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Squashing Poems - Poems about Squashing

Premium Member VOGON SOUPSTERS: Gangsters of Poetry!
...Here, at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Poetrysoup is on the menu! And to save our sacred website, perhaps the world ... We must entertain and enter vague conspicuous contests ......

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Categories: squashing, rude, sometimes, wisdom,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
...A Place Not Meant To Be PART: I (810 of 1487 words) #1: A Day Begins Sand grains station elevated for want in the cool starless relics spell of dark a sun behold horizo......

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Categories: squashing, analogy,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Life is a battle
...Held tight to the asagai as I penetrated beastly jungles of Africa, for I knew my vow worthed every torturing and conscious idleling enccounterings... Eternal and fatal squashing of flesh and bone......

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Categories: squashing, allegory, allusion, courage, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode to a speck
...A singular speck So rarely noticed More often removed rather than studied But here you are, you made it In view! All we crave and despise 'to be looked at' I see you now, your fleeting time ......

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Categories: squashing, art,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: 07
...#7: The Pressure of Time They're pretty special and memorable. Still, a need to know, it comes, it goes It comes, it goes, they are unstoppable. It goes and it comes, and nobody kn......

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Categories: squashing, allusion, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war After extorting pound of flesh lifetime humiliation drummed into captives hammering indelible nightmare no amount of therapy can expunge. Lifetime traum......

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Categories: squashing, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mood
...I'm deleting a lot of words Squashing down a lot of emotions I've put eyeliner on And my glare is ice cold I'm not even looking out I'm just contained.......

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Categories: squashing, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbow Bird Collects Her Twins
...Rainbow bird collected her twins the second she knew The tropical forest was now being shared by a notorious two A black panther and a large leopard who loved a tasty treat They especially enjoyed......

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Categories: squashing, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Summer Sight
...A Summer Sight burning white glare forces squinted sight ~ sons squat by pool squashing bugs —————————————————————————————————————— Sally young eslinge (C) June 25, 2022......

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Categories: squashing, boy, fun, mother son,
Form: Haiku
A Death In the Red Street
...It was never her choice, to be into the red gallows. Body sold in the witching hour, forsaking her hemorrhaged soul, she moves on. Twitching in pain, trembling limbs, scars of yesterday’s lus......

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Categories: squashing, anger, angst, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Splat
...Smashed up against the wall it Shat ter ed in to tin y pi ec es. My m i n d is splintered broken, never to be put back together again S as in P as in pratt L as in lo......

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Categories: squashing, memory,
Form: Free verse
A Skeleton of Pottery
...Splintered gold carpets the ground at her naked feet. Stars spat from skies above crashing down to carve out craters in the earth, barren. She crunches memories once perfect between her toes - ......

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Categories: squashing, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Silence and Noise
...Silence Mute, Speechless Squelching, Repressing, Squashing Tranquility, Serenity, Oblivion, Calmness Speaking, Talking, Sounding Loud, Thun......

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Categories: squashing, silence, sound,
Form: Diamante
Premium Member Opening
...April had not always been open for change as her name would suggest on the surface too dark were her youth and gloomy mind shaped by seasons of torment and abuse as she festered under cov......

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Categories: squashing, change, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cool Master Lil' Miss
...Cool Master Lil' Miss Shiloh's art-filled hoodie argyle, warmly snugs young miss, save Charlie, he rallies firm, quick briefs the term, timely step shifts the sundial, gray culls while golden ......

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Categories: squashing, childhood, growing up, together,
Form: Rhyme

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