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Slate Poems - Poems about Slate

Slate Poems - Examples of all types of poems about slate to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for slate.
A biographical poem
...Life is like a bottle of buckfast Sticky sweet but in the end its harsh Take too much gets you ed fast LIfes not for the faint of heart heres my bars I was born in the G town 2 teams that......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, growing up,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member After The Flood
... On a drowsy dusk in summer the air suddenly stops to flow, the trees seemed stilled fossils, their boughs drooping low. The horizon turns a slate draped with onyx cloud layers, the thunder spl......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, analogy, storm, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member People Of Pretense
... I’ve never been where they tread, chasing mirage through desert storm. I look at evasive eyes perennially petrified, see their void vision fixed fast on fantasy, shroud of de......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, analogy, dark, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boreas by John William Waterhouse 1902 Oil on Canvas
...It’s not that I am languid, more that I am chagrined. So disappointed to be met by this dreadful north wind. I am on my way to see him, and I will look so disheveled. I am convinced the god Boreas......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, wind,
Form: Ekphrasis
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Serene Meadow
... April 07, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Through the serene meadow, we tread, With mindful motions and hearts full of dread, It's daybreak; everything is quiet ......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, friend, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Powers That Be
...“So this is your yearly assessment Pray tell how you feel you have done Since we made you Head of Progressment Shaping everything under the Sun.” “My achievements are way beyond measu......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Born Again
...I'm wiping the slate clean I've been sleeping in the dust left by memories The world's new budding green whispers to me Wake up I've become something beautiful shedding away the violence of my ......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, anxiety, freedom, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Easter time again
...Its Easter time again a time for reflection Jesus took our guilt and shame He Came to heal our heartache and Came to take away out pain Giving us a new beginning To start all over a new, No......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Easter time again
...Its Easter time again a time for reflection Jesus took our guilt and shame He Came to heal our heartache and Came to take away out pain Giving us a new beginning To start all over a new, No......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Thunder
... At the edge of hazy horizon in the sky of slate he sees the raucous cloud clumps on the wings of storm ride. Sparked by their contra current he bursts asunder in anger the opaque sky’s void, ......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, analogy, nature, sound,
Form: Personification
My Mistress
...What is death if not supreme silence, Have you ever craved the silk of a quiescent moment? When the constant barrage of noise around you becomes abhorrent, And what if the most deafening gabble, ......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, dark, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Petal Amongst The Thorns 1918
... A Petal Amongst The Thorns Lament, laconic whispers felled, where holm oak trees of centuries sprawled, Where Love’s evading memory stares of old, of Time’......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, angel, bereavement, death, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
At the Sides
...I have been living on the sides trying so hard to survive but the residue of hope keeps rocking my boat. Daylight breaks out on the stream, and it keeps disrupting my unconscious dreams, and I am pus......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, business, career, change, community,
Form: Narrative
Excerpts from Gilgamesh
...He Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh” loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I. He who visited hell, his country’s foundation, Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places. H......Read the rest...
Categories: slate, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme

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