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Tempering Poems - Poems about Tempering

Premium Member The Heart
...Drummer for the Ages the heart, never entirely retreats -- admits only recalescent rests... radiant pauses, between life’s many Tempering beats --......

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Categories: tempering, desire, heart, heartbreak, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I paid no heed to the call of the sirenS
...I paid no heed to the call of the siren(s) where amble lances hurled with the might of off fish hull seductress dances setting figurative stage to take a bite from canoodling beastie boy bes......

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Categories: tempering, abuse, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Age and Circumstance
...Age and circumstance conspire As the will waffles Beneath the weight Of the unanticipated Present A gift They called it This aging thing A crumpled box Found in the dark corner Of forgetf......

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Categories: tempering, age, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once A Year
...Once a year in the early spring I scatter some reclaimed seeds from a section of yard where the wild flowers grow -- a reserved place, there left unattended how they bloom, all on their......

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Categories: tempering, allegory, butterfly, cat, flower,
Form: Free verse
February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024
...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024 I believed fortune cookie maxim cryptic message couched Apple Macbook Pro update process alternately titled “markedly a L......

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Categories: tempering, absence, abuse, adventure, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When Blackbirds Came
...I remember when windchimes nestled in the heart rainbows soothed the tainted cay of innocents a golden candle tempering the fang of dark I prayed, good spirits would always reign. I remember th......

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Categories: tempering, childhood,
Form: Narrative
HEART GENTLE EYE MINDFUL
...HEART GENTLE EYE MINDFUL Keep heart gentle, yet eye mindful With passion hovering at the edge There’s a time and place for both Rarely twinned, but each required Balance is kept with a critica......

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Categories: tempering, heart,
Form: Rhyme
How to attach a shower curtain
...How to attach a shower curtain... I revisit rather than write from scratch a poem crafted May twenty third two thousand and twenty since the following words apropos and amply serve a duplicat......

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Categories: tempering, abuse, angel, appreciation, business,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Walk through the Forest
... Seeping through families of oaks, Surrounded by pines, laurels and all… Gentle leaves, so alive – yes, they breathe, Silent like the peace I find here, Enclosed in their embrace, Soft music......

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Categories: tempering, appreciation, flower, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi
...youth, where imperfections trip upon each other and opportunistic peers joyfully celebrate the folly - glass tree houses be damned... and - a spun bottle breaks blood brotherhoods where fragil......

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Categories: tempering, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greed to Grace: a Psychodynamic Diamante
... Id greedy, primal starving, seeking, clamoring, impulsive, wild, mild, deliberative, prohibiting, sanctioning, tempering, sangfroid, equanimity, Superego......

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Categories: tempering, culture, life, psychological,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SOVEREIGN HEAD
... November 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 11-12 Key Verse – 1Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of th......

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Categories: tempering, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
She Laid There Peacefully
...I watched her sleep , And almost dropped a tear Because she laid there peacefully And all i wanted to do was borrow her ear I wanted to tell her things..these things That haunt me even when I'......

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Categories: tempering, absence, abuse, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind
...Ah, Wind, we've known each other so long. While creatures run quickly from your side, I've tried to find kindness in your song but your howls become hard to abide. You loudly roar blowing door......

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Categories: tempering, conflict, earth, sound, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Starts
...All poets start somewhere... good ones never finish – all poems subject to theme, mapped or an impulse just to travel~ wherever...I think we met somewhere in the Wherever, years of treasure ......

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Categories: tempering, inspirational, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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