Sledgehammer Poems - Poems about Sledgehammer

...All night a sleepwalking death stumbled in and out of his prone body. He had been drinking again, whisky fumes rolled around a dry, thick tongue. The air in the room wavered from hot to co......Read the rest...

...Today was the first day I held a sledgehammer with intention Callouses connect palms to fingers tiny fleshy boa constrictors. There is no catharsis I know this to be a hollow act With a face......Read the rest...

...If I were to take a sledgehammer Grip it tender but tight So its iron skull may send A scathing speech to your sternum Would bricks take flight, Or are you truly that dense?......Read the rest...

...In the bitterness of my soul  I wept sore in my solitude  Wallowing in my sorrowful spirit  I lost the sense of my whole  For how long shall I continue in this service? For how long shall you to......Read the rest...

...Flirting with disaster On this fast-moving highway of life; Speed demons incurably infected With the disease of impatience. I tremble with disgust When shaken by a fierce gust of wind Engend......Read the rest...

...I am shackled to my front door My definition of freedom is foregin I am cold Cold is my dying dreamer Cold is my burning rage Cold is a sledgehammer It gives and it takes Silence is m......Read the rest...

...i found it skulking in a pile of broken poems it glared at me accusingly as if demanding that i read it the more i read the worse it got i knew what I had to do i had to edit i had to e......Read the rest...

...Capture the moments that will never come back two squirrels play in the walnut tree Do they use a sledgehammer to crack a nut? ......Read the rest...

...cool ascending ascent affirms saxophoning jazzbots like sparkling parks beneath a world walking with blurred heart I confess: I did do something somewhere at some point in t......Read the rest...

..."You can't keep an innate survivor down for long" - quote by poet smited down by misfortune's sledgehammer picks up his pieces, rises... now standing firm, tested. ...Read the rest...

...We found the old typewriter in 1967 None of us knew whose it was at one time It was hidden in a corner of great grandma’s attic At this time, I was using an electric typewriter. This antique type......Read the rest...

...Dark brier grow thick in Cleveland, thorny tendrils thrive. Clapperboard homes slack and linger, neglected yards grow thin grey bones. A vaporous wave passed over Lake Erie. None noticed the l......Read the rest...

...What will you do, when a man tells you, After 20 years he never loves you? He wishes you dead. He only married you for the benefits. What will you do? ......Read the rest...

...When you lose a child or a spouse, a parent or a loved one prematurely, feel free to cry out loud, to stomp and moan, to break some things, take long runs in the rain, sit looking out the windo......Read the rest...

...For My Sister and Brother Poets Mornings, again refreshed, I wield up a sledgehammer to strike the stone walls of the confinement of my assigned nativity...then seek to emigrate from thos......Read the rest...