Tense Poems - Poems about Tense

...The air in here is really dense The room is completely tense Feelings are out in the open We are both wishin' and hopin' This gets settled really fast Before emotions stir and blast Us both wit......Read the rest...

...Villanelle by Michael R. Burch Is poetry mere turning of a phrase? Has prose become its height and depth and sum? What happened to the songs of yesterdays? Does prose leave all nine Muses ve......Read the rest...

... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......Read the rest...

...exist-tent t.v. can be as an exist-tense bee... without exist-sense t.v. buzzing what an... advertise-meant as some 'not' of existence... rather than thee 'knot-roots' of a system where-in......Read the rest...

...Heavy and eerie silence reigned therein, The dark rooms looking as sullen as mean, As if they had taken serious offence Against me who had failed in their esteem, My heart feeling contrite wa......Read the rest...

...It felt like yesterday that we were riding our bikes down our empty street The streets we ruled, the streets we got to keep As if tomorrow was never going to come The sun would grow old above us a......Read the rest...

...Once there was back when In the history of “then” ‘Fore the “be” began In these days of yore The people lived before, for There was nothing more ‘Twas a different time When the latest lagg......Read the rest...

...In time when night turned to dawn, I could see, It all appeared like sheer fantasy. Light-hearted, I put on my office hat, And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat To drive away myself to sink ......Read the rest...

... Although it's a well worn cliche, there is something soothing in the thought of lying in bed listening to rain. Last night I was front row in a symphony. An adagio of soft fall, murmurings ......Read the rest...

...I’ve heard people say it online, “Stop living in the past, don’t you know it’s the current year, you’ve got to catch up fast.” Most often said by Marxist types, which just seems strange to me, ......Read the rest...

...BABEL It was a tower, built to avoid a second flood Erected in Babylonia, that Nimrod planned Using bricks made from sun-hardened mud It was to deny the power of God’s own hand But to a prou......Read the rest...

...it's chilly, it's tense, the morning i saw you lay down on the floor– i meant to annoy you... my voice was choked up, i couldn't shout out. the voices i heard were getting too loud. it's......Read the rest...

...I’ve been considering defense In the context of the past tense In wars that we’ve waged Where our troops have been staged Who fought as though they had been caged They employed Violence o......Read the rest...

...Within a tear I shed Lists all the deeds I dread Things that I have done From which I wish I could run Or perhaps bury in the sun So, they would burn away And I wouldn’t have to pay But l......Read the rest...

...What good is intelligence If have no common sense Pretence Sitting on a fence Violence Going to war with no defence Offense No supported evidence A jail sentence Recompense False Reverence......Read the rest...