Grates Poems - Poems about Grates

...By barren sands, the weary streets do sprawl, Where voices rattle in the iron dusk, And hollow laughter rises, wan and thin. The city groans beneath a leaden sky, Where smoke and sorrow mingle,......Read the rest...

...A FAIR PAIR Willy the worm would want to wiggle Just a joke joining in with joyful jiggle Gaity I guess, giving guffaw or giggle Delighted to dig and dive down deep Why one would wish to walk ......Read the rest...

...With wings of golden starlight your spirits flare Each woman burst forth a steadfast astral pyre Your valiant souls are / defying / confining the tethered snare Like distant suns that are ......Read the rest...

...Gorillas grow growly gruffy grouchy grampas Giving grateful gremlins grassy growth plates Glassy glistening glowing glaring glimmers of globes Groovy grizzly gristleworms gracefully grifting grand......Read the rest...

... Hatred spews from his heart It’s in his eyes, in his breath, in his smirk Feels like he could tear me apart I’ve never met an angrier jerk! Resentment silences every hope She i......Read the rest...

...I stand alone, though I see another Frequenting dark corners shouting 'other' Cloaked in shadow, or a shadow become Out run, out run, out run, out run We dance the dance, the dance of death Ma......Read the rest...

...Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships Angst of redundancy seethes from within as l......Read the rest...

...I like the old buildings, the weathered brick, the worn down doorsteps sanded by a century of shuffling feet, the musty smells from old bond stores and hotel cellars wafting up through grates ......Read the rest...

...The jocular hilarity of the holiday festivities grates me raw. I can't help it the merrier everyone gets the more sad I feel. I know I am not right, never have been. I paint a stiff smile on m......Read the rest...

...Does Dedra look strange to you? I asked her cousin. No more than usual; he replied. She’s crazy as a dozen. A dozen hyenas? A dozen cats? A dozen fleas? Don’t ask me, he said. She’s always been a ......Read the rest...

...Subtle, tingling, blissful caress Wholeness of being, free from stress Essence of presence celebrates Each node within, Cupid’s address Magnetic heat, pheromones grates To music of spheres, s......Read the rest...

...And where to go now ?. The wall that has kept back silence is beginning to dissolve and already that vast ocean of nothingness is slowly seeping into what holds you together. You could always......Read the rest...

...I serenade my wife each night With songs both old and new To show how much I love her It just seems the thing to do But she is not enamoured To hear my dulcet tones She says it's just annoyin......Read the rest...

...Feet planted on city sidewalks, body folds with in, another homeless person in need of a friend. They're cropping up in alley ways, cluttering urban streets, belongings now in shopping carts, at n......Read the rest...

...Covid is a lie she tells me, hoping for an argument. My silence probably grates her. All news is false except for my news station, she goads me. I do not roll my finger around my ear or make the L......Read the rest...