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Skims Poems - Poems about Skims

Premium Member Point of No Return
... A crescent moon dangles in the distance, whilst meteors jet across Prussian blue heavens, leaving trails of grey ash in their wake. An abnormal, elongated silence creeps through threadbare t......

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Categories: skims, angst, conflict, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Dragonflies
...Dragonflies What are dragon flies? Something colorful flying by. A small critter that skims across the water. Maybe just a messenger? A positive symbol. A way to keep life simple. Trans......

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Categories: skims, change,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Anthem of Nature
... Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit." Star-speckled galaxies nestled in indigo stratospheres transform Into a plethora of pastel hues, painting the canva of a......

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Categories: skims, art, beautiful, imagery, light,
Form: Free verse
The boy from my 5 classes again
...Sometimes he’s next to me. Close enough that the air feels different, like something charged is sitting between us. My stomach does that thing, tightens, flutters, not because I like him, not like th......

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Categories: skims, 10th grade, age, anger,
Form: Free verse
Golden Confetti
... sunlight skims the stream buttercups like gold c o n f e t t i ......

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Categories: skims, april, beauty, color, imagery,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Milk of Roses
... “Milk of Roses” Milk of Roses was her scent and great bouquets of baby's breath moving messages that blew across hearts underneath the bones and skin of breast ......

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Categories: skims, muse,
Form: Narrative
Cheese Wars
...The Edam's sailing through the air, and Cheddar skims my head, I duck to miss the Danish Blue, but Brie hits me instead.......

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Categories: skims, food,
Form: Rhyme
Venus
...Your darted arrow of Venus impales Our demise persists through our veins The echo in my heart is hopeless What is love when death skims the surface?......

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Categories: skims, allusion, body, cry, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Girl with a pearl earring
... I’m struck by the stark contrast of her image which leaps out against a black background Meeting the gaze of her piercing blue eyes I find her so beautiful much more alluring than the Mona......

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Categories: skims, art, beauty, identity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Blue
...How did you get up there? Up there in the sky so fair?, Between the tree's bare limbs Behind where the cloud skims How did you get down here? Down here and along the pier?, Under the waves of......

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Categories: skims, appreciation, blue, color, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bunny Rabbit Tango
...Conejo Conejito Tango (Bunny Rabbit Tango) The mesmerizing twilight dims across a lake a warm breeze skims Buck, the handsome rabbit drinks, he has no doe; his love life stinks. He stares at h......

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Categories: skims, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Songs of Nature COS No 12: AABB
...Occasions a sign as moonglade o'er lake. Hears lay the sleeper in brevities wake, retold roses red and violets blue, yet best in scarlet as would maroon too and lavender is said truer than blue ......

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Categories: skims, analogy, appreciation, meaningful, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Figurehead
...Riding a thermal, without a flap of wings, hot air billowing his black cloth canvas, a crow sails the gray ocean of a foggy afternoon. No flap of the wings, no readjustment of rope and sail, it......

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Categories: skims, bird,
Form: Free verse
Supernova
...I have to say I've been here before My life has changed but not these shores Of this salty ocean sea I still drink I thought I'd escaped it so long ago When I caressed the ball which skims it......

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Categories: skims, addiction, depression, hurt, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spellbound
...Dark orange skies Fading into black night, A crescent moon rise Glowing ghostly white Skimming overhead With trick or treaters below, I watch them tread Before up I go ... Flying over c......

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Categories: skims, appreciation, flying, halloween, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

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