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Peking Poems - Poems about Peking

Seed
...Days have gone by since the moon passes through the sky I thought it was going to rain but it was just a little drizzle beating against my window pane and the stars move swiftly beneath the cushion ......

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Categories: peking, age, america, appreciation, business,
Form: Narrative
a mistake
...The Mistake He had been invited for dinner in Peking by a group of business leaders who had invested much money for his venture and success, but they thought his fee was too much. I wanted to disc......

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Categories: peking, april, best friend, bridal
Form: ABC



Cafe
...There was a young thing from Peking Who opened a cafe on a whim She cooked up a stew Hadn't a clue Didn't know where to begin......

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Categories: peking, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Duck-Billed Platypus
...A duck-billed platypus Is bathing on the bus She left her favorite stream To join our swimming team She did so well last year Her lane was free and clear Until the final leg When Platy laid ......

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Categories: peking, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Episode
...I kept looking around to see if I knew anyone in this town but everywhere I turn I see the goal post digging and the people are singing Their faces have grown old but their spirits are still bold. An......

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Categories: peking, care, celebration, community, courage,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Three Enigmas of Turandot
...The three enigmas of Turandot The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old. Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary, a ballad of love and loss that must be told. The Emper......

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Categories: peking, crush, longing, love, moon,
Form: Narrative
The Onlooker
...Why do you look upon me with reproach, two-eyed fried eggs? I swear, only hunger and hopelessness have led me to encroach into the kitchen. The quite pushy monger, who sold me a used cornucop......

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Categories: peking, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kidnapped - For Slap the Muse Contest
...Kidnapped. - for Peeking Through The Keyhole Contest The hole where the key’s meant to go Was vacant so I had to know What was outside to be seen But my captors weren’t all that keen It seem......

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Categories: peking, funny, humorous, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
There's a Shark In My Soup
...'THERE'S A SHARK IN MY SOUP!' Not an eyebrow was raised, Not a shudder nor blood-curdling scream. For in Peking you see, it's a delicacy To consume shark fin soup it would seem. But when dine......

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Categories: peking, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Lodger In My Heart
...Lodger in my heart I found rather strange people in my heart, among those closest to me, hiding and peking true white cels of my blood, stiling all those red one! Then I thought to myself, ......

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Categories: peking, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seahorses
...We humans like all creatures to have a purpose, an aim, From one-celled amoebas to fungi-spore glebas, They need a good reason to compete in life's game. Consider cats: They school us in hygiene ......

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Categories: peking, fish, meaningful, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Politically Invested Colors
...Let's talk honestly together about our divinely-inspired inter-related concepts, like color, of God's unlimited multiculturing powers for healthy resilience and growth of Positive ultra-violet E......

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Categories: peking, color, corruption, creation, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Ping Pong With Eighty Three Dusters On a Cloud
...Sitting and waiting in a field full of olives is not a bad way to spend an hour but an hour can be long and long is a length and a length with a leaving leading light is not a dividend, a milestone, ......

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Categories: peking, baseball,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - Xxvi
...Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-conti......

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Categories: peking, power,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wolf's Prey
...Snow... Its falling I found a white wolf it was well fed I went up to it all of the sudden I hear a gun shot The crows are flying covering the bright blue sky The wolf runs fast like a rabbit A......

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Categories: peking, animal, dark, light,
Form: Prose

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