Splayed Poems - Poems about Splayed

... The chest, a hollowed birdcage, ribs splayed wide, No fragile heart to flutter, only tide Of absence, pulling, churning, cold and vast, A landscape where all joy has long since passed. No p......

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...The night before my father’s heart attack, my brother and I were splayed across a bed watching a re-run of “Happy Days” and eating Oreo cookies. My father sat stiff and upright in a wooden cha......

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...How long have I been holding my breath? How long have I walked this path? It's winding turns make no sense. One after another. There is no sense in this madness, only an interrupting voice ......

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...The moon lights a glorious glowing path before us like a splayed yellow band stretched to the stars where we walk and listen to the nightbird sing and allow our hearts to be moved by its melody w......

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...I recline with my cherry tree musings… a fountain of blossoms cherub cheek complected rise and curve from the ground up into a heaven and cloud scene to spread in splendor a festoon of bl......

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...In the cozy inn by the fire's warm glow Lies a woman's body, lifeless and cold Her hair splayed out, like flames in the hearth But no fire could warm her, not even in death The guests all gathe......

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... with senses dulled, I'm unaware no breeze can rouse my will to care the muse escaped through fingers splayed I mourn as no more poetry's made blank pages stacked, a ready pen alas, I ......

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...*Vaaz= vase You offered roses delivered thorns, blood drips and your body adorns ~ Slumped, soaked in crimson your heart forever mine, retribution has come, my bloody valentine—by Poet ......

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...It was there for the picking, a velvet ruby red long and slender swaying in the comfort of it's bed. Petals splayed precisely an enticing grand display, nature made perfection quite impress......

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...Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country He seeks (in tandem with the missus) legal asylum in Canada... New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, et c......

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...Hashish smoke trails her along a dusky corridor Aka the hall of fires where mirage chimeras unleash Encumbered with hands splayed her crystal ball lumens wires ghostly apparitions mn......

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... A random road wanders across the desert as voluminous clouds chase the rising sun nary a sound can be heard, save for the whipping wind and clicks of insects. The yawning horizon stretches ......

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...Dredged from the depths of a shaken Sennen seashell she hears once more his voice, low, sonorous tones, sees the bones of her past laid out, splayed out, another story playing out, can feel it i......

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... emerald hands wave fingers splayed, fig fruit fall palms towards the sun ......

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...Your eyes once struck like lightning Down winded limbs Splayed out And sparkling From just a flash Now you look like charcoal bones And boiled veins And lungs Of skin That's burned to ash......

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