Scottish Poetry Library: Eyes Are For Looking by Fatema Saidam, age 9
Eyes are for looking Eyes are for looking And seeing sun Tongues are for greeting And saying fun Legs are for walking slowly And also run Hands are for shaking…
Eyes are for looking Eyes are for looking And seeing sun Tongues are for greeting And saying fun Legs are for walking slowly And also run Hands are for shaking…
Hello, lovely people. Happy Friday to all. Here's the teaser for my new poem: They’ve been whispering at the officeassuminghypothecatingpiercing him with suspicious staresThat Lipstick markis an eyesoreon the shirt…
Kousa Dogwood your rough bark animates myyard at all timesthe symbol of you fires meas days drag on your cover of branches shadesmy patio your crowned hair awakens meto the new springred…
Depleted by The Hustle Culture Pedestals are all the crazein vogue for Barbies in transienceif mermaids can make it this farthey'll make of her a superstar--a pageant of praise and…
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What a party this has turned out to be. I assure you all, the tears are joy-filled. Andtoday, being a day I will not soon forget, I wish to invite…
Hopeful one mornwould bring them much closerShe, barely eightand he forty-threeDawn after dawnthey braved nightly slumberTasting ‘n writing,chewing words, hungry.The dim of the lamppaled with new morning lightSent them upstairsto…
Hello friends. A couple of days ago I told you how I’d drop everything andteleport to the colder months if I could… Oh, I'm still of the same heart. I've…
First, a little Emily Dear March—Come in—(1320) Dear March—Come in— How glad I am— I hoped for you before— Put down your Hat— You must have walked—How out of Breath you are— Dear March, how…
Posted on July 10, 2024: The Skeptic's Kaddish where this week's PoW isthe talented Celestial Kreationz. Congratulations. I. The prompt poem:‘Cento Love’, a cento poem by Celestial Kreationz II. Celestial’s prompt…
Talk to me about silence, orwrite something that should be spoken out loudwrite something slow, hurry upwrite it loud* if it should be whispered no morewe’ll need to suspend discomfort,while…
Written for tanka Tuesday at Colleen Chesebro for July 9, 2024 prompt which celebratesthe season of Beginning of Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere, inviting poets toexpress the effects of this…