Wanted Poems - Poems about Wanted

A panacea for cancer is what I’m all about What about Alzheimer’s, the jealous one asked in a shout Let’s not forget chicken pox, heart attacks and leprosy The scientist ran from his lab, to watch monotone TV He wanted to eliminate all the diseases, of course But opposition was as stubborn as Farmer Joe's plow horse The naysayers were yelling...

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He wanted to domesticate his lovely wife This misogynist plan caused him lots of strife She went after him with a sharpened carving knife Ruined my life! He laments. She ruined my life!...

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Let’s crack down On the cracked brained crackpot Lunatic ideas that are certifiably crackers Screwball cuckoo nuts and such ways Sure, his is crafty and cunning A nonsensical narcissist Mad in a somber maniacal manner But wait say the dupable, we want this despot We voted for him -anything is better than a woman Besides, we enjoy his despicable bullying ways...

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I wanted to disappear like smoke into the unknown air, where lines aren't drawn and nothing is known, Into a realm where rules don't bind us and failures leave no shadows in the tried soul, But this world is a vast ocean of beauty drowned in a community with a feigned smile, Where our minds are drained by...

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I know you feel like you are invisible Like your worth is lost in the world. But I need you to know this You may not see it yet, ?But there are people who care,? Who would catch you if you fall,? Who would hold you when you need to be seen. You matter. Not for what you do, ?But for who you are.? Your...

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I always wanted to be a medieval jester, the one who sneaks up behind the queen and makes her guess who caressed her. I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule, King Lear's sad fool, and the one who started the joke ~ that continues to fester. ...

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I just wanted a woman Wanted a love, needed a love Wanted love, love of a crime Wanted and needed love By a wanted wicca guy I want to find You—your criminal. Just touch you. Understand you. A dark mind. Loving you. A blood. Take it for yours, for common blood. Here is no purity. Just disgusting life Loving you my old age, grandparents Woman, where...

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She Wanted More! He shut the car door with a hush; she closed her side of the car with a statement. He slipped into his seat belt in a measured sense; she slapped-snapped her seat belt on.. in relief. He stroked the gear lever, a reflection of lifestyle; she touched the automatic lever, as if a passenger. The passenger in a car;...

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“Today, we again failed to reproduce,” said the gander to the goose. “If we wanna keep up with the drake and the duck, we gotta do more than ~ just depend on luck. We gotta actually let something hang loose.”...

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You don’t want me. I’m broken and bruised I’m a web of ugly scars from my healing I’m a fraud I’m a jittery, anxious idiot who can’t stop thinking I’m the friend that always dampens the mood I’m a product of my racing heart and mind colliding I’m someone who feels such heaviness but can’t cry I spend every second trying to please...

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In life and in love, you wanted Someone whose love was true. And through the ups and downs, They would always be there for you. You said that your someone Would hold on regardless. Their love would come naturally And in your relationship be selfless. It's been known your lover needs A heart that's as big as yours, Overfilled with so much affection That out of...

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Sourdough crumbles under my hands, flour thick on the counter, white haze same as my father used to breathe in. The skin splits where I score it, steam unfurling from the center like something trying to leave. I eat the heel first, next its soft middle, then the quiet between bites, imagining what’s left of...

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I never consciously ever ever wanted to die But one time during a car wreck I knew I was going to die I was traveling eighty-six miles an hour on gravel. Came to a t-road and knew there was no way to make the curve. I yelled “thank you God for a great life!” right before my car slammed...

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If someone spoke a different language to you, Would you kill them? If somebody worshipped a different god than you, Would you kill them? You, personally, would you kill them? How much hatred could you be filled with All because someone lives a different life to you? Why are we, as people, so averse to the unknown; So desperate to destroy what we...

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The belief in re-establishing greatness. Using yesterday as the template for tomorrow. Consolidating our past and funding our current situation to afford, build, create, pause and reconsider, to move, and stay and look, keep out sight on and make our Nation that beacon of hope for all involved. Where those who can will work and train and retrain to build the future for that tomorrow and the Happy Ever...

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