Shags Poems

Groundhog Day

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                           I
On the hill between Carlisle and Deep Creek
   follows a road to the Firth of the bay.
Where old friends old vices and old times seek
   and live again if only ...

Categories: shags, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Pare Wharf

...On the seawall a rocky jutting shore
  and white breasted gulls and shags flit the sky.
Yes, there was a time but not anymore
  I gazed the stars over Whenuapai.
Crazed by lunar tide and hear...

Categories: shags, memory, youth,
Form: Sonnet

Sheep And Other Animals

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I: Sheep
 (A poem about Covid)

next door to 19 chimneys
and 'the dark satanic mills'
a flock of sheep is grazing
oblivious in the hills.

...

Categories: shags, allegory, animal, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Bless My Sole

...My soles are set free when I walk in my house, 
Free once I walk through the door.
My soles are free to feel every emotion, 
When they walk all over the floor,

On the deep piles of plush, which...

Categories: shags, funny, humorous, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain

Spring of Substance

...SPRING OF SUBSTANCE


Adorable word  drawing a rainbow of substance-- SPRING
Benumb snow-white cloak that drapes the earth,
charmed by strips of  golden s...

Categories: shags, environment, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Abecedarian

After the Storm

...Father had no choice the court order was clear,
we were taken to that dark place of fear.

They took our nice clothes and gave us rags,
like children of the street dressed in shags.

Abused and beate...

Categories: shags, abuse, betrayal, childhood, confusion,
Form: Couplet

Black Poison

...Destroyer ~ Poet
Contest Name	5TH POEM ON THE SOUP..
POISON! 1st first.
I was coming up from Tamworth, riding on a tired horse. 
Past Barraba we wandered north, on a slow and...

Categories: shags, adventure, cowboy-western, horse, river,
Form: Ballad

Them~

...Them~

He walks~
He balks~

He hawks~
He squawks~

He caulks~
He stalks~

~ ~ ~  ~ ~ ~
She nags~
She wags~

She gags~
She shags~

She rags~
She sags~

Them ~...

Categories: shags, life
Form: Free verse