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Stilts Poems - Poems about Stilts

Stilts Poems - Examples of all types of poems about stilts to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for stilts.
Premium Member I Saw God, but Now What
...Line of inquiry: “Yes, I affirm, I have seen God But He appeared and then disappeared This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed But until what’s imbibed is assimilated, by fears I’m seared”......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, anxiety, character, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wistful
..."Wistful/Wishful: sometimes if a word can ever be realized, just an 'alphabet' change will suffice," ... by the Poet The coconuts have gone awry, and its fronds they seemed to ......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Bad Day Moon
...Cats go out then cry to come in. A runt-end of shade wilts. We feel the pull of a Lunar tide, sense the off-center mewing, of a dissonant aria. Trembling dogs hide their body-bones. The air i......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
fish, cat, and woman
...it will be evening soon a meal will be cooked fried with ginger and lemon grass on a black grill the head of the jungle perch will be given to the cat the woman could eat the head it is th......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Slower Paths
...A chill wind snatches his thoughts away. Arctic crocodiles slip up and down his spine. There was a time when deep winter walking was a brisk challenge, but that younger man is now, ......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Body Explained in Metaphor
...My Body Explained in Metaphor My Life is an ever-changing hill. I stagger up foot over foot And hand over hand If I’m lucky occasionally I trot down My eyes are two cameras They focus on wh......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Interlude
...The night was slippery, glass windows squeaked, fingertips slipped off skin. Humidity paused between layers of still air, only to slowly leak through. The house was raised up on stilts to avoid f......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member POETIC CREDO guidelines A TENSON TALK poem
...CREDO-POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN RECITED it then becomes a two-way unique one-off.experience . TRADITIONAL LINE CAPITALISATION RHYME .......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Bio
Premium Member MY POETRY CREED a tenson talk
..."say Brian" what is your poetry creed?" POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN RECITED it then becomes a two-way unique one-off.experience . ok then...to the detail- "So......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, poems,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Rum N Raisin 8 - All Growed Up
...‘Beasties’ is a bar that’s run for all the local pets It’s quite easily found because it’s next door to the vets The barman is an Emu but he gets it in the neck The locals call him Gregory and whi......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, cat,
Form: Narrative
A Choral Arrangement
...I live in this house next to the crick that I built up on some stilts and my hounds sleep up under it When it gets so hot you wilts Yeah they sleep all day under the porch And we hunt coons at n......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Llareggub
...I live in Arrubluc by the sea much like the fabled Llareggub made famous by Dylan Thomas in the radio play 'Under Milk Wood'. The land meets the sea here as well, but it's a beachside town, besi......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, beach, poetry, poets, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ibis
...wetland water whirls an ibis searches for crabs ~ foraging ballet white feathers emerge standing tall on bright pink stilts ~ bill crab prize displayed grunts and cooing sounds echo the we......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, beautiful, bird, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Critterature: a Gaelic Fashion Statement
...A giraffe who was new At the Aberdeen Zoo Heard a bagpipe askirling one day. He tracked down the player And offered to pay her If she kindly would teach him to play. He gazed at the piper, A H......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, animal, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Eunuch Encouragements
...Elephant trunk palms column, canopy claps hands Undergrowth glad heart shape leaves spiral Navigator vines map branches, brace boa banyan Utile duenna diary with my duties conspiring ......Read the rest...
Categories: stilts, angel, anniversary, blessing, friendship,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

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