Get Your Premium Membership

Velveteen Poems - Poems about Velveteen

Premium Memberkundalini

...
When the saint sun
is reborn from
the womb of wisteria,
rising above symphonies ~
scripting a saga,
of enlightenment
and coral coloured karma,
I ripple in rosettes,
as an avatar
of him...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, deep, devotion, emotions, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberthe sage soothsayer hears spirit

...her aged hands smoothed the velveteen cloth
a floatie travelled across the upper corner of her right eye
was spirit here already?

She peered into her crystal ball, quieting herself
messages flo...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMemento on the Moon

...I blow smoke of dreams to daffodil streams,
beneath the sky, engrossed in love’s last sigh,
while this heart quivers, drunk on astral fever,
in the kohl-lined arms of the cold midnight,
         ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, moon,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Bard's Babble

...
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I

I weep by a stardust shore...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, metaphor, poetry, poets, satire,
Form: Free verse

Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears

...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears...

of diverse and sundry sizes engaged 
in woebegone wild rumpus
as a last hoorah 
for diversity, equity and inclusion,
whose somber bowed heads
(hide t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSea of Roses

...
O n c e upon
 a medieval arc, 
when the coral night 
 was engrossed in 
     fuchsia epitaphs of fireflies,
your fingers,
  embalmed
in the fangs of february moon,
shredded the love ~
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, angst, deep, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVaporizing Whispers

...I'm torn in poetry ~ 
like a fractured syllable 
scattered across 
altars of glistening gold, 
mirroring the maskless faces 
of those, who once 
sold their sanctity for sins. 
Perhaps, the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, deep, destiny, devotion, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Dreamscapes in Minuet

...Act I: 
Gaze a burning gift of a rainbow kaleidoscope reflecting a passage into the wavering pine of mesmerizing clouds and surreal meadows with candy mushroom tops and valleys of poured sugar. 

...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, animal, bird, dark, death,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEurydice and Her Moonbeamed Tresses

...
Why in his presence, did her soft heart, always like  sweet 
cotton candy melt?
Orchestral songs engendered the tenderest feelings, to her 
heart, so aquamarine velvet.

Such starlit, subtle, ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, beautiful, imagery, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRaining in Summer

...
If the sun married the rain - It would become a rainbow (quote by poet)

This aquamarine aquarium is a prismatic prison,
reflecting a reality of a pseudo persona
and I've become tired from pret...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, angst,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberEtched Humanity

...
Written: April 24, 2024
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tread of life
      a strand of hair
           disassociation
desolation    devastation     
floribunda      fl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, analogy, humanity, peace,
Form: Other

Premium MemberPoetesses

...The cherish of the pearled constellations reflect
in her eyes, so wondrous her eyes.
It is the hour of the romance of the spring equinox,
the saints are whispering in their night vespers. 
Her mu...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRegrets Of The Raspberry Moon

...

When cyan night's 
raspberry moon
is dipped in softness 
of the afterglows, 
I gaze at that glossy
first evening star between 
creamy fingers of 
my cherry palm, 
which trace lunar ki...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStars Of Clarity

...
I still reminisce when it was raining incessantly at 3:55 a.m. in the nascent ticks of time on a wistful wednesday. My skin felt the spark of crying hail and maybe, the snow-storms melted t...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, blessing, dream, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberWho Can Fault That?

...Casual lion lounges in his 70’s jacket
It is made of velvet, not velveteen
Softer than his mane if you can believe it
We wait for his words of wisdom
He is the king of beasts and of the forest

...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: velveteen, animal, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry