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Shouldering Poems - Poems about Shouldering

Poem 28: Courtesy of 1-4-2025
...I’m afraid of the wrong tune, I’m afraid I’m too long for this. I’m afraid I’m wrong for you, My eyes must seem defeated. My arms weigh heavy on my shoulders, Shouldering pain from my wro......

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Categories: shouldering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Shouldering Friend
...You are a Simon Of Cyrene; a supporting Shoulder of crosses I bear in this testing life; You, a laborer of love:- ......

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Categories: shouldering, appreciation, character, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka



Missing the Cranes
...You were sharp|ning grass With your eyes | sit & fixed Again | a substitute for mow|n Machine chug|ging along lug Nuts, molar friction | u - r - n . Lawn stretches of up|beat Beach | was there ......

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Categories: shouldering, anxiety, conflict, grief, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Zealous untiring repentance
...Zealous untiring repentance Fleshed out as poetic confessional. Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche precipitating pandemonium. I wrought havoc courtesy aegis of paramours picadillos, your......

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Categories: shouldering, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SPIRITED GIBBERISH
..."SPIRITED GIBBERISH" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to wha......

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Categories: shouldering, allusion, dream, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member Spirited Gibberish
..."Spirited Gibberish" Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to w......

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Categories: shouldering, corruption, god, identity, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Go Tell It
...In a space reserved for not thinking a TV blames itself for telling lies to you. It's another fake cathartic moment. A wall clock coughs into its hands, Mouthing a bullet proof prayer - I wa......

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Categories: shouldering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
If Trump wins rest in peace Mother of Freedom
...If Trump wins...rest in peace - Mother of Freedom Post mortem courtesy Doctor Demento yielded Lady Liberty lies slain... videre licet knocked senseless from brutal blows upon her crown sim......

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Categories: shouldering, abortion, america, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member jungle raves
...Vibe-check, it’s Friday. Yay! A delightfully cool Friday at that! I’d like to thank the democratic party (which I’ve heard controls the weather now). Has the heat finally surrendered to the inevitabl......

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Categories: shouldering, cheer up, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Violin Weeps- POTD
...From far I hear the strains of a mournful melody It flows from a violin whose strings are about to break As the violin sings, the night carries the music along. The notes tremble, the ......

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Categories: shouldering, loss, music, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BEYOND CRUSH
...This a poem for our Dads with "collaborative verses" from my students who wrote poems for their DADS since Father's Day in our country is on June 16, 2024. Daddy dearest, you're my first ever lov......

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Categories: shouldering, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Autopilot
... His own voice talks over his head, as if he were not there. The load car radio plays distant music. Without thinking, he changes channels, hears only the drumming road. His eyes are lo......

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Categories: shouldering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Silent Strides
...People driving swiftly While I was walking on a rainy path alone, Many passers passed by. Then in blues a man Drove an abandoned road uphill While the usual being over used. My legs str......

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Categories: shouldering, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Ballade of The Cliff
... Tho' bore your fate 'tis artless place you lone Your girth--your hold freedoms--your claims be more Restrained your gambled trade choice place bemoan Shewn thee frankly tho' toughened be your co......

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Categories: shouldering, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? The following extrapolated thought thread exercised, NOT utilized to intimate how Fats Domino belied, and wowed a crowded house ass-sized. ......

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Categories: shouldering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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