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Stumps Poems - Poems about Stumps

A Nurse Dies in a Far Away Land
...The leather tethers kept loosening. I had to pull at them until they dug into your body binding you to a rocking cross. It was all for nothing you died snapping at unseen knives, arching up, ......

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Categories: stumps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Murky Mists of Narcissists Trysts
...Varnished Tech Titans Tattered totems tarnished Viral tribal bible spiral Tainted talismans taunted Cash cows flaunted Gerontocracy trumps democracy Theocracy stumps hypocrisy Autocracy dumps ......

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Categories: stumps, international, technology,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Bum and The Mob Boss
...Savaging what he has left after the mafia takes his last bowl of soup his last slice of bread his last cup of coffee the mob boss then gives the bum a cigarette and a light pats him on th......

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Categories: stumps, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Wings have been lost in the abyss of time, stumps of memories remain suspended on the horizon
...Wings have been lost in the abyss of time, stumps of memories remain suspended on the horizon, shadows dancing before your wandering eyes, you cover them with your palm like a mute spell, you screa......

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Categories: stumps, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Devilment is Afoot
...Leaves of the oak trees congregated in clumps of whispering soldiers A devilment was afoot; the fey felt this and scurried to the meadow. Someone was dragging a heavy sack into the darkest shadows.......

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Categories: stumps, murder, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Sing Spring
... Scavenging squirrels search for acorns, scratching old stumps from trees. Scampering up my sugar maple, they steal my bird feeder seeds. Sleepy salamanders wake from their slumber to search on ......

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Categories: stumps, butterfly, imagery, rainbow, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member SAINT ANTHONY
...THE MANY PATRON SAINTS OH HOW I RELY ON SAINT ANTHONY DURING THE DAYS OF REACHING FOR SOLACE FOR PEACE OF MIND REMEMBERING ME BEFORE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY THEN I COULD THREAD A NEEDLE REMEMBER MY GL......

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Categories: stumps, allah,
Form: Naat
A Walk Through a Small Park
...My lady friend and I sit on stumps. When she sings she rings the woods with a monarch's butterfly wings. A crowd of bikers on foot as hikers in thick with woods unsaddles moods. Old ladies ......

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Categories: stumps, adventure, city, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Unattainable
...Beloved, again, I bargain with my unbridled mind, seeking to find a smile wider than time, and wild eyes like mossy tree stumps, gliding against light, in exchange for all of my re......

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Categories: stumps, absence, dad, father, longing,
Form: Free verse
Hurricane Trump
...Hurricane Trump when made landfall The commotion spelled heavy toll -- His big-ticket orders Flashed red on the borders, Watches he in triumphs Wickets fell around stumps, Sure, warming was ne’......

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Categories: stumps, humor, usa,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AT SCHOOL
...On the sport’s field we started to set up To play cricket but the ground was hard And the stumps would not go in. So my mate Used the cricket bat to hammer them home. The game’s master wa......

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Categories: stumps, anger, school, violence,
Form: Blank verse
The Halt and the Lame
...Some old guy on a park bench looks like Jesus, if Jesus had lived to be some old guy. I'm old, not really, really old but I look older than that guy on the bench. From his coat pocket he scat......

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Categories: stumps, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who am I
...the question who am I stumps our mind no problem just be still shift to heart pulse dual disappears truth is known......

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Categories: stumps, introspection,
Form: Other
Premium Member Yesterday's Wishes
...I wished for trails not strewn with roots nor rocks and stumps that trip a careless step - and thought of how 'twould be so kind for life to benefact a tidy sum so - I could rise and yawn each da......

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Categories: stumps, life,
Form: Blank verse
Chats in the Car
...Chats in the Car We never drive far May be over the mountains As the wheels meet the tar And the bugs find their end Round each terminal bend Yet no fly in the ointment with Conversational f......

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Categories: stumps, car, cheer up, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

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