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Skeins Poems - Poems about Skeins

Premium Member IN A GILDED INSTANT
...IN A GILDED INSTANT The monarch’s wings opened as a picture book, fluttering by. It glided, uncertain but undeterred, through a gentle haze of gold and shadow, the garden’s......

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Categories: skeins, 12th grade, butterfly,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Craft Market at Pyree Fields
... Each month a craft fair, is held at Pyree Fields in the open air. All the local crafters are there, proudly showing off their homemade fare. Behind each stall, a pair of eyes stares, hoping......

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Categories: skeins, community,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Coming Back
... Thoughts keep coming back of late afternoons with the dark wings of currawongs weaving pathways through the high branches leaving long threads of song draped across trees - the drifting ......

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Categories: skeins, memory, time, winter,
Form: Free verse
Common
...From beneath a veil, A shroud itself hidden, Anonymity It's masquerade. Tired secrets languish, Benighted by nature, Emerald, to pale green and white, from jade. A sough in the head, Of their ......

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Categories: skeins, analogy, confusion, humanity, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
...The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII by Pablo Neruda translation by Michael R. Burch Ascend with me, my American love! Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together! The Urubamba’s torren......

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Categories: skeins, america, earth, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Candyfloss
...a spangled stand stood at a summer fair the sugar shack sells at nine dollars a treat pastel skeins of silk spun lighter than air melt-in-mouth-goodness, so delectable and sweet each tender bit......

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Categories: skeins, candy, childhood, food, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlight Over the Hill
... Written: January 23, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Regina Mcintosh "There are twilight times when only the moon will muse on my misery." By POET. ~~~~~~~~~~......

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Categories: skeins, analogy, love, moon,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Grandma Lulu the Knitting Queen
...Grandma Lulu loved to knit. She was the knitting queen. She has been doing this for ninety years. Click. Click. Click. Click.Click. She lived in a house full of yarns. Baby yarns, skinny yarns......

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Categories: skeins, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the realm of shadow where memories are born and die unnaturally
...In the realm of shadow where memories are born and die unnaturally, And stars watch in silence, reflecting celestial nostalgias. The Moon dresses in the silk of night, preparing for union, With th......

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Categories: skeins, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Picturesque Propinquity
... Written: February 11, 2024 ______________________________________ Features: fugacious fascinating beat I saw smoke, but no flames in sight I caught a cynosure o......

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Categories: skeins, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A unicorn travels through the wheat and lays its dreams upon poppy pillows
...A unicorn travels through the wheat and lays its dreams upon poppy pillows, Among the echoes of time that resonate in an eternal violet dusk, Where the sky embraces the sea in a mirror without lid,......

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Categories: skeins, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightened By Whispering Angels
...Alone, where winds had smoothed the cobblestone, a young novice sat, solemn and austere, brooding over mistakes made, seeds past sown. Entering the abbey; a fate severe, she wept with sadness whe......

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Categories: skeins, angel, faith,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member My Eldorado
...Oh, give me a home where majestic buffalo roam, Where antelope graze and rushing streams foam! A place where snow-capped mountains reach for the sky, And gentle winds waft through blue spruce with......

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Categories: skeins, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
The Workshops of Nirvana
...I’m the Seller of Rainbows Purveyor of such Delights Adding joy and pleasure to So many Rituals and Rites. Sliding through the portals In connected webs of space Physically always staying In ......

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Categories: skeins, allegory, art, beauty, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlight Sleigh Ride
...A brilliant moon casts its mellow glow, O'er fields covered with glistening snow! Skeins of geese fly on high silhouetted 'gainst the moon; The scene is all set for a sleigh ride, so very opport......

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Categories: skeins, christmas, family,
Form: Rhyme

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