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Oaken Poems - Poems about Oaken

Oaken Poems - Examples of all types of poems about oaken 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 oaken.
Bed rotting’s not quite the right term this time
...Found myself doing my damndest to sleep through the day again. Wake up, pull the wool over my eyes, block out the world, repeat. Certainly not a positive omen (what with Halloween and November 9th)......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, dark, depression, hope, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a crow’s command
... I be a common salty once no captain's bars, did bear yet blessed was I to venture where few a skipper dared from crow's nest high aloft I saw those br......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Curved Leaf
...Cursed by the autumn With a lost decorum Lies the shrunk oaken leaf As though full of grief Curled and furled Within winds of time whirled As though swirled and twirled Isn’t this a ruthless......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, creation, life,
Form: Free verse


Fading Photographs
...Fading photographs are strewn across alabaster tabletops, drenched in moonlight streaming through rustling curtains. Snow owls call out to each other through the whistling wind, as flakes of......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, bereavement, december, introspection, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Real Boy
...I walked beneath the ribcage of a giant whale; Encapsulated in the briney entrails of an empty long-dead being. Its grimace echoed in these halls of boned wall, Of which calcite chambers temper;......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, age, courage, innocence, ocean,
Form: Free verse



To What Shall I Liken Thee?
...Shall I liken thee to a sunrise? Thou art the sunrise of a fall morning's glow. Thou art the oaken breeze that bids you "hello." Shall this describe to what I liken thee? No. Shall I liken thee......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, baby, beautiful, beauty, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 3 of 6'
...III. Ecological Awareness In this fragile eggshell I will call life for security's a mirage I chase. Existence is a gamble I take a wild and desperate gamble......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, earth, environment, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Spellcaster
...A cabin sees a creature cool from night of crawl and hunt in all of gravely stone and street in tone of light diffused by wane of moon a toothless gum with tutting tongue clicks her way like bats ......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, magic, moon, night, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The External World of The Internal
... “The External World of the Internal” when the Internal finally woke up, it was like all the words in that book, flew at It like flaming arrows, an external bar......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, humanity, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative
I Will Shake Your Hand
...The ring depicts a promise of fidelity. I smile as you stand in your cloak. That headgear is the symbol of the tongues of fire. I smile as you receive that formal mitre, while that pastoral staff......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, christian, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
NOT PLONK
...NOT PLONK A well-corked bottle lets nothing escape Subtle added tastes from an oaken cask I’ll sip and enjoy this fine cultured grape Is a well-rounded body too much to ask A label removed w......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, appreciation, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Strong Force
...I was an illustrious, nuclear physicist, and I was studying the strong force, Holding together building blocks of all atoms, as stars hold to their course. That force joins roaming quarks, which ......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, beauty, fantasy, flower, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member collective nouns: ten front teeth are seven thebes every day of the week
... homelands / husbands / playing house / strands & strings of horses behind strangers lounging un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women, depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective ......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Nirvana
... Let us not be fools and pretend this planet won’t implode, Beneath a mosaic ceiling, writing in a grand poetry dome! Where ethics and morality are shoved in an oaken drawer? And with ......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, inspiration, integrity, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Cloud Land
... 11/28/2023 Let’s be fools and pretend this planet won’t implode. Beneath a mosaic ceiling, hiding in a grand,poetry dome. Where ethics and morality are ......Read the rest...
Categories: oaken, america,
Form: Rhyme

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