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Smythe Poems - Poems about Smythe


Valley of beautiful flowers
...“In all my mountain wanderings I had not seen a more beautiful flower than this Primula, the fine raindrops clung to its soft petals like galaxies of seed-pearls and frosted its leaves with silver." ......

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Categories: smythe, flower,
Form: Free verse
Leaves, A Sonnet
...J. Smythe with Sylvia Plath Amongst the trees he walked, a distant form, She, like the leaves, danced in the summer breeze. The plan, he'd hoped, would keep her safe and warm, Suddenly, she dem......

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Categories: smythe, allusion, anger, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 'tis a Rear Find
...*Image of Prostrate Exam giphy by Gfycat. 'Tis A Rear Find Absent-minded Dr. Smythe Atherten, about to fill out my prescription when from his shirt pocket pulled out, "My thermomete......

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Categories: smythe, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Respect the Game
...To know just where your're going You must know where you've been You must respect the history The things others have seen It's true in all things relative Be it music, sports or life ......

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Categories: smythe, baseball, football, games, history,
Form: Rhyme
Mindful
...Are you mindful of the fact that the man there in the turban Is not a chimpanzee? I know this because that man is me. If you close your eyes, you’d never guess my race. My nails are the color......

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Categories: smythe, allegory, beauty, confusion,
Form: Blank verse



Open Letter To a Tory Minister's Wife - From One Wife To Another - Part 5
...(Part 5 of 5) And no more your kids will get a chance above mine Because at my work I’ve never even met the bosses You see we were able to hold our own before And keep the wolves from the d......

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Categories: smythe, betrayal, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sister Smythe's Nativity Pageant
...It was approved by the Session and duly recorded by the Clerk That the youth would perform the Nativity Play at the Presbyterian Kirk. 'Twas further resolved that Sister Smythe, who had a proclivit......

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Categories: smythe, funnysister, sister, myth, ,
Form: Rhyme
When the Evidence Went Missing
...I was perched upon a wooden bench beneath a bottle tree when this worn out wiry ringer stopped to rest his gammy knee. I’d been touring through the outback and had sought to sit a spell while t......

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Categories: smythe, funny, life, old, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things