Short Pickaxe Poems

Short Pickaxe Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Pickaxe by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Pickaxe by length and keyword.


Teaching Chimps To Speak a Few Words

Teach them just enough words to know
a pickaxe from a pencil…. just a few practical words
for practical applications, not too many,

otherwise they might turn into poets,
and god-knows we don’t need any more of that.


Other Ears

As if by other ears,
you hear the trees cracking,
a black ice splitting the sky,
a pickaxe laying bare
night’s white bones.

Sleepers arise
still dreaming of such things.

A cave, and inside
that carved-out ear
the dreams of others’
troubling you
into a kind of love.

And was it you walking
angrily away
driven wild and shouting,
with a night-gale roaring
in some other ear?

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