Skids Poems - Poems about Skids

Butter Fly

...Butter Fly

    the butter
~*                *~
    *             *
      *         *
          fly

that flied away
that broke
the heart
          
             ...

Poor Mrs Newton

...Poor Mrs. Newton had two kids.
One found gravity.  He was bright - 
while little Fig hit the skids 
and was eaten in one bite - 
different as black and white....

Time

...The poetry of the COVID era

I spend my time within four walls
My time runs, my time crawls
It ebbs and flows, but cannot stay
It talks to wise, it flies away

Time envelops, leaves marks on t...

Loverboy

...Loverboy staring out the window, the stars gleaming so prettily
The meadow's bathing in silver light of the moon; it is such a perfect night
Loverboy sighs at the darkness, candlelight dimming as t...

Starts with a title

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Born on this rock with a diaper and mittens,
hard to the touch but so soft in its feel
Crawling along like a dragon with kittens,
purring out fire, if that could be real
Laid in the sun un...

Mother In-Law’s Tongue

...In this woke world I’d soon be hung
If I had had your spiteful tongue
How ironic that its wagging
Only stopped when you were gagging

And as I tried to grab the shard
Of chicken bone that was s...

An Ice Fishing House, Abandoned, in Need of Repair

...An Ice Fishing House, Abandoned, in Need of Repair

That same shed waits
by the trees.
Waits on its skids
for the lake to freeze,
and the for the creaking 
joints of bickering 
stoop-shoulder...

On the Skids

...On the skids with no brakes,
thankfully, a memory;
that began with falling,
falling over and over again,
with bruises that healed;
such is childhood.

I tried to attack the slippery slope,
ch...

Dreams Within Dreams

...My eyeballs move as though witnessing scenes within eyelids.
Face, just like obeying commands of some far-off spirits, skids
Heaven, with the triune god and the angels illumine
I cross the boundar...

Aunt Marges Christmas Letter

...Aunt Marge’s Christmas letter sat unopened again.
Most of us walked by it, and said “not by the hair
of our chinny chin chin”

We knew what it would hold
Accomplishments of her six awful kids
W...

Catch the Rainbow

...We were lonely,
Our children newly grown.
If only,
we could find someone for our own.

Apart from our kids,
our first marriages weren't great.
They hit the skids
more than ten years ago, plus...

You Were Feeling Like a Kid

...You toss them to the ground, they don’t beckon or call,
They’re a pair of jeans, and to the ground they fall,
They stay as long as you threw them,
Yet they could stand tall,
When they’re on you t...

Trump Poems and Epigrams VI

...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI


Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch

My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for you are my retribution.

May I offer you dark...

Corpus Christi 1

...
Survey the hands that do the tiresome deeds,
the feet that clear the weeds on paths of sin,
the ears that listen, writing down the needs
the loving hearts that pray for souls to win.

Disciple...

Limericks IX

...Limericks IX



Scratch-n-Sniff
by Michael R. Burch

The world’s first antinatalist limerick?

Life comes with a terrible catch:
It’s like starting a fire with a match.
Though the flames m...

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