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Salisbury Poems - Poems about Salisbury

Premium Member Sunrise like a poem
... I sat by a boulder, then an image grew A goddess with a pen hovered over the stone She said I'm a muse, with a mission for you To write a song titled "sunrise like a poem." I said "nothing rh......

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Categories: salisbury, art, creation, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member call everyone names
...Birthday greetings! Get out of bed. Go to the river and dunk your head. Eat crawdad dung, until you are really fed. Then crank-call your senile Uncle Johnny Fred. Go skating down the hill on an......

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Categories: salisbury, birthday,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses
...Purple Butterflies and Raindrops on Roses Open my eyes. See the window covered in tiny beads of wet. Hear the raindrops on roses that line the building. That isn't right. Why can I hear the soft ......

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Categories: salisbury, butterfly, children, evil, loss,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Weekend Warrior on a Bicycle
...I cycled to Hawthorne before the dawn, Saw a deer on Taxter Road leading a fawn. I reached a field of the kids little League. Waited for the train, too pumped for fatigue. The train passed by l......

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Categories: salisbury, adventure, nature,
Form: Lyric
The Bard Beneath the Tree
...Come Friends, from all the quarters come From mountain and from sea And harken to the ancient drum That beats at Avebury The wren that sings, the bees that hum The bard beneath the tree Come ......

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Categories: salisbury, celebration, england, friendship, happiness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Salisbury Steak
...Salisbury Steak, that horrible dish When they served it at school All cold and brown-ish Salisbury Steak, it always was cold With ghoulish potatoes If truth be told Salisbury Steak and sque......

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Categories: salisbury, appreciation, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once Upon a Time In Hong Kong
...Away the land of the flame tree blossoms Orient blown athwart a yellow moon, to hearken the far sound of dragon drums and ride a Phantom into old Kowloon. To Salisbury Road Peninsula door......

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Categories: salisbury, adventure, sports, travel,
Form: Sonnet
Consort
...My goodness, how old we both are. You, my friend, have weathered better than I. Sturdy legs, while mine are fragile; liable to betray me without warning. Rat-atat-tat I groan. The effort- for wha......

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Categories: salisbury, life,
Form: Free verse
The Joyous Partner the Microwave
...the joyous partner the microwave it has become my chef alas not quite my mother's hand but for its swiftness of foot there is no other yes i survive on the TV dinner oh dear Lord i have shown m......

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Categories: salisbury, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Independently Un-Wealthy
...Getting to know the canned goods aisle in the dollar store was fun, the ladies have been most helpful in finding Chinese knock-off junk. The Senior Center makes a passable Salisbury steak and wh......

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Categories: salisbury, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monolithic Monuments
...An ocean's depth lies between The Georgia Guidestones and England's Salisbury Plains, where Stonehenge stands. Though they appear on different continents, they share mysterious secrets that have ......

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Categories: salisbury, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Piles of Stones
...To be brutally honest, I am not inclined to be impressed With the prehistoric pile of stones on Salisbury Plain, Wilshire During four trips to England, I did not go to see the rocks. I have driven......

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Categories: salisbury, how i feel, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Where the Australians Lie
...He enlisted with his great mates And embarked with his life left to fate To Egypt and its desert sands Training hard at the Army Heads commands He was at The Landing at Gallipoli Battling the ......

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Categories: salisbury, death, remember, war, world
Form: Elegy
Praise Be To the Lord Russia Has Found a Vaccine
...Breaking news this just in, Russian medics have just discovered a vaccine or cure for Covid-19 1 sprits of Novichok 1 cup if tea laced with Polonium - 210 Followed by a weekend mini cit......

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Categories: salisbury, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh My Golly So Jolly
...I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship Blue Stones transpor......

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Categories: salisbury, christmas,
Form: Free verse

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