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Zigzagged Poems - Poems about Zigzagged

Premium Member The Westbury Sweetshop Woods
...The time was between the years of 1972 or 1976 when I was thirteen to about sixteen years old. The place was "The woods behind the Westbury Sweetshop" In the town of Iselin, New Jersey, where I grew ......

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Categories: zigzagged, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Oak Tree
...A gnarled lone oak tree grew in the middle of voluminous nowhere, amidst vast stretches of citron corm fields, a by-product of an old man’s weird whim. It proved quite a memorable playground, Fo......

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Categories: zigzagged, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Orderly Who Is Disorderly
...Arthur swore he'd be less brotherly, When his brother got disorderly. He would want their mum less motherly To get him back to being orderly A shock from one paid as orderly His movements are......

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Categories: zigzagged, analogy, career, change, image,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lighthearted
...I'm ashamed to say I was a grumpy pessimist, as some events soured me, Just as some cherries stay sour, although lingering long on the cherry tree. Although grumpy, I was rather happy, and I'd wo......

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Categories: zigzagged, cheer up, fantasy, friend,
Form: Couplet
Tailors Imagination
...Tailors’ quaint imagination For customers adoration: Only-God-knows inspiration He knows time of expiration: The crisscrossed and zigzagged entire, As they are what eyes require, Bejeweled ......

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Categories: zigzagged, clothes, crush, imagination, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mother Zamia Tree
...A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue. ......

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Categories: zigzagged, analogy, appreciation, mother, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Text Minus X
...Anxiously anticipating annual activity Blissfully bound by bravado Consuming cold contagious concoction Dizzily developed devilish desire Eagerly expecting ego's enlightenment Feverish......

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Categories: zigzagged, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alice Assaulted An Antelope
...Amazingly, Alice assaulted an antelope Because Bobby’s beavers became bold, Considering cantilevered canines Deliberately devastating donor’s doled. Evelyn entirely excited electric eels Faili......

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Categories: zigzagged, fantasy, fun, word play,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Skiing Adventure
...He chose a small safe snowy slope. Well dressed with goggles and helmet, Sunglasses and ski boots And a pair of good skis. It was lovely as he descended the slope. The small breeze bothere......

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Categories: zigzagged, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meandering
...Over the course of 25 plus years, I have moved some 20 times in 4 states. The course was neither aimless nor casual. It wasn't heavily winding, but the route was crooked. I have lived in a hote......

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Categories: zigzagged, family, home, moving on,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Summer Break Is Killing Me
...I am lethargic at best, wiped, totally beyond thinking My sleep patterns are not evenly zigzagged Up and down, my eyes are open every two hours Not a nightmare or stress; I do not know what it is ......

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Categories: zigzagged, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Child's Vigil
...The stillness of her sleeping form outlined against my bedroom wall. The feather tic tossed in restless sleep Blocked my access underneath for the doll, I sought to comfort me. As I crept across......

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Categories: zigzagged, angst, blessing, care, childhood,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member King of the Jungle
...furry fingertips danced around the head shaggy and zigzagged, Somehow making him seem more fierce made sense as he was the king fingertips of green rose up to meet him, hiding him so he could......

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Categories: zigzagged, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Personification
The Circus - a Tautogram
...Amazing acrobats astound awe-stricken audiences. Amy always asks about acts already arranged. Bouncing bears balance beach balls. Bobby Bear bicycled behind Betsy Bear. Crazy clowns crash car......

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Categories: zigzagged, animal, poems,
Form: Tautogram
The Dragon of Dark Harbor
...There is a harbor, dark and still, That formed ten thousand years ago. It lies upon the western sill Of Grand Manan, in indigo. Seagulls soar above the cliffs. Puffins nest on jagged rock......

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Categories: zigzagged, fantasy, nature, ocean, ,
Form: Rhyme

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