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Sweepings Poems - Poems about Sweepings

Rain Babble

...Often
the rain has something to say to me,
but this rainy day
it is hyperactively neurotic.
Each of my shoes are waterlogged
by a squelching sky-fall.

Then again there is the soggy dribble
w...

Categories: sweepings, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Our World's Coinhabitants

...With as little thought, think you
Can be brushed aside
All their concerns, as waste of
Sweepings to one side?

Then have you not once witnessed
The regard given
To duck clans, a road, crossing...

Categories: sweepings, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Behold the Workings

...A spider thin calligraphy, a varicose script
upon the shallow sheen of mortality.

Are these the genetics of a divine act
arriving as green stems,
weeds and blooms all in a tangle?
A scratchy n...

Categories: sweepings, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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The Penny-Toy Man

...He has always lived here.
Scarred in his tenement jail and
locked within the dreams of
forgotten children.

He has always walked here.
In lane and yard, he strolls and
sings his mournful song ...

Categories: sweepings, dark, fear, history, london,
Form: Free verse

October Sweepings

...Thresholds curl into entrances
where damp crows circle.
I can see through the hedge
where the wind is barelegged.
A groundhog carries sparrow bones
from the bare shelves of dawn.
Hallow...

Categories: sweepings, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Answer To Complaint Part 4

...Nor Usman’s treasure-chest you own, Nor Ali’s empty bowl,
With spirits of such great forbears, What kinship has your soul?
The honoured of their times, they lived, For theirs was true iman,
You li...

Categories: sweepings, allah, faith,
Form: Heroic Couplet

The Past

...a thing beyond,
once kept close
now
an aberration
a cipher
in patterns of dust
in the 
       sweepings
of my yesterdays,
a happening
that has become
history...

Categories: sweepings, history, perspective,
Form: Verse

Uncertain

...Heed then the touch of certainty
That mellows in uncertainty


There is a strange reason why change
Fabricates an odd feeling strange


Embrace the conflict that confronts
As soul and mind a...

Categories: sweepings, change,
Form: Couplet

Will Work For Food

...Against a fence, glib looks descend; 
somethings will not mend.

Pockets empty, belly too, fill it 
With sweepings, firewood chopped
From dried old yew.


Ignomeny? Plain to see. The past 
C...

Categories: sweepings, poverty,
Form: Verse

Concord Massachusetts Passingways

...Haunted...
glowing foot falls on the dusted wooden planks cross the bridge
following them 
I swing around enormous trees 
skirt quickly...trying to catch up

were we holding hands as we walked
...

Categories: sweepings, funeral, garden, history, i
Form: Free verse

In Blessed Calm

...In blessed calm I rest
pink and pale and soft and light

The sun rises and I break open... smile at it
a seed bursting to life
I stretch my roots out beneath the surface 
spread wide and long and str...

Categories: sweepings, happiness, love, peace, universe,
Form: Free verse

Just Want To Write Part 2 Prose Poetry

...Now I have discovered baloney and waffle listed under a words in relationship to 
nonsense. What other kinds of food can I find listed in reference to nonsense?   
Drivel lists foolishness, poppyco...

Categories: sweepings, funny, imagination, words,
Form: Free verse