Shears Poems - Poems about Shears

...Nature's flower runs through my fears, Her old seasons there interceding On the silver gray blunt of the shears, Where the stem—sharpened by night—is keeping For the day's rain starving in the cl......Read the rest...

...It took a little while Through blood stained tears, Through mile upon mile; His gut lined shears. My eyes once shined With love so graced; My eyelids lined, My heartbeat raced. But now I ......Read the rest...

...You say you need a strong foundation, my friend? On a god or guru, you cannot depend. It is empty and false, and I beg your pard, But, it will all fall down just like a house of cards. Don’t......Read the rest...

...The Maker : Knit and Purl The Maker wields the needles of predestination and free will, One in each strong, talented hand. Knitting the yarn and thread of our lives Into the fabric of time......Read the rest...

...A cage of sweet burning fire gold Hung on night's swinging shears— A golden flame still a twin so In Orion's wordless mouth, Its romance by dark christened By rain; she's been cut out Glist......Read the rest...

... Ancient arts so intriguing hieroglyphs, cave drawings Stone flints at end of spears two combined, a pair of shears Primitive though, their communication the imperiled art......Read the rest...

..."A straight! Two-three, five-six and eight," but Mildred bleated, "Ain't no straight; you, Alice-ewe, are one dumb rump." Bright chortles burbled round the stump till Jingles raised, "Two straws......Read the rest...

... Written: February 11, 2024 ______________________________________ Features: fugacious fascinating beat I saw smoke, but no flames in sight I caught a cynosure o......Read the rest...

...Wind, the Barber, shears the trees decisively with naught but his own Fall design in mind, Refusing imaged glass for his reluctant clientele, insisting they trust his......Read the rest...

...“That body is female!”, they tell me. At the turn of the moon It purges itself of its sins, Washing away what lives could have been, Punished for failing biological duties. “That body is femal......Read the rest...

...A raw red crater of hunger; the clacking tongue a buckram spear shaken at all comers. The gulls mouth is the gull, the gullet is the gull the torso, the snowy pale blue plumage, that dark und......Read the rest...

...neath the tree sat a norn one of three, shears in hand crowned in nature’s floral fare and wisps of ancient silvered hair she has no care of god or man no interest in some scriptured plan ......Read the rest...

...Ushering in the winter, auburn autumn is gone, the feathers of snow dance with the arctic wind, blowing piercingly across the blanched lawn where bare trees stand defoliated and thinned. A squa......Read the rest...

..."A Rational Intelligence necessarily precedes empathy." -- Elementary Logic for lovers of fauna, not flora (or even fungi) * * * Have you no empathy? How can you laugh? T......Read the rest...

...pernicious weeds a metaphor for wild growth inside my mind and soul dandelion mating with brambles wild cats’ rampant Rubus grinding teeth and thorns reason guides the trowel for emotion......Read the rest...