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Stringy Poems - Poems about Stringy

Breathe spilled like bone
...Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. He handed her a firebomb, eyes sharp as vinegar. They ran across the hot asphalt, wat......

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Categories: stringy, allegory, allusion, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Breathe Spilled Like Bone
...Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. He handed her a firebomb, eyes sharp as vinegar. They ran across the hot asphalt, wat......

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Categories: stringy, abortion, anxiety, cinderella, extended
Form: McWhirtle



The Abandonment
...It was full of long stringy grass which had grown out, all over the back of the house. It hung over the bare walls. The briars were everywhere and they would prick you clean red blooded. The shed wid......

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Categories: stringy, absence, earth, environment, garden,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Night Tastes Like
...Night Tastes Like Night tastes like: Hot, black coffee freshly perked. Dark pumpernickel bread fresh out of the oven. Sweet black licorice stringy kind of course. A thick slice of ......

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Categories: stringy, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smuggler's Boat
...Migrants on the move from violence their only possession breath-space on a smuggler’s boat secured with back-bent harvests in pretzel-bent systems weight of crates of strawberries hoisted on ......

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Categories: stringy, boat, death, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse



The Lights
...I am going to see the lights. The glow of the city will make a perfect backdrop to the painting I am envisioning. Far enough away to see the twinkle of headlights and the shine of skyscrapers, but ......

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Categories: stringy, anger, depression, emotions, mental
Form: Free verse
Hair
...Don't make a difference, gender/sex Strands of different textures Styles so profound with variety Stiff, sticky, tacky, wet, or dry Products keep it tamed for styles Wavy, curly, straight, strin......

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Categories: stringy, beautiful, color, humanity, vanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Windy Words Within
...A silent storm rages on in my head winds whisking into a symbolic swirl. Though all alone, I lie here in my bed spinning wound up words twisted till they twirl. Peel off outer layers, see deep ......

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Categories: stringy, introspection, joy, philosophy, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ode To The Snake
...wiry wily snakily snake like a load of spaghetti all coily not straight roundy and writhy curly with flow like stringy all knotty and cotton to sew a scribble of dribble all longy in l......

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Categories: stringy, animal, dedication, imagery, nature,
Form: Light Verse
The Cost of Living
...A faceless man is standing in produce. He’s crying. No one stops. No one asks him why. He says the sky is falling He says it again and again. He grabs a passerby’s arm and tell them it’s fallin......

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Categories: stringy, depression, grief, jobs, lost
Form: Free verse
Miezer Man and the Scarecrow
...I live in a "Mean Peoplez Zone" soou leave me alone: I'll introduce to you to my dad Miezzer. So stringy is he and I'll let you see: he's so cheap he waits for clothes to go on sale at goodwi......

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Categories: stringy, beautiful, halloween, music, song,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Luxury Anyone Can Afford And Priceless
...There are times in our lives We see something others don't see Or don't want to see. Many years ago I was sat in a park enjoying the warm weather. The birds were chirping The trees and grass ......

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Categories: stringy, blessing, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avuncular viscosity ::Graphic content::
... (Probably more a short story than free verse In any case it’s true, seen through my eyes as a child) He was a heavy smoker sat by the fire Coughing and wheezing hacking up phlegm spitting......

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Categories: stringy, child, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Corpse of a Hissing Cat
...Sooty black and thin boned, velvet almost, but stringy. Hard to define the shape of a hissing cat that was so soon alive and kicking, but now lies dead on my neighbor's lawn. I would watch i......

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Categories: stringy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Adoption
...Just one year ago today we found you abandoned, neglected and left for dead With one stringy vine drooped over the pot I would have discarded you but instead My wife felt something stirring ins......

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Categories: stringy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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