Squint Poems - Poems about Squint

...There is so much pain in this world, You seem to take it on As though it were all yours. You wear it like a weighted blanket, Each of your movements constrained, So much more effort, Just to st......Read the rest...

... I may be just a hat but from way up here I can see that she has her clothes hung up like little soldiers ready for service at the drop of a hat As I tilt my linen peonies and squint in her c......Read the rest...

...You lay sleeping, and I, awake, focus on you’re steady breathing in hopes it will lull me into at very least a meditative trance, if not actual sleep. I stare into the blackness of the room, it’s e......Read the rest...

... Written: May 10, 2024, For Jay Narain Summer Contest Rumi Quote: Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder ......Read the rest...

... On sunny days folks squint and smile The world rejoices for a while In come the clouds, out come our frowns We were up before, now we’re down Next the rains to wash away al......Read the rest...

...I’m a full-dressed villain, Wearing the iron maiden’s cape. Squint eyes, Pouty lips: “Be careful who to throw those rumors, You cannot escape.” As faithful as sheep, As treacherous as fox. Yo......Read the rest...

... After a night of heavy snow, a deep silence presses down in woods not unlike the weight of stones, as though all sound had been squeezed out. The snow’s intense glare smarts, the eyes......Read the rest...

...Did you ever have the felling you are being watched? The night is dark with a subtle light softly glowing through curtain windows the outside porch light shines and gifts a shy radiance into the ......Read the rest...

...Ear buds in, texting fingers Shuffling feet, eyes locked on the glow Wisdom is screaming, the sound lingers Seeking my attention, but I do not know I knew not the truth was flowing Its voice w......Read the rest...

...End Line Rhyme as a footle SENIOR MOMENTS. FOOTLE Here I am at a very great old age with same chat) for these days I can only recall ......Read the rest...

...Charred in solace of your embrace reminiscences engrossed as imprint harboured in placards of your grace A birth, a thousand with no squint in winter's pure pour of snow reminiscences engrosse......Read the rest...

...The window lets in an odd solitary ray of light, Of timid color, a cusp between twilight and night. It lands hesitatingly on the golden tip of my pen, and then blasts into the iris of my eye, half......Read the rest...

...Dainty hippo man with your light lovely lithe sprint Your two-step makes my gleeful eyes squint I love the way you circle around the room after a nap With your shoes going sixty directions, tappin......Read the rest...

...My biggest influence was Van Gogh, after he cut off his ear. For being lopsided and askew is what I don’t fear. His uneven brush strokes and off-balanced yellow sky Makes his art intriguing, he si......Read the rest...

...The saddest things about signs, Is that there are so many! One would think I had all day, To read the signs in my way! Floating in the sky, Makes me squint an eye! Some are painte......Read the rest...