Whittled Poems - Poems about Whittled

... My mother and father never wavered in their routine. After each one of my siblings sprang into life, my father sat on the porch and spit ‘Day’s Work’ tobacco juice down his chin while my mother sna......Read the rest...

... Trucks hauling away defunct Malls. One city has been transported to another, until superimposed, only the name are different. Freeways chase endless miles, looking for more things to shift, ......Read the rest...

...A Limerick Poem AABBA A limerick A little windowpane trickled on the left behind diamond A cosmic milky way, solitude, and Bed, bath and beyond The word, to and fro, and surreal, a tenant, a......Read the rest...

... He whittled away A very large branch That in 6,000 days Was part of his ranch Yet not just the branch Or a tree or two He whittled a forest Full, through and through For this man and kn......Read the rest...

... Among a group of dull-brown mallard hens, a black duck rests on the raised rim of the park’s reflecting pool. His shape, sleek and smooth, stands out – a silhouette, sharply cut into the glar......Read the rest...

...Never thought I'd live long enough to see a holocaust. A holy slip of land whittled into a divining rod for carnage and death. The footsteps of Jesus filling with blood and moral decay. Perfect wo......Read the rest...

...An old preacher named Ned Got it into his head To make a musical pilgrimage Before he was dead. He claimed divine inspiration To form a band and tour the nation, And by so doing treat its ills,......Read the rest...

...“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa” Spurred by mother dearest as well as other politesse drummed into her second born fobbing blandishments as incentive tumbled off fingers of prodigal son tr......Read the rest...

...Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost... ~ May fourth, 2005 wedded bliss nearly fifty years half a century almost me not most favorite grown offspring, she (when alive) did boast, ab......Read the rest...

...on the waning edge of day sunset rolls white clouds to pink and amber strands sifting back and forth like a quilt's overlay of color a sprawling vista unstoppable the quiet......Read the rest...

...Personal vicissitudes pronounced irrepressible self loathing Ever since mine late boyhood when unstoppable coded cellular processes did segue I experienced abhorrence toward yours truly, an ......Read the rest...

...A former friend of mine tricked me into becoming something I am not The volunteer President of our condo association, a position I clearly cannot afford midst trifling disassociations. We ......Read the rest...

...Beethoven smashes one piano after another. He shears through keyboards, a peasant scything hay. The composer's fingers listen through touch, they become deeper, more blunted, a vibration of mal......Read the rest...

...My horse's haunches sway, Saunter up hillocks and down a valley path, Above a ridge off and on: a village where some people fish, Phosphorescent flotsam washed ashore. Green embers breathe as ......Read the rest...

...Diamonds and pearls twinkle in the moonlight, Lost in a labyrinth of their own design, The last of their kind. I hurry through the maze, In an futile attempt to find them, And bring......Read the rest...