Shopworn Poems - Poems about Shopworn

...I remember the day you borrowed my pain “Take it,” I told you no need to explain It’s shopworn and battered each scar duly earned Its weight a true burden of prophecy spurned Then when yo......Read the rest...

...Shameless shady shepherd Sherlock shushed shoeless Sherman so surely shabby sharp-eyes Sheila shellacked sheep-headed Sherlock Shaken shallow Sharon shadowed shapely shipwrecked Sheila Shadow-man ......Read the rest...

...A Simple Story Little child finds upon a heap of rubbish Favored threadbare rabbit of tawny velveteen One eye missing Cloth rubbed to shiny by little hands. Beloved bunny, Shopworn keepsa......Read the rest...

...Four Cafes Winter mists swirl up from puddles on the cobblestones blurring the names of the four cafes facing the narrow boulevard. Townspeople and visitors walk briskly with their heads down, co......Read the rest...

...Spring Beauty and the Beast Tenderly Spring sends harbingers of beauty, Knights errant of crocus and snowdrops, To warm winter’s shopworn heart And soothe his brittle bones of barren boughs W......Read the rest...

...Hope forewarned Such was Jeremiah's call: Go, tell my people what I'm going to do; Know that they will not listen to you. Hope forlorn determining the odds on a bet: You choose this or ......Read the rest...

...Forty years shopworn yet still taut, the past a seamstress rare Her words reknitted, stitched and purled —to dress a future bare (Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)......Read the rest...

...Lined face and hands of leather Her body punished by blazing-hot weather She'd worked the fields for 50-plus years Her energy drained, along with the swamps ~For the kibbutz whose ide......Read the rest...

...Countless instances submitting poems finds me racking quite a hefty collection of rejections, the responses lacking disappointing voluminous vicious venomous vitriolic backing quite the contrar......Read the rest...

...Dust rises thick with grim, sweat drips from rims of drug-store eyes he wears to spy. A parting of the slats, which dangle by twin hooks This Moses at the sea will look, and count, to see wh......Read the rest...

...So let me know that you are a shopworn Me thee rises like the sun galore but sometimes Deflated, downplayed and torn The surrealism of us bestowed much mold. So let me know if your truly a write......Read the rest...

...My eyes are platinum, an abyss They reflect the midday sky, a blue relic I blink back molten metal tears These garments are loose bleeding petals They hang like rolls of skin, peeling and shedd......Read the rest...

...A precious penny for your thoughts, for five a good cigar. Prevailing wisdom up in smoke to regale the nearest star. Keep abreast of Smith and friends, but true friends we disdain. As eager b......Read the rest...