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Slip Of The Tongue Poems - Poems about Slip Of The Tongue

When Tongue Triumphs Over Brain
... A word, a traitor, escaped the fortress of my teeth, a rogue syllable, a rebel sound. It danced, a clumsy jester, in the silence that followed, a ripple in the still pond of conversation. ......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
gymnastics and performance
...in our french big top i take the shoulder lenth of the tight rope bar and our cubism begins theses are frames in sound film slides sound is on the beam when we come back for the slip of the tongu......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, africa, arabic, art,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Spoken Word
...No sweeter thing was ever heard The advent of the spoken word Soft notes on high from angels sung Heaven by a slip of the tongue......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For a Slip of the Tongue
...Speaking ill of others, gossip, carrying tales the quickest route to hell's fiery jail for the mightiest weapon of war is the tongue Who lives, who dies -- a civil tongue's praises ar......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, death, life, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
What a Girl Mustn'T
...One day, she had found herself old enough to hold her dad's pen, And scribble onto a piece of paper, as her dad had done so. But as she began, and to say it was her first time, her hand moved uncon......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 12
...DynDoeth with serious face and determined stride entered the room and advanced directly toward Joulupukki. Standing to face the elf, Joulupukki, was intent on getting some answers, but before he cou......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member What Is a Sundial In the Shade
...*Image of Sundial Lawn Landscape by Pixabay. What is a sundial in the shade? "What is a sundial in the shade?" use your gifts and be not afraid, let your light so sh......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, character, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hope Is a Dream
...Hope is a dream, a wish, and a prayer, offering endless possibilities. She's dressed in hand-me-downs, frail and threadbare, spun from fears and responsibilities. She visits the hearts ......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
A Dream of Uruguay
...I still have that dream of us on what would be my last day in Uruguay sitting on a low stone wall overlooking the vast sea while the sun is chased away behind us and the wind gently brushes the ......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, dream, first love, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Slip of the Tongue
...I was a city born and city bred young fellow, whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar. Oh yes I had seen grass, but out on a footy ground and my entertainment was drinking at a nightc......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Lament For America
...How long must the hostility and bitterness continue The clear majority has made its preference known, The higher courts of the land have verified what is true. How much evil and vindictiveness a......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, america, patriotic, political,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Slip of the Tongue
...“Slip of the tongue…” indeed asserts the mouth midst heart’s justifying grievous whisper while soul, caught between deception conflicts clamors for freedom against guilt-caused angst vanq......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Lifeboat To Hunt a Shrill
...Part 5 They continued to fry under a blistering sky With little water to stifle the heat. When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course, We have entered the waters of a perilous bea......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
What a Girl Musnt
...One day, she had found herself old enough to hold her dad's pen, And scribble onto a piece of paper, as her dad had done so. But as she began, and to say it was her first time, her hand moved uncon......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, corruption, dad, passion, women,
Form: Free verse
A Slip of the Tongue
...have you ever woken up watching poor no the GOOD morning where rise and shine can be defined by saying that the sun erected at seven ei ghteen and stayed that way until a hairy......

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Categories: slip of the tongue, muse,
Form: I do not know?

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