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Tunnelling Poems - Poems about Tunnelling

Crush

...I was skating on Saturn’s rings,
Ice shards tunnelling into my vision
Like blistering diamond tears
Melting away into a brilliant blue.

I was skating on Saturn’s rings,
Looked up and saw the m...

Categories: tunnelling, 12th grade, analogy, love,
Form: Verse

In An Instant

...As he spoke,  
His words were like a hammer, shattering the defences of darkness.  
They were like light tunnelling through the night.  
They were like the sun rising to brighten the sky.  

Oh,...

Categories: tunnelling, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

My Favourite Teacher

...“The teacher is called from the deep. He carries you on his shoulders so you can see beyond the shrivelled meadow.”
                                      -	Quote by Poet 

Though I had left high s...

Categories: tunnelling, teacher, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Unity in Disparity

...Why do we engage in rancour and strife?
Our differences are the pieces of a puzzle called life,
Each piece brought from its end,
Some pieces brought out of the night,
Some pieces were foun...

Categories: tunnelling, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme

Show Me God

...I fumbled across it, 
whilst tunnelling under a tree
The one superfluous atom,
left over from reality 
Now positioned straight ahead, 
looking directly into me
Emerging from some quanta,
imper...

Categories: tunnelling, allusion, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme

Views From the Porch

...Suburbia sprawls around the front porch.
        Shy deer peep out of front windows
then whisk out of sight.
The groundhog is delivering news of the day,
he thumps his paws, morse coding headline...

Categories: tunnelling, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tunnelling

...Haze.
Constant urges.
Distraction.
Wrinkles in skin,
And in sheets.
Unsaid.
Unthinkable.
Daring.
Would I? Dare.
One step closer.
Deeper.
Tunnels.
Branches.
Static, constantly.
Quiet is ...

Categories: tunnelling, deep, lost, psychological,
Form: List

Sounds of Autumn

...Beneath the garden wood pile I hear sounds of excavation
As a hedgehog starts preparing for his autumn hibernation

My tortoise getting drowsy ready for his autumn sleep
Is tunnelling beneath the...

Categories: tunnelling, autumn, sleep, sound,
Form: Couplet

A Mid-Winter Night

...Moonlight oft softens the summer night,
but comforts are few, in the deep of night
when winter arrives with its vicious bite,
and we shiver to see our world turned white.

Winter is cold, starkl...

Categories: tunnelling, nature, winter,
Form: Rhyme

My Response To Rumi

...16.12.2016

"If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill,
Let yourself fall ill"
-Jalaluddin Rumi


You must have been asleep, Rumi,
waking from a dream
with such careless words.
Illness ...

Categories: tunnelling, angst, caregiving, family, health,
Form: Free verse

Stalag Luft Iii ( Stammlager Luft )

...Let me take you back
To 1942
In Sagan ( Zagan ) Poland
In World War II
 
Their was built a camp
For prisoners of war
Primarily Air Force
Heroes galore
 
The site was selected
To escape the...

Categories: tunnelling, death, dedication, history, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Get a Life

...'Get a life'
arrow-words, jarring, ripping the womb
of reality.
and the entrails of possibilities gush forth
to form redemptive streams.

'Get a life'
Drill-bit words, tunnelling iron mountain...

Categories: tunnelling, education, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse