Why Poems - Poems about Why

Don't know why I couldn't fly When I had the wings and all, Don't know why I didn't try Was I much too afraid to fall Teetering on the bridge that day Arms outstretched, toes to the edge, Then again, who would jump anyway From such a treacherous ledge Looking down from an incredible height My last breath caught in...

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WHY THE SUFFERING OF MAN- 1. I don't know I don't understand The promises of mistrust of man Why? The misfortune and disarray Who’s to say we should live this way Please release The opening in the skies Lord Jesus come, come on by Come down and take your children Back to Our Father Elohim I don't know why we cry 2. I no sabi I no Di promises for mistrust...

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Why does the sun sympathize with the man in the black shirt who is delirious with success? That looking at the window is the door to all happiness For him, an effective way to achieve this is with a pair of shoes And put the gold in his shirt pocket The sun was at my toes as...

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Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hush Reckoning breezes yield cats' paws beckoning…teases across the flanking field Fairies’ wield spells conveyed in lush dappled glades of plush bluebell dells Stacked cumulus collage..shield cracked by dazzling azure shard mirage Chubby clouds’ japes..conjuring cannily hung...

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What purpose does it serve to negate light, given that upon death we must return, restored as our Self, dancing in delight, healed from bleeding wounds that in life did burn? Descent and ascent is God’s plan divine, where our soul’s tempered in the sacred fire, love enabled when we choose to align, ego consigned to the funeral pyre. Barren is awareness bereft...

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Once I thrilled to Homer’s Odyssey to his Iliad equally ‘Til I hurt my sacroiliac ~ and traded literature for TV ...

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I don't even know at all why It is that I enjoy being high....

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, how do you choose the fairest of them all? why do you get to pick apart every single person that never gave you the right? Snow White ate less and less apples until she became so thin a gust of wind could’ve blown her away and she needed a strange man to save her What if he tried...

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I accidentally burned my breakfast toast. I gave a thirty minute monologue on this heinous crime. To what’s left of the crust, I stared, then cursed, then laughed so hard the room shivered and in the echoes— Surprise! I found the voice I choked for being ‘inappropriate’— —Time to toast. I was startled by my cracked laughter, as the cat groomed herself indifferently witnessing my twenties spent...

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"How sad when it comes to face the world as an orphan! Chasing shadows, he/she searches for the love and protection lost. Having no trail to follow, the search goes on endless"~ By Poet I am a street urchin, cruelly abandoned, and hurled into the bin like a piece of trash, now roaming to find the...

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Why I Write He asks why I write And I say I must Because the words, you see Flow as easy as blood in my veins The pen as natural as the air I breathe Without it, I explain The maze of my mind couldn't handle it He asks how I write And I say that my method cannot be taught For my...

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There is a reason rooserpecked is not a word And henpecked is not thought to be absurd....

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2024.05.18 One year ago, on a Saturday @ 20:10:00, I wrote "Now, I just remember something to ask you. If I lost my memory and/or Was not able to read English any more, Would you be kind enough to read my life story back to me? Nay, maybe not, by then You would have a lovely family To enjoy and...

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Collecting collateral fuzzy Fred said Keeping the secret of his co-worker Ned Ned was unconcerned, he paid the money Fred is missing, reported his live-in Honey This man has not been found since ‘84 Ned is relieved, he’s not been extorted anymore...

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Why Can't You Be Serious? I Am Always Asked That; And I Try To Think Of An Honest Answer All Of The Time. I Am Serious. I Am Too Serious. I Am WAYYY TOO SERIOUS! Thanks A Lot! (Effin' Spoiler-Alert.) Use the correct tone of voice. Shut-up! -Gray Squirrel 05-16-2025 ...

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