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Shakily Poems - Poems about Shakily

The Echo returns not
...It’s a cold December afternoon, Four-thirty, and already dusk is upon us. We walk side by side, like since forever, Up the slight incline that takes us to the top of the road, Shoes scuffling on ......

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Categories: shakily, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soup Disappearance Reason
... My known, soothing landscapes, grown from my own hues and shapes, somehow vanquished their view. Just one more sore blister of news to aid my staid mind’s gist of confused. My angered fist pun......

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Categories: shakily, bereavement, body, change, conflict,
Form: Free verse



The old fart alter cocker shuffle
...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle as one fairly long run on sentence unwittingly made locally famous courtesy residents here at Highland Manor Apartments as first one foot and then the oth......

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Categories: shakily, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Focus
...The mirror. Then stoicism. Frozen and calm. Focused. Then moving shakily. Movements, and jolting. Then I’m focused again. Moving. Calm but ready movements. Knocking on th......

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Categories: shakily, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Ascent
...Misty muted days in Scotland part before you making room for your own silence. Now Beinn Mhòr's summit is under my feet There was no spectacle, no one to shake hands with. Yet as I stood, s......

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Categories: shakily, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Desolations Boulevard Ii
...a bar door is ajar, only fading voices echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar! Here n there, trash drifts ghosts in flickering neon. Broken, floating, bloated dead down eons halls a ......

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Categories: shakily, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Youth Is Shakily Spiritual
...At Life’s Early Phase, Your feet on trembling base, It is Evil that pays And its music that plays … At life’s Incipient Stage, When one isn’t of Age, Vice A Thousand Kilos weighs Not what Th......

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Categories: shakily, child, conflict, corruption, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Haunted House
...Creeping, crawling, braying, bawling What’s that sound inside my wall? Scratching, grasping, voices rasping Through the door I shakily crawl. Heavy breathing, gasping, writhing Something grasp......

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Categories: shakily, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Anna and the French Kiss
...As I wandered about the lush lawn In the gazing ball I glimpsed A breath-taking young woman with a touch of innocence In her soulful, violet eyes. I was mesmerized by her beauty And I had to l......

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Categories: shakily, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Free verse
Visions On a Plane
...It’s a perfect day to ride a plane. Looking outside from the lounge, the air feels pristine scrubbed by rain the night before. Now the plane seems to hold its breath, heave a sigh, clutch its ......

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Categories: shakily, visionary,
Form: Blank verse
Still With Me
...I try not to crumble-- you do not see my break downs — I simply will not let you— till somehow, some way, in the cracks— unblinking insect eyes peep through. They are my own eyes and t......

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Categories: shakily, anxiety, conflict, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Curse of Conquerors Past, Part V
......To prove his point he even opened his shirt, laid bare his sternum so our blades could stab, but we were all frozen by what we’d heard, the worlds just sounded so utterly mad. He believed he......

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Categories: shakily, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Peg and Gimpy
...When Reggie was in the army He lost a leg His fellow soldiers Renamed him Peg He was extremely brave Soon forgot the pain Although without this limb He would never be the same again Jake was ......

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Categories: shakily, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Distant Shores Ii
...The gin is starting to wear off as the boat tour comes to an end Heartache sets in as I remember seeing you and your new mate I feel saddened and hurt and know we can't even remain friends Life is......

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Categories: shakily, betrayal, hurt, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Down On Me
...Crusty old oaks wave brittle arms angrily overhead, threatening to drop dead crushingly heavy limbs Down Taller trees having achieved the highest heights pine away, lonely jealously pour......

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Categories: shakily, imagination, jealousy, nature, perspective,
Form: Personification

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