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Alternatively Poems - Poems about Alternatively

Alternatively Poems - Examples of all types of poems about alternatively to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for alternatively.
Premium Member Too Much Food
...Eating too much food is never any good Puts one in a nasty mood What to do? -- Eat some more food! That'll solve everything, you'll feel so much better tho to your refrigerator......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, food, humor, proposal,
Form: Couplet
Shoelaces and Change of Climate
...I first noticed a change in Climate, When my shoes started to outlast their laces, Which I thought unusual at the time, As I had come to think of it as an unwritten law, Probably one of Murphy's,......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, age, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Oh, Mothballs
...Oh, meaty mothballs! as opposed to mothy meatballs Alternatively - slobbering sloth-balls! instead of sloppy moth-calls Stupid refrigerator! as opposed to dumb incinerator A......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, new year, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacred Spacemaking
...Dear Neighbors, community co-investors, sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons and an indoor historical CommonSpace Both, and all, sacred to panentheistic me and probably more mundanely ......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Change Ability
...Woodrow Wilson, back then a progressive Now considered a wholesale regressive ~ Just think, Hilary / DJT * What will you soon be ~ Deplorable compulsive-obsessive *If Rep......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, change, future, history, irony,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Our Fifth Season
...During the bloom of youth, in the spring of vitality, Everything is sparkling and has a fresh, real quality.  Summer is the season of growth and rebirth in life,  Every day brings fres......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, appreciation, beauty, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Among An Unnamed Female Person Known Within Mine Black Barbed Ken
...Among an unnamed female person known within mine black barbed ken Analogous to black box holding untold secrets, (after deadly plane crash no survivors except a journeyman foreigner), I shar......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, absence, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet Tale
...I linger at my laptop day and night. Not making a fiction to shift a slight. My ink was poised on the tips of my knuckles. There isn't a veil of aims waffle puzzles. Sonnet formi......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, addiction, allusion, analogy, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Basho Do You Know
...The most discussed Basho haiku How would you translate it? Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto - Basho Literal Translation Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya, ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-m......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, anniversary, people, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Modern M-E History, 101
...It happened in May, 1948 Israel declared itself a new-old state In hours it came under fierce attack From Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq The four Arab states told their kin in Israel Le......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, history, irony, perspective, truth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Elfin Krishna
...I have no idea how to teach this cute little guy, who has no clue what sound does a D make, or a K, but I reverse the role, and let him be the teacher today! ......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, childhood, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love and Turmoil In the Heart
...Prevalence of my tenure and my decision. What's the explanation for your heartache? Oh, soul, how did you let follow the passion? People who love you have had heartbreak. While I feel doubt and n......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, appreciation, blessing, care, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mighty As Mountains
...Two sets of three words each Each sets forces in motion Mighty as mountains, vast as the ocean The first set, "I give up" All momentum it quells The future, disrupts The other, "I love ......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, analogy, care, love, words,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Monumental Disaster
...The beautiful days were here again, as sunshine lit blue skies, And I was happy with my work, which had seldom held surprise. My job entailed overseeing, the raising of national monuments, So th......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, creation, dream, fantasy, hero,
Form: Couplet
Electronic Assassinations
...It was a strange day when I realized I couldn't talk to strangers anymore the connection I had with them seemed to be disabled seems I'd been kick out through some unacceptable door free speech a......Read the rest...
Categories: alternatively, discrimination, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse

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