduction of generations and blood lines fills my head like crazy f...

Categories: roughen, absence, anger, august, autumn,
Form: ABC

Bent Penny

...Sun shines bright on the happy bride
Walking slowly, on the arm of dad
To the back door of the church
Preparing for the grand entrance
Waiting for the march of the organ
All in white, seed alrea...

Categories: roughen, change,
Form: Prose Poetry

Optimistic

...Optimistic


Being alive is war
We often pray not to die young
Yet battle up battle
We live our lives in destitution
We stretch arm to feed
Yet we are part of the globe
We unable to sleep
I...

Categories: roughen, abuse, adventure, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Life - Reprise

...The dawn is near
The sun is almost setting  
And darkness, soon be scattered
No matter how you try to stop it, it will come to pass

The colorful world we once knew
No matter how colorful it is...

Categories: roughen, life,
Form: Free verse

Caution

...You'll cry a pond or the ocean,
but who will care?
The one and only, plucky motion
I should've dare.

It's really hard to recover 
from the fever.
'In any case don't let it govern
the gravity lever!'...

Categories: roughen, allegory, courage, dream, forgiveness,
Form: Verse

The American Dream

...Just old me,

all that I could take,

only they can see,

roughen and hangin,

my blood is on my knee,

a prayin to my lord,

a singin like a bee,

a prayer for my lady,

i won't be c...

Categories: roughen, anniversary, courage,
Form: ABC

Honor

...A beautiful word, like sex 
on stick and bears no guilt, 
is the sure epitome of 
my blood and not of my belly

Not to omit the brevity 
of its syllable, oft sounding on 
my breath, I till it ...

Categories: roughen, on writing and words
Form: Lyric