Poems About: SIMILE

To fix a headlock on a
metaphor, or
clamp a full nelson on a read more »

Listen now; there are rules to walking with me.
No, I am not about to write some silly simile.
This is the hard solid truth,
Break the rules there is no ruth. read more »

I love ancient minds, the grandiose
thoughts of bygone tale-tellers, their
sense of awe, infusing all they saw
with supernatural significance and read more »

Mickey has big ears and hears secrets
he's not supposed to. I think of pinning
and taping my droopy
fleshy excesses (the visible only) read more »

Poetry
Poetry is supposed to be
away to be relieved
from modern day realities read more »

Passion’s aroused passion’s displayed
Bodies with love entwined
How is it then, with promises made?
Someone has change their mind read more »

I stood there like a dropp of water
as you savagely tore my very last shred
of ill-fated dignity,
as you so cunningly blared through read more »

Much like a poem are you to me, my love.
Your breath's rhythm I feel and am in awe of,
For it's like a breeze that takes me sky high
Releases me, then catches me that I'll not cry... read more »

This Ostrich taken, vainly tries
From chord of Courser to be free;
She struggles hard, but man defies
Her bold attempt at liberty. read more »

The Poets all march to the edge-
some perching
at the abyss of Screaming Desire;
Hearts exploding read more »

You tell me this isn't a poem: you say that this is prose.
So, 'What makes a poem? ' I ask.
Is it the twisting labyrinth that I weave from words
into elaborate metaphors, or use of enjambement read more »

We poets are farmers still,
ploughing our mind in the invisible field,
whenever the mind makes the pen wield.
Sowing the seeds of emotion, read more »