Underside Poems - Poems about Underside

cranky bee

...cranky bee was born on the underside of the hive
he has been cranky since minutes old, maybe five
this was from his mother, but his daddy agreed
He has always been angry, always seems peeved.

y...

play park is now a dog park

...Baby swing unused for eight years
Glider has sat dormant since 2019
Dual slides; who was the last one to slide down them?
I do not remember because it has been a while
I congratulate myself on ma...

Before The Gates Of Alahsar - Version 2 - 32

...The Dark men fought on past their mother,
many had seen the mighty one fall
they fought on with bitter hate,
as now, once more, did the mother of the storm.
Her spear flashed lightning,
she stir...

A Dare

...I pressed my body 
into gravel and oil,
the earth shuddered 
like it knew my name.
Wind tore at my hair—
hot metal screamed above me,
the stink of burnt grease 
and fear beside me.
Too late, ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.
...

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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