Short Flatland Poems
Short Flatland Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Flatland by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Flatland by length and keyword.
Swishing of the Oat Seed
On the bleak street
not a blade of grass,
only dust
from the lorries,
the cement mixers.
A year later
I see a bud appearing,
by Autumn
this one golden blade
has grown tall.
The sound of a swishing oat seed
cheers me up
in grubby flatland....
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Categories:
flatland, cheer up, earth, nature, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Ink's Wickedness
Bloodthirstiness of ink's wickedness,
ruthlessly dripped upon parchment
blistering an already screeching sun,
no footprints apparently left in sand as
oceans's bluffs turned oases to flatland,
there was no urgency for brutal honesty
aside factually, it unquestionably delivers...
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Categories:
flatland, allegory, crazy, dark, evil, muse, nonsense, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
F L a T L a N D
To resist the op(press)ion
of the two (dement)sional flatland world of glossy magazines,
I have (ob)seen women
Mutilate their forearms with deep(er) strokes of a razor
So that they may prove with their b(lo)ody
To themselves and their (conf)users
That their image (has depth)
Has depth (their image
Has depth)...
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Categories:
flatland, abuse, anxiety, body, image, innocence, self, women,
Form:
Free verse