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Tomblike Poems - Poems about Tomblike


We All Float
...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade. Each mortal she ensnares,......

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Categories: tomblike, dark,
Form: Free verse
Something Like Me and You
...I want us to swim, In our new bodies, Which buttress our boney disproportion. I want the fish to be enticed, By our old skins Which serve as useless armour to this world. I want the cold to be unre......

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Categories: tomblike, loss, love, ocean, sister,
Form: I do not know?



The Scent of God
...(This poem is dedicated to Beryl Singleton Bissell, whose book of this name reveals her love affair and sometime contretemps with God. I thank her for graciously consenting to a poetic adoption of......

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Categories: tomblike, allegory, mystery, planet,
Form: Free verse
The Watchdog
...I have seen them strutting like cockerels on podiums sweating like pigs in their ill-fitting suits words bubbling out of their snake forked tongues -democracy!- development!- unity! I have seen them......

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Categories: tomblike, social,
Form: Narrative
Resurrection
...After a painful walk Through the dark of night Where anger is the talk In unforgiving realms of strife His love shone through Lightening tomblike coves That allowed a better view Raising in th......

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Categories: tomblike, faith, hope, inspirational
Form: Rhyme




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