Categories: Poems, For Kids, From My Childhood, Life's Lessons, Love, Metaphor & Simile Poems, Color Metaphor Poems, Natural World, Observations, Silliness, Spooky Halloween Poems, Monster Poems
Rushing Time
June 11th, 2007Time rushes past my fingertips
Like grains of sand
I can't clutch nor gather
Any hold I have is an illusion
It falls away and drifts downstream
And I wonder how
It made its way to the ocean
When did it wash away
And will it return to me
On the n… more »
Color Metaphor Poem: Grey
June 8th, 2007Grey is a rain cloud about to burst
It's a silver lining that's been tarnished
By endless stormy weather
Grey is a hard stone
It's a treeless mountaintop
It's emptiness and solitude
Grey is the head of a sledgehammer
Shattering a boulder
Into… more »
I Wish It Weren't So Grey Outside
June 5th, 2007I wish it weren't so gray outside
I wish it weren't raining
I wish I weren't so sleepy
I wish I could concentrate
I wish I could keep my eyes open
I wish I hadn't dozed off
I wish I hadn't drooled on my desk
I wish I didn't have keyboard impress… more »
Wasted Time
June 4th, 2007Wasted time I used to own
I didn't value, left it alone
And no more is there to receive
For us to share, yes, you and me
I thought my existence was eternal
Life's seasons always would be vernal
Winters cold and empty'd never come
But I was wrong… more »
Echoes in My Head
June 3rd, 2007Lately I've been thinking and gradually been sinking
Down into the depths of my despair
I wonder if I'd been different, shown a thanks that proved sufficient
You, perhaps, would still be here
I begin to madly blame myself, and then I sadly pain mys… more »