Skate Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Categories
	What Is Love	Pixie Dust	Sonnet	skate, appreciation,
	Dinosaurs	Rohma shafique	Rhyme	skate, 4th grade, strength,
	frozen lake	cs parker	Free verse	skate, america, winter,
	Dreams and nightmares	Joshua Morales	I do not know?	skate, absence, allusion, anti bullying,
	I Never	ilene bauer	Rhyme	skate, me,
	Dear Dan	Andrea Dietrich	Rhyme	skate, 11th grade, boy,
	There for you to see	Heidi Sands	Tanka	skate, inspirational, light,
	The Dawning Sun	craig cornish	Villanelle	skate, spring,
	Skate Away Fool	M. L. Kiser	Limerick	skate, fun, life, nonsense, wisdom,
	CHARMING SOUTH AFRICAN WINTER	JENNIFER PROXENOS	Sonnet	skate, animal, beautiful, snow, winter,
	The Magic of Winter	Lu Loo	Sonnet	skate, winter,
	A Picturesque Winter	David Cardamone	Sonnet	skate, seasons, winter,
	Creative Flair	Heidi Sands	Rhyme	skate, appreciation, christmas, creation, nature,
	Stuck in a Snowglobe with You	Carolyn Devonshire	Free verse	skate, christmas, winter,
	SLIDING	Kim Rodrigues	Free verse	skate, growing up,
	MOTHERS MEN	Marc Pallanes	I do not know?	skate, abuse, child, child abuse,
	Date	Timothy McGuire	Limerick	skate, anger, love,
	Primeval Pixies	P.G. Simpkins	Rhyme	skate, change, creation, earth, life,
	If I Was A Penny	Nina Parmenter	Rhyme	skate, analogy, fun, humorous, silly,
	Trump Trying To Skate	James Horn	Limerick	skate, allegory, analogy,
	Determined to Wow The Teacher	Caren Krutsinger	Free verse	skate, 5th grade, 6th grade,
	When You Gotta Go You Gotta and More	James Horn	Limerick	skate, allegory, analogy,
	No FIshing	Kitty Lou	Rhyme	skate, humorous,
	Apps	Timothy McGuire	Rhyme	skate, computer, technology,
	Theater of Utter Charm Part 17	Walter Alter	Free verse	skate, how i feel,
	Things To Do In Summertime	Cary Snowden	Rhyme	skate, inspirational, summer,
	Dogs	Rowan Smith	Free verse	skate, 10th grade,
	The Game of Hockey	Dennis Spilchuk	Verse	skate, hockey, sports,
	I Wish I Were a Skate	Dean Wood	Limerick	skate, fish, sea,
	Puck It	Timothy McGuire	Rhyme	skate, hockey, sports,
	Beads Balls and Bangles	peter walsh	Rhyme	skate, blue,
	HAPPENING 13 ear candy	Brian Strand	Verse	skate, music,
	Drywater	Stephe Watson	Free verse	skate, snow, water, winter,
	A Medal Beyond Gold	David Welch	Rhyme	skate, appreciation, celebration, hero, perspective,
	A Winter Morning	Dear Heart	Verse	skate, introspection,
	Peace be with you	Maxie Macdonald	Free verse	skate, bible, faith, jesus,
	Winter Love	Gwen Schuetz	Acrostic	skate, appreciation, beautiful,
	Twilight Glow	Sandra Haight	Rhyme	skate, beautiful, night,
	Eyeing's For The Birds	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Verse	skate, dream, perspective, uplifting,
	Skating on Thin Ice	Sheila Haskins	Free verse	skate, nostalgia,
	FOREVER WINTER	Kim Rodrigues	Couplet	skate, dream, heaven, winter,
	SUE'S EXCESS WEIGHT DIDN'T LOOK GREAT	JAN ALLISON	Monorhyme	skate, body, truth,
	Miss Single	Alicia Green	Ballad	skate, anxiety, art, beautiful, care,
	Talking house	Taoi Chanan	I do not know?	skate, analogy, august, baseball,
	A SNOW QUEEN TALE	Kim Rodrigues	Free verse	skate, fantasy,
	Happy days	Jeremy Smith	Sonnet	skate, childhood, happiness, happy, how
	THROWING UP	Ir0nic ZiNk	Light Verse	skate, confusion, crazy, creation, fun,
	The wrinklys of 'remain'	Joe Maverick	Verse	skate, change,
	Hockey	Akkina Downing	I do not know?	skate, hockey, sports,
	Just Twelve Short Weeks	David Pekrul	Rhyme	skate, summer, winter,

Skate Poem Example

Where The Sycamore Grew

The sun-yellow house seems smaller somehow,
regarding it now,  with our time-worn eyes...

The street seems narrower, and the trees are taller..
Where once open fields spanned both sides of the road
there are new tract houses, and fences have bloomed
The neighboring orchards have all been removed

But somehow we knew the house would remain....
As if seen from a distance, ...yet, so much is the same

There's a rusty-red tricycle, and a skate left behind
from someone's small child, that tomorrow will find.
They wait near the pavers that wind to the door
It's a path that we laid on a hot summer day...
in front of this house that sits at the bend
near the end of the road, where the sycamore grew...

As suddenly as wind will spring from the dust
thirty years fell away, and flew into in the past
And quickly alive, all the memories rise, 
     like a whirlwind of leaves, in a springtime of lives.....
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...Our first Christmas trees,. and our first holidays...
    Anniversaries we spent with just pizza and wine

 The place where I cried long into the night, 
  as the child in me grieved for a mother who died...

 Long, starry nights, I was bathed by the moon
                    rocking my babes to a lullaby tune
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Yes....it is all captured there, in the small yellow house
Our very first house, with the snow-white shutters

Strange, it may be, but I'm glad it's still yellow...
Still wearing the face of the warm summer sun 

The sun- yellow house, with a flagstone path
Where old slate stones bring the sun to the door
It's a path we laid on a warm summer day
in a place that we knew as our very first home
 
Just a small yellow house, with snow-white shutters...
that sits 'round the bend, where the sycamore grew...


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Poem Copyright © Carrie Richards