Flat Poems - Poems about Flat

The bones, lay flat, without a sound, Then one by one, clickety-clack. Departed souls’ cold backs did crack. The bones lay flat without a sound, Until their jaws did flap, confound. Each found its skull a lantered-Jack. The bones lay flat...Read the rest...

I open my eyes. All around me, everything is unfamiliar: unfamiliar wallpaper, unfamiliar white leather sofa, unfamiliar country. I moved here to teach, and here I am learning that I’m underprepared, underqualified, underdressed, and hungover. He wouldn’t let me leave last night, you see. As the party was...Read the rest...

Do you sometimes use GPS To navigate your flat world? Did you ever wonder how all those satellites Get around to the underside? Do you use a flush toilet Or a siphon? See, fluids can sometimes run uphill. Your “the Amazon River...Read the rest...

Ohbard and Pell meet up over lifetimes and dimensions for exchanges and conversations: Flat? Flat. Why Sir I believe not a word of it, why have you not heard, it is a sphere. A sphere? You mean like a ball but...Read the rest...

Humanity still struggles to comprehend That all life on earth is for us to tend We must cease our pillaging of this great land Instead, care for all life as it was planned We are the shepherds of...Read the rest...

there is no right or wrong in doing anything no bad or good just semi-empty opinions and unpredictable consequences the world is flat and God stays on the edges...Read the rest...

Busted Flat … Poetic busking the white lines advancing A voice on the asphalt the rubber — the road (Dreamsleep: December, 2023) The Heaviest Silence Oh, to be cursed with the burden of truth Without the propensity —to speak it out loud (Dreamsleep: December, 2023) ...Read the rest...

[Not strictly limericks as syllable count is out, But hey… be a rebel… ignore the rules!] _______________________________________ I met the young lady from flat forty-five I told her, “Your beauty makes me feel alive.” She said, “My name’s Lexi.” Her...Read the rest...

I’m thirsty It’s hot I order a cold, refreshing soda. I can hardly wait My tastebuds excited as they wait for the glorious liquid to envelope the inside of my mouth Anticipating the rush of little bubbles exploding with fervor...Read the rest...

Death … when there’s no longer something to believe in (Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...Read the rest...

When Your Young Life Catches You Flat Footed BarBQ, potato chips Mountain Dew and Watermelon pie It was a huge celebration of friends on the Fourth of July There was Tammy with beautiful hair and those dark tanned...Read the rest...

It was the sound that first drew me to the low street-facing window. I cleared a small spot in the grime and was rewarded by ankles. Clickity-clack, clickity-clack. Joie de vivre discernible in the rhythm of her hurried pace, that's...Read the rest...

I've put some lime pickle with my lunch Just to reset my senses (and because I like it) I may have eaten a large quantity of chocolate too (but that was because it was there) Why am I...Read the rest...

Why do I find no tune on my CDs in G, so I can play along with my harmonica – which is in G? I find a tune in G-flat, and one in B-flat, and even two in C minor. Was...Read the rest...

A man's joke could not trigger laughter: A good one about helicopter Some poor guy often flew in dreams While in true life could not pay for creams; Audience of joke cracker creditors, Who needed prompt cash for auditors; Three with...Read the rest...