Shrift Poems - Poems about Shrift

...The obnoxious sound of heartbeats boom Drumming incessantly overhead Here I sit in the belly of your gloom Wanting for your blighted affection Play me not for such a saccharine foal Meet my a......Read the rest...

...Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent... therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why? Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, and mortally wounde......Read the rest...

...Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth... and let yours truly not forget emasculation that prickly emotional immobilization whereby these lovely bones subject courtesy senescence upon......Read the rest...

...SPARKLING EYES IN POOLS SO DEEP WHENCE DISTANT LAND THOU CAME. LAY THINE HEAD UPON MINE BREAST PRAY WHISPER ME THY NAME. PRAY DID THOU COME FROM HEAVEN TO BLESS MINE EYES WITH THEE. STILL MIN......Read the rest...

...To be a polylepis tree you gotta know You're a polylepis tree & this knowing Cements by being a polylepis tree, Knowing between diagrammatic cracks Fork'd already info knowing during descent. ......Read the rest...

...Growth should be the ultimate criterion, nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge, for myself and other people who might gain, from a heartfelt commitment such as mine, that monumental new year ......Read the rest...

...HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Some said it was coming, even imminent But it’s actually here now, and for real A New World Order no longer a theory Such that of TV news we should be leery What we think......Read the rest...

...Helianthus annuus, heliotropic slow son dance Stream of photons bathe top heavy fountainhead of sunflower. Analogous to Atlas shrugging, hoisting, grappling... with planet Earth, the heavywe......Read the rest...

...Light and airy summer breezes Make short shrift of springtime sneezes, Warm and thoughtful gentle squeezes Undo ill-tempered moody freezes, A welcomed smile much tension eases If we ......Read the rest...

...SERENITY Swans serenely gliding gracefully Ripples radiating on the still surface Lifelong loyalty faithful friends No need for them to use dazzling displays Rivals risk short......Read the rest...

...If USPS has your gift Delivery will not be swift It seems the Night Shift Just got the short shrift And somewhere your gift went adrift!......Read the rest...

...A new friend is a gift one can keep or reject, how you feel doesn’t matter, a gift is a gift! If a friend can’t get earned, can one be just desserts? If you want to be friends and I don’t, are you......Read the rest...

...Waiting once more for the wonders at dawn, a tired, empty muse paces the lawn struck dumb by notions refusing to spawn. The new day arrives but dark does not lift, an overcast sky now leaves he......Read the rest...

...Am I Vexed? No! Am I vexed to face music? We both are ‘same sex.’ It’s beyond man to fathom the depth of man’s soul though perhaps a computer (imagined) might spin all t......Read the rest...

...This merciless heat smothers the earth with air-less wings It creeps in by degrees stifling life's breeze gives Nature short shrift until it lifts......Read the rest...