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Sifts Poems - Poems about Sifts

Premium Member Numb After Truth
... Truth sifts pain through my feelings - his words cut like sharp splinters. I feel so fragile, sad aches crumble me on green dazed ground. Heavy, my eyes are mere slits as clouds descend to......

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Categories: sifts, betrayal, confusion, emotions, memory,
Form: Verse
For Sweet Morrow's Song
...Each moonlit walk, each starlight gaze On nights that knew such carefree days Each whispered thrill on breezed romance The passion of another chance Each salted spray ......

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Categories: sifts, future, happiness, how i
Form: Free verse



Before the City Dawns
...(A subaltern dawn song...) We rise before the rooster cries, Before the sky begins to blush, Before the bosses sip their tea, We sweep the silence with a hush. The city sleeps ......

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Categories: sifts, absence, city, earth, good
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I lay down my thoughts like an endless river, as the sun sifts light at dawn
...I lay down my thoughts like an endless river, as the sun sifts light at dawn, I wish for you to smile, untouched by memories, without my heavy shadow, without the burden. I see you walking down the......

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Categories: sifts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Cement
...In youth, we laughed with a stupid friend, Wandering the streets all night without an end. Friends are few, time is scarce, now here we are, Regretting in sorrow, as we ponder so far. Life, ......

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Categories: sifts, youth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Nudging
...What's with this nudging- this perpetual nudging from deep within, urging me to write a poem? A poem of feelings, of rhythm and imagery. And I am willing- Grasping for words, phrases, perha......

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Categories: sifts, creation, desire, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
In This Wildnerness
... In this wilderness I see Direction where God’s truth sifts the leaves and sings humanity’s song of Belong. Where Alone never leaves me empty or afraid, where guardian energy is spoken ......

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Categories: sifts, appreciation, celebration, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Time is Pain
...In a cozy home where laughter bloomed, A mother watched her children, once in their rooms, Four bright stars, each chasing their dreams, With hearts full of hope and ambitious schemes. ......

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Categories: sifts, child, family, feelings, growing
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member white
...the languid petals of addiction fall in a silent way drugs to wipe clean the scribbled slate of the mind adrift and alone on the ocean of the bathroom floor down on my luck down on my k......

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Categories: sifts, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
... My hand splits the deck, divides the weight of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate. At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts like safety-grade stars scattered between laps, a......

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Categories: sifts, allusion, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the vast sky, where stars tell their stories in whispers of light
...Under the vast sky, where stars tell their stories in whispers of light, I wander through thoughts, seeking hidden meanings in the shadows of night, Love knows no half measures, it's an ocean that ......

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Categories: sifts, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Steps of Time
...Chill the north-east air On the bravest cheek Though the March sun sifts Through the clouding sheet As if winter fights The advancing spring, While the daffodils dance In the darting breeze! ......

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Categories: sifts, change, christian, creation, daffodils,
Form: Blank verse
If You Look Inside My Eye
... If you walk into classroom 314 You will see the perfect image of pristine An iron statue, still and strong A picture book motif of calm But if you look just right into its eye You’ll see just ......

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Categories: sifts, angst, anxiety, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sipping Claret from a Lismore Goblet
...Bereft and alone since love was lost, she sits in deep shadows humming the same song sipping claret from a Lismore goblet Day and night, in silence she dwells Time no longer sifts through an ......

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Categories: sifts, sad, wine,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swords And Roses
... Do We Bleed Not, In That We Love As Blades, As Roses, Time Is As Fleeting As A Dove And As The Sand Sifts The Moments Out The Hourglass And Love Finds It's Way, Just As The Blade Swinging In......

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Categories: sifts, hope, love, war,
Form: Rhyme

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