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Underside Poems - Poems about Underside

Premium Member A Dare
...I pressed my body into gravel and oil, the earth shuddering like it knew my name. Wind tore at my hair— hot metal screaming above me, the stink of burnt grease and fear beside me. Too late, I th......

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Categories: underside, adventure, childhood, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers Beneath the Veil
...Where the wild things grow, you are mine, In tangled roots and ivy’s twine. A love that blooms where shadows play, In secret realms the world can’t stay. Your love got me clowning, spinning in ......

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Categories: underside, love, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Impending
...Moments become wet steppingstone over a stream of consciousness. At breakfast, a TV delivers omens with a perky disposition. Buttering grilled bread, distracted by normality, slipping through th......

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Categories: underside, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How Ohio Came to Fame
...A fragment of matted stone breaks surface, it is already colonized by moss and fungi factories. Eventually all will churn green spawns to green lawns, not yet of course, ‘yet’ has t......

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Categories: underside, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Open Letter to the Flat Earth Society
...Do you sometimes use GPS To navigate your flat world? Did you ever wonder how all those satellites Get around to the underside? Do you use a flush toilet Or a siphon? See, fluids can sometime......

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Categories: underside, education, science, world,
Form: Didactic



Eye a generic happy go lucky arachnid hoped for a miracle
...Eye (a generic happy go lucky arachnid) hope(d) for a miracle Harken and cue lyrics to All I Need Is a Miracle Song by Mike + The Mechanics. Aye, a quizzical hunky-dory spied re: anomaly doth......

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Categories: underside, adventure, analogy, animal, august,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sartorial Self Portrait
...bomber jacket, dark glasses blown out hair, faded jeans that fit me slim, brown leather belt and shoes, a dangling cigarette between lips, is how I would fancy look! Reality is something els......

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Categories: underside, clothes, cute love, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stately Iris Flower
...The Stately Iris Flower Bearded irises are tall and stately in form They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips A swollen stem where......

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Categories: underside, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Taunts
... Winter taunts with his sunset blushing the underside of clouds with colors of Spring blossom pinks stretched across the waning sky. Painted as with an artist’s expert brush......

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Categories: underside, depression, spring, sunset, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member September Monarchs
...From the underside of a milkweed leaf you appeared to me, oh butterfly you spanned and metamorph before my eyes from a tiny caterpillar to a creature full of flame. They call you the common tiger ......

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Categories: underside, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ladybug
...Ladybug, my Ladybug, Large you're not and not a slug. Leaves you-leap to so cute my little bug. Like Strawberry wings does my heart you tug. Light and small you are zephyr does snug. ......

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Categories: underside, insect, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
Remorseless Sweaty Palms
...Remorseless sweaty palms despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate. Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and in......

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Categories: underside, 12th grade, anger, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Late
...It sticks to the underside of what's out there, a shadow on the other side of knowing, waiting, growing and creeping closer when eyes are focussed elsewhere. It prefers not to have a nam......

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Categories: underside, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bluestocking
... "Bluestocking" Blue blew in like the truth in many different shades one tried immersing in shades of shadow but the light was louder Blue blew in like a neo......

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Categories: underside, blue, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Under a Winding Blacktop
...Slow or fast we think behind a slip stream, a contrail of the gone; of what went by a momentary window long ago. Asleep under a blacktop, street-cars roll over my me-mind, the cr......

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Categories: underside, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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