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Smalling Poems - Poems about Smalling

Anatomy Of The Leg
...In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives taped to the tips of her feet. The room is empty apart from a single man in a music box He wears a black an white suit buttoned up to th......

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Categories: smalling, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Reigns
...There’s a horse under the Weeping Cherry. And the Sky is Crying too. I’m sad that I’m happy today. The new greens are sprouting. It’s Spring. The upwelling tears are spouting. It’s ......

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Categories: smalling, depression, sad, spring,
Form: Free verse



Maya Angelou
...Doctor Maya Angelou the writer Maya Angelou the actor Maya Angelou the poet The singer that was Maya Angelou That Black lady With silk smooth voice Like silk smiling under the finger’s touch S......

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Categories: smalling, death, memory,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Splendour
...Go love your rainbow falling from trees Your spectral forests stripped of leaves Stark branches fingering the sun's eye The little deciduous garden waiting to die, and dappled ground appalled I will......

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Categories: smalling, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Singing Spheres
...dusk comes now in dress of velvet snow the last bang splintered fractals of light and set the universe to dance in day and night music made ......

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Categories: smalling, music, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Magic Carpet Tours
...Madam, your chariot arrives, of camel hair and silk Sparkling like the pleiades, sweet as heaven's milk And all around us whistling, willows wet with songs That you and I adrift on a dream may beyond......

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Categories: smalling, forgiveness, me, sweet, love,
Form: Rhyme
Reconciliation
...Let us, you and I Begin counting days Like cents Before the ice gets too thin Losing monuments Of what we were about Here take my hand I am a child Children teach from dreams God and man rec......

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Categories: smalling, religion, god, child, god,
Form: Free verse
Sandcastle Heart
...Sandcastles by the seashore I build them No more. Dreams are too frail to stop the sea Of brokenhearts and misery; the gem Of faith is love, but man is vanity. We had no shelter from the brimming sun......

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Categories: smalling, lost love, heart, heart,
Form: Verse
Lilly Pad and Frogs
...A tree mast broken Changes pond to pillow fast ... The frog is asleep The lilly pad swims And toad applauds toad in songs The moon will rise soon Water turns to dream Light kisses the heart of l......

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Categories: smalling, nature,
Form: Haiku
Inescapable
...I would away fly, but why dream All I would leave I keep to scream The world is only me And only I through the world stream The farthest star is my extreme Even more I'm lonely It was so for God, t......

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Categories: smalling, inspirational, world, longing, universe,
Form: Rhyme
To That Special Sweetheart
...I figure I could honor you with these fresh Flowers to form my heart's true delight in praise I keep desire like butterflies in a mesh For birthdays such as yours, to litter your days With happiness......

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Categories: smalling, anniversary, dedication, depression,
Form: Rispetto
In Praise of the Midnight Pearl
...Come midnight dark and in her jewel clumped Set her bright Iskin's blackness to better shine By being darker than your darkened lump Where no distinction common eyes can find. For my pearl is not whi......

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Categories: smalling, dedication, universe,
Form: Sonnet
Broken Gems
...A flower petal Bloomed out against sky dancing ... Humming bird hoovers Wings and heart posing On a pinnacle of leaf ... The eye snapshots love Leaking through slow leaves Shadowing the humming win......

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Categories: smalling, nature, heart, bird, bird,
Form: Haiku
Easter
...Between an egg and the cross I pause for a beginning Quite different from my loss Clean as a new born leaf From a sprig of God I am now the fallen sheaf And he coming like my spring Bring dead buds ......

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Categories: smalling, faith, religion, hope, me,
Form: Free verse
All My Champions
...Here’s to all my champions, yes you, this is my thing You are the yam, cocoa, breadfruit, cornmeal dumpling Pumpkin, dasheen, and potato, in my pot of soup An excellent, poetic, supportive, pen l......

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Categories: smalling, dedicationsweet, me, sweet,
Form: Rhyme

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