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Tannin Poems

Coasters Stop You From Seeping Into Me, Do I Secretly Want You To?

...I cradle you in both hands—
the cup is hotter than the blood in me.
I sip until my tongue blisters,
as if pain is the only proof
that I can still be filled.

The table is a witness—
its pale s...

Categories: tannin, cute, cute love, drink,
Form: Free verse

A Sheltering Light at Ironwood

...The sun sets leaping in fierce golden shafts
As days shift shorter with Winter’s warning
We seek emblazoned fires from the chilled drafts
That glaze windows from iced winds each morning

As twil...

Categories: tannin, beauty, earth, imagery, introspection,
Form: Sonnet

Portage

...I trace a path between the rocks, jagged cold and grey
that whip the waves into a froth; tea-like tannin stain

Is this a place that we can pass, safe, Or should we stay?
For rapids, falls, and t...

Categories: tannin, boat,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Abandoned Rhymes: Crumpled Pages

...I heard taunting echoes and scurrilous snarls.
It was my conscience, and I listened as it spoke
in accusations, contemptible remarks aimed at me.
Shameful words delivered to break my falle...

Categories: tannin, depression, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

The Last Barrel

...Like wine,
these older days
are vintage

Aging,
as each days number
declines

Ripe
in the tannin
of what remains

Rich
in the sweetness
of time now past

The vines
to wither
—in mem...

Categories: tannin, time,
Form: Free verse

The Haunting Adventures of a Dirty Blonde Knight-Mighty Ego Trip

...Escaping from the wintry plight 
Fearless knight 
Having golden locks 
With a physique like a rock 
Walked up and down the mountainous block 
In the village filled with sweets 
And treats 
Bac...

Categories: tannin, fantasy, hero, lust, marriage,
Form: Rhyme

Is It a Mountainous Moo

...The keys to a duck monument are timely hidden by an egg basket. Egg baskets can play marvellous games of ball in the high season when the brilliance of the sun passes through the earthenware titles l...

Categories: tannin, allah, art, bangla, baseball,
Form: I do not know?

Drug

...A state of every mind full of stuffs or empty 
 What it needs a drug?
A pain, a pleasure, spiritual, religious…
In every gathering   is like a form of drug
For physiological change in body
Daily...

Categories: tannin, addiction, drink, sick, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse

Weightlessness of Harmony

...Imagine
Floating on your back, eyes
Shut to all but the hush of sunlight
Buoyant to the lightness of being with only
Birds and insects flinging airs at
Ears immersed in the cool tannin
Stained ...

Categories: tannin, dream, imagination, nature, senses,
Form: Free verse

In Praise of Tea

...Refreshing drink – there’s nothing finer,
When you’re parched and really gasping –
Darjeeling tea in fine bone china,
Mark the subtle, fresh aroma
Spiralling up in wisps of steam.

It wakes the...

Categories: tannin, drink, patriotic,
Form: Free verse

Conversion

...CONVERSION


I have signed the pledge of success:

Stood in the group and confessed

To drinking tea and coffee to excess;




But now I have seen the light, I'm better  -

No more tannin and caffein...

Categories: tannin, funny,
Form: Monorhyme

Modern Cowboy

...I love that cowboy, lean and tall...
I see him lumber to the stall,
To cool his horse from ridin hard,
He tips his hat...says, "Howdy pard!"

I love that cowboy in his jeans,
With well-worn cha...

Categories: tannin, angst, cowboy-western, lost love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Modern Cowboy

...I love that cowboy, lean and tall...
I see him lumber to the stall,
To cool his horse from ridin hard,
He tips his hat...says, "Howdy pard!"

I love that cowboy in his jeans,
With well-worn cha...

Categories: tannin, love, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry