Straggling Poems - Poems about Straggling

Eyes

...Hair, or body, or eyes. 
Eyes are straggling behind. 
Nothingness. 
There exists such thing as beneath. 
And around.
As if I could reach anything with these hands. 
This sweeping, winking tall ...

When Raindrops Fall

...Pitter patter on rain polished pavements
Tears straggling down window panes
The rattle of ricocheting  raindrops on galvanised rooftops
Spiralling eddies in bull's eye puddles
Umbrellas ,shields ...

One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarian

...One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory

I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated, 
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, in...

Economy

...I do mind it but it is getting easier to be in economy when my mind tells me I deserve first class.

The careful management of available resources has somewhat dimmed but with manageable.

My lif...

Chapter 61-- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family --Vacation Xi

...Lunch time vacation destination 
Was upon the Damian Hakim 
Brood. Everybody was excited.
Damian announced,
"Family, we will be leaving 
7 o'clock evening time!
 We're flying by private jet at
...

Comet

...Speeding out and back around the sun
The comet came on its periodic run
Straggling tail spread afar
By the wind from the star
Carrying deep at its heart
The vital spark for life to start
Each p...

Autumn Leaves

...As summer has briskly bowed and left,
The air has become crisp and moist. 
Sky is clear, the wispy clouds straggling here and there!
The evening’s weak rays cut through trees, half bar...

By the Seaside

...Staying by the sea, now at sunset
With the light slowly fading into greyness
And the waters lying quiet
A peace fills me as never before

Dismal fears barred entry into the soul
Min...

Equilibrium

...It rained and poured heavily as never before
Washing away hills,downs and the plain;
Sure it was a commited lofty drain
To revive the struggling, straggling live galore;
Lightings thunder like pr...

Watching From a Skiff On the Ohio River

...Herons fragment the mist,
appear and disappear while remaining motionless.
The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past.
A dewy sky shivers.

Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio.
T...

An Immigrants Tale

...We arrived like windblown dirt,
the steamer vomited us out
then wallowed into a smug stillness.

We migrants stood 
to be led somewhere, anywhere
slowly we disembarked, disorganized 
and strag...

As I Grow Old

...The fading ancient sun casts long shadows before me,
as I shuffle slowly and sluggishly down asymmetrical lanes.
How age mellows me like ripe watermelon, squeezing me
until all my ambrosial juices...

Innocent

...Short black pants with straggling hair
Holding a glass of beer
Laugh loudly, wrist with grasping 

Squiring and dancing nightlong

Acid house echoed all over 
White shirt foxed a red lips mark...

The Evil One

...I picked the house whilst floating down
After travelling to this country town
The air from the house was delicious
As the shouting voices raised were so vicious

The first one I saw was a little...

The Rose

...
It must have been something 
He was thinking of doing for a while
It happened suddenly but he’d thought it over
I could tell there were words left unspoken
That would reveal truths ...

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