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Tattering Poems - Poems about Tattering

Tattering Poems - Examples of all types of poems about tattering to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for tattering.

The City On the Sea
...The angry sea tosses, waves on a jetty of stone, at the edge of the great square. Under a dark and torn sky, the wind screams and moves, lifting the waves of the sea, going thro doors and betwe......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Tree Couldn'T Fly
...THE TREE COULDN'T FLY This lonely desolate tree wanted to fly The southern wind told this strange tree Go up high with the branches and try Catch the sun, free you woul......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, analogy, desire, flying, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Organic Gratitude
...Eastern stars light our responsibility to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other. Western horizons speak not of suffering much less death as inevitable failure. Dark horizons speak of ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, birth, blessing, culture, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Heart Betrayed Me
...I spend each wakeful night in search of evasive sleep. An unwelcomed vigil denies me peaceful rest. I've need to bury his haunting specter somewhere deep; entombing forever my perpetual un......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, betrayal, emotions, heartbroken, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
A Missed Poem
...=Pulpit and the Pews= When she bends She needed you most. You reposed And labelled her- Flagrant eloquent noise. Now perceives wide-awake There and then mews- Nothing to say. Who’s fooling who? ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, africa, art, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Cursed To Exhale
...If i could exhale, really exhale, To expire the rubble of the ages, 1000 years of dread off my belly, and my fingertips once so dainty then could grasp stars and not burn, I dig my face into the di......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, allah, courage, dance, dark,
Form: Sestina
The Marionette
...imagined by others, s/he is approached as the perfect candidate, s/he is that last perfect puzzle piece, which will make the whole monstrosity, complete & not a shred of talent matters, not a shred ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Annihilative Obliteration
...Self-loathing and beating A dark passage placed Beneath the old ways Where darkness dwells Sadness runs rampant And depression reigns I visit this lonesome place At times when I’m down It pays to ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, depression, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Silver In Mud
...no more small talk to say in numbers walking the trail and these are added up and equal now us on the mountain marsh exploring in the mind's eye glittering like water oozing quicksilvers under th......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, nature
Form: Free verse
The Muse of Immolation
...Black wings are beating a sharp tattoo, A-tattering on your skull. A raven is perched on all of you There is: a bone-white hull. The love of your youth, she floats in mist. Your triumphs and ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, death
Form: Verse
Witted Injustice
...Peace was beyond me the other night, violence tested me with painful plight, moseying tricks to loiter and fall, the notions of proper etiquette's crawl, See, violence only acts as fare, to di......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, faithme,
Form: Rhyme
The Oldest Song
...I. The rhythm of war is the ancient roll Of the tattering, martial drum, The slick of the boots—and the perfect salutes— The drummer boy’s dum-da-dum. II. The lyrics of war are the usual ......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, warwar, war,
Form: Verse
An Old Soldier's Lament
...Let them tell the old lie no more For we who went out desolate Desolate returned to the empty shore Laden with wounds that shall not heal Deep mental scars tattering us more Who left our fragmen......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, warold, old,
Form: Free verse
My Cloud
...A silver plane is writing I...LOVE...YOU Upon that paper called the sky, And someone down below---I'm sure it's true--- Feels lightly winged and high. This missile in my hand writes just the sa......Read the rest...
Categories: tattering, happiness, love
Form: Rhyme

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