Short Grim Faced Poems
Short Grim Faced Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Grim Faced by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Grim Faced by length and keyword.
Men In Black
Who are these notorious grim-faced men
Government spies, aliens, perhaps Satan
What color shows the real you?
Pray it is a brighter hue!
Just please don’t put on that black suit again...
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Categories:
grim faced, funny, science fiction
Form:
Limerick
Gone, Perhaps Forever
Someone very near and very dear
leaves, perhaps forever, no offense
but he has his own right to life, it
just happens to be thousands of
miles away...
and so I go about my daily grind
grim-faced, gusto-less, ghostlike going
through the motions, until I feel
his message shoot through my veins
pricking my conscience and bringing
out the sunshine in my heart of hearts...
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Categories:
grim faced, leaving, lonely, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Full Measure
Last Full Measure
Car pulls into the driveway
two doors slam.
Gravel crunches as feet
walk to the porch.
Thump, thump, thump
slow walk to porch.
Ding, ding, ding, ding
doorbell chimes its dirge.
Mother traces her finger over
photo of son.
Tears drip to the floor, as she
answers the summons.
Two grim faced men in uniform
heads bared enter.
Ma’am we regret to inform you.
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Categories:
grim faced, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mission Exit
Mission Exit
In the far lane
out of the marine fog,
Near Mission Road Exit-
the 5 South-
a 1965 Ford Ranchero,
vein blue
and sea bleached bone white.
The grim faced driver,
hands at ten and two,
her plum head wrap and
fingers tight as roots,
her face twisted furrows.
I will never know her.
She will hold all she knows
sacred, broken-
as real as a sharpened knife-
and disappear uncaptured
even by these words.
....
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Categories:
grim faced, humanity,
Form:
Free verse