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Yardstick Poems - Poems about Yardstick

Beyond Human Sense
... An invisible decree, a cosmic speed limit, unyielding and absolute. Through vacuums it dances, a silent swift messenger, carrying the echoes of stars. Time bends in its presence, dista......

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Categories: yardstick, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This is What I Call a Loyal Love
...“There is no loyalty greater than the love of a loyal dog.” By Author ************************************************************** This is What I call Loyal L......

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Categories: yardstick, dog, feelings, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member walrus tusks
...Walrus tusks are longer than I thought Length of a yardstick, new and store bought Females' tusks are much longer; they serve as teeth Sharper than a copper dagger in a leather sheaf......

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Categories: yardstick, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member reality check
...what is the way we look at other forms do we feel God’s presence in each soul or is gender, colour or age the yardstick have we imbibed agape love scriptures extol......

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Categories: yardstick, introspection, love,
Form: Rhyme
MOTIVATION
...From the daggers of pain of the failures and miseries in life,the horrors of nightmares of constant defeats like a wounded spartan soldier surrounded by a wide Persian army in the battlefield with t......

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Categories: yardstick, 9th grade, adventure, animal,
Form: Free verse



Strange Heat
...A Strange heat is walking up the street with a heavy load upon its head and a yardstick to measure the dead, it’s walking in a straight line, staring at the glaciers melting from the hill filling the......

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Categories: yardstick, beach, birth, business, city,
Form: Prose
Premium Member To which image should we cling?
...Trailing clouds of glory do we come The magical moments of childhood When we felt at one with the universe Spinning dizzily with delight Or with more of horrible and awful That even to name is......

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Categories: yardstick, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Standards
...Double standards is a thing Judge all the judgments you’ve been judging And you who calls others “unfair” Will find it hard to bear That you are perpetrating victims Whose thoughts clash with ......

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Categories: yardstick, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Roots
... I am younger in words than Shelly or Wordsworth not as old as Shakespear's sonnets, should I care? I never did read a sonnet, that I could bare to eat whole. Those carefully quilted works of......

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Categories: yardstick, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member DIVINE ASSERTIONS FROM A-Z
... Assertions of the Lord for awakening aspirations Book of the Law*, the Bible is for my being’s beauty Compass for existence with points of compassion Direction of soul toward fulfillment driving......

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Categories: yardstick, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member My Annual Resolutions
...Growth should be the ultimate criterion, nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge, for myself and other people who might gain, from a heartfelt commitment such as mine, that monumental new year ......

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Categories: yardstick, adventure, art, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Rose
...Several years ago today They reckoned me unbefitting for their ears Per the yardstick of the day Their percipience was disparaging But still I rose By their clairvoyance I was infecund Plainl......

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Categories: yardstick, discrimination, inspiration, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Judgement Day
...If I'm to judge my own character, What do I use as a just yardstick ? Can I rely on simple reflection, Or use another gauge, that's just as quick ? Will this evaluation be considered f......

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Categories: yardstick, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Rulers
...Following the first thwack we deduced that distance was limited primarily to unpredictable bursts of anger, arbitrary chastisement factors. The rule, all of its dozen commandments plus the ex......

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Categories: yardstick, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Magnolia In Mongolia
...MAGNOLIA IN MONGOLIA Floral gem in a street market Beautiful by any yardstick Offered by flower vendor In crowded street of Ulan Bator I did a circuit of the market Searching f......

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Categories: yardstick, flower,
Form: Rhyme

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