Stoep Poems - Poems about Stoep

Along With The Thunder

...

Along with the Thunder
came Tempestas, goddess of storms
turtle doves scattered on  
corrugated roof, grey feathers flying when glimpsing her fierce amber countenance 
this is time of rattlin...

Categories: stoep, allegory, cat, character, color,
Form: Free verse

I Belong to Beautiful

...A glistening sun-baked day
Blue sky reverberates into deeper blue
Light shimmers in pixels 
A yellow butterfly flutters against the petals of a flower,
Like a piece of paper caught in a breeze,
...

Categories: stoep, africa, blessing, butterfly, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Wyrd Wheel of Wonder and Woe

...I can do my rune rede uncorrupted.
The Ward nurses word can not  be trusted.,
Nurse allows me to eat at the cafe,
I will be pissed off ,trusting them, led astray .
Will go outside on the stoep ;b...

Categories: stoep, deep, destiny,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

SENSE PLEASURE

...SENSE PLEASURE 

Red honeyed apples
        autumn leaves dewed 
           ****** merge with sun streams 
             whilst children sleep dear dreams

Bobbing bubble baths
        yogurt ...

Categories: stoep, beautiful, children, color, earth,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Henry's Bucket

...Henry’s Rust Bucket

He had managed the steep rise from a valley to his home and sat on the small 

stoep. Another koppie towering ahead, he looked straight forward and counted 

his blessings....

Categories: stoep, philosophy, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

The Closer, the Better

...The closer the better

Nearier and nearier
Thats how i seem get when approaching the light, yet i never really feel it in sight
I do well and promising in the mid year
I flash my eyes its anothe...

Categories: stoep, age, art,
Form: Free verse

Summer In Karroodorp 1954

...On the anvil that’s the dorp
The noon-day sun beats down.
So between twelve and two
Life in the place is suspended.
Doors to the stores are ‘toe’
And in their dusty windows che...

Categories: stoep, seasons, solitude, urban, ,
Form: Blank verse

Day's End In Enniedorp

...A day in June.
Tuesday.
Week’s worst day!
Twenty to five.

A wintry sun,
Low in the sky,
Casts long shadows,
Emits no warmth.

I’m in a dorp
With tired shops,
Bank and church,
GPO and a ...

Categories: stoep, nostalgia, places,
Form: Blank verse

Kom Wind, Kom Weer, Kom Oseaan

...Kom wind, kom weer – Kom oseaan
(Geïnspireer deur Laurika Rauch se lied)

Ek droom van my eie huis eendag by die see
Vir Laurika eentyd was dit nag
Myne staan ook op ‘n rots: maar dis dag
Daar ...

Categories: stoep, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?

Poor Girl, Rich Thoughts

...I come from a place where dreams are only pushed by people who should -- Your parents or guardians, nobody else.
I would be everything I want, change the world if I could,
But there is so much in m...

Categories: stoep, how i feel, life,
Form: I do not know?

Sonnet 1

...A canvas high and felt traced tips
With background broad and tint azure
None posed in space with limbs being clipped
The sketch of liberty one saw

When pillars then in holes are tucked
Sore eyes in ...

Categories: stoep, bird, blue, life, longing,
Form: Sonnet

When Time Stood Still.

...I sit in the arbor..it's  half past midnight
but I cannot sleep tonight.
Somewhere between the pillows and blankets
 sleep went into decline.
 So I sit in the garden on this silent night
as the ...

Categories: stoep, introspection, me, me, sleep,
Form: Free verse