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Sleights Poems - Poems about Sleights

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...
don't talk,
you'll spoil it—
this version of me
I've been trying
to see as you—

don't say anything,
let's enjoy

our basic witch status,
excel in the practice
of angles— 
let's remain ...

Categories: sleights, extended metaphor, magic, word
Form: Free verse

Puff and Whistle, Long Train

...Winter has slowed you down on snowy tracks,
unhappy you sound, you caught a cold from clouds
chugging through big forests and mountains;
it's a short distance to the city, but it seems miles!

P...

Categories: sleights, january, journey, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Christmas Abecedarian

...Amorous is the tingling touch they feel
Blooming kisses as flaming as red bells
Convey passion in their glowing eyes 
Directing fantasy-filled thoughts outside
Enamored by the heavy snowfall on t...

Categories: sleights, christmas, culture, faith, family,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Bizarre Reversal of Seasons

...Instead of fluffy snow, it's steady rain;
cherry trees have blossomed in Brooklyn,
so did the tulips along Sheepshead bay...
even New Jersey has seen Nature in play!

Unlikely last year when all...

Categories: sleights, december,
Form: Rhyme

Jingle Bells

...Three silly kids from beautiful Montana
thought there was snow in North Carolina,
and sliding down the fluffy slopes.....
they kept going for months 'till they hit rocks!


They were shocked and real...

Categories: sleights, christmas, funny, christmas, beautiful,
Form: Quintain (English)

Dead Winter

...No January morning is ever so devastating, the heavy icicles
dangle from the frozen shingles of houses with puffing chimneys;
no eyes will see the misery of scattered, broken snow flowers...
all p...

Categories: sleights, fear, nature, places, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Freeloading

...Experience is not the best of teachers
The sharpest blades
The finest men and women
Have all been tempered with care
As have the tools and  sleights of working class
Responsibility is the best o...

Categories: sleights, education, family, philosophy, social,
Form: Free verse

Crazy

...The talk I hear is crazy talk,
  Peppered with imagined sleights;
The words I see are crazy words,
  Bloody tomes in blackest nights;
The points I get are crazy points,
  Fact and fiction not di...

Categories: sleights, life, crazy,
Form: Verse