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Tongs Poems - Poems about Tongs

Barren Blind
...Meteors fall in wastelands forgotten. Poets, bards, sing. Taciturn, red, rotten. Silver at twilight, seeing stones kept clear. Seer, grind gear in the severe atmosphere. Barren lands are kept on ......

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Categories: tongs, change,
Form: Rhyme
A Literal Dick Measuring Contest
...I laid down my long schlong On a table full of kong dongs The judges had short tongs To flip the dongs flop the men and women on song You wouldn't guess who won? God, Tom, John, Cock? No, y......

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Categories: tongs, anger, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member pause the cause
...“may gifts of silence illumine our mind ~ childlike heart becoming loving and kind” ~ quote by poet as we gather pebbles in our heart’s nest we may do well to pause and t......

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Categories: tongs, desire, self, silence, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A not so quaint Saint'
...Poet and saint Dunstan was great, pushed in a cesspool.' He arose.' He survived he was no fool.' Archbishop He would be' Counsel to Kings. Often gave he! humble yet strong he Ordered lexicons stu......

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Categories: tongs, appreciation, city, history,
Form: Other
Premium Member Eels of Kalapana's Queens Bath
..."Kalapana Queens Bath was a hole in the ground filled with brackish water (salty seawater mixed with fresh mountain filled rainwater) and host to living mysteries," ... by The Poet. It......

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Categories: tongs, beautiful, childhood, color, imagery,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member sedulous
...pull out all the stops keep your shoulder to the wheel go the extra mile bust your chops sweat blood work your fingers to the bone bend over backwards go to great lengths put ......

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Categories: tongs, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Hidden in plain sight
...love is a lofty ideal croon of tenderness sounds right, feels good but how may we share what we do not have a hollow emptiness engulfs our body-mind womb of space suffocates we ar......

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Categories: tongs, i am, self, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Cannot Speak of Such Atrocity
...compassion felt in my chest, in my abdominals, in my mind…it hurts i cannot speak of such atrocity as I have heard about i feel sick what inhuman entity would do such things no human ......

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Categories: tongs, christian,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ice Picked
...by tongs ready set a melt down I hate it......

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Categories: tongs, absence,
Form: Free verse
Light the Fuse and Wait
...An applecart of half-eaten ideas pushed into sight by heavyweight ghosts. Wormwood and cider the aroma of root beer in a lit-up air. The poet pauses….judges the hunger of his next line to f......

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Categories: tongs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snowing Inside-Minneapolis 2022
...cigarette falling, snow- ing in- side the bronco, buck- ing ash two-digit scissors reach- ing like tongs passenger’s eyes pop driver retrieves, revels, masters the smoke; a joke ......

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Categories: tongs, funny, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bliss Beats Beckon
... To walk the talk over burning hot coal Tests the mettle of God-bestowed free will Debate ensues between ego and soul By hammer and tongs, shaped on the anvil Hesitation signals we......

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Categories: tongs, love, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Ashtavakra Gita Verse 19:1
... 19.1 “With the tongs of Truth I have plucked the thorn of thinking from the innermost cave of my heart” ~~~ Verse revisited on 20-March-2022 A burning yearning aris......

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Categories: tongs, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Olive Garden Blues
... A Pentecostal writer of songs Quit a waitress job she thought was wrong. At the bar, sings and plays ‘Bout her wild salad days. See, back then, she was speaking in tongs. ......

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Categories: tongs, silly,
Form: Limerick
A Kiss of Death
...A KISS OF DEATH I sensed isolation I felt botherd, broken and ablazed I know I'm too far away Into the darkened route of blank moon Into a negative stream of sentiment In an off-circle ......

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Categories: tongs, betrayal, death, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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