Spindly Poems - Poems about Spindly

...His fingers—spindly, delicate as a spider’s legs— dart among the gears, tools clink in whispers, sharp and sure. He bends close, breath fogging the polished brass, eyes fixed on the vortex of whe......Read the rest...

...pray tell what to do when a tree looks at you with those sullen sunken knotty eyes and then as he flashes those spindly twig lashes and sappy tears when it comes to goodbyes ......Read the rest...

...In the twilight where shadows whisper secrets of forgotten epochs, An old man stands, a spindly relic of a bygone era, So brittle he could shatter through himself, From crown to root, A cathedral......Read the rest...

...I spend my time, staring at the sky jealous of those trees that can reach such great heights I see their spindly branches winding out into the atmosphere I feel the heaviness in my limbs Aren't ......Read the rest...

...The poppies grow where the bodies lie. They grow out of their skulls; Out of bullet holes and discarded limbs— Anything is their home. And in this brutal massacre, A young poppy seed finds solac......Read the rest...

...In a great, entangled forest, stands a metal monster— An impossibility of nature, made by man. Alone; Broken—it looms over all things natural And asserts its right over the creatures that belong. ......Read the rest...

...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......Read the rest...

...WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS In the delicious womb of all beginnings we learnt to giggle electrons to bear all things without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts warm gurglings of God’s dream......Read the rest...

...What The Roses Don’t Say by Michael R. Burch Oblivious to love, the roses bloom and never touch ... They gather calm and still to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ... They sway, bem......Read the rest...

...harvest moon spindly pine tree's darkness silence sleeps 1/13/2024......Read the rest...

...Wings are eyelids. A mind can be left aside on a workbench while the brain teaches the sky to sleep. Mother lives in a jar in an old curiosity shop. Father enters the world bringing extinct wor......Read the rest...

...At the crossroads The bald old man With his gray stricken beards Caressed his antiquated flute Perching on his cracked dehydrated lips With his spindly fingers As he nonchalantly reeled out his......Read the rest...

...Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I got a jolt, I was driving my old bucket of nuts and bolts, along the country road on a chilly autumn day, Saw wild turkeys walking, they'd be ambling awhile, I sl......Read the rest...

...My heart ached dull and wallowing Like an itch that won’t go away I feel hollow and carved out Like a piece of me is missing My spindly fingers And my gaunt and desperate eyes Search through......Read the rest...

...The leaves begin to change their hue and fall, The tree's look like skeletons all spindly and tall. We run through the piled leaves, kicking them up like a cloud, The chidren all excited yelling......Read the rest...