Poetry Essay

The Limit of the Universe
(Free-Verse Poem)
We are closest when we are apart.
Each takes tiny steps back when
We are finally together again,
Forced away by the
Thoughts of closeness risen from solitude.
Lonely alone
Lonely together
This is not what I had in mind.
Where fear is the driving force
Fear must be of each other too,
A wedge forever standing
Until we need not be afraid
Which in this stifling, frowning
Disallowing world
Must never happen
Halloween
(Acrostic Poem)
Halloween is spooky and scary
All are waiting for the dark
Lights are off now time to scare!
Lots of monsters everywhere,
on the door step lies the pumpkin
Waiting for children with it's fiery mouth
Eek! Some scream
Ever lasting laughter on the pumpkins face
Nonsense they say . But ... Is it?
War
(Cinquain Poetry)
War
Sad, destructive,
Killing, injuring, destroying
A thing that kills life.
Destructive
It's the Least I Can Do
(Limerick Poem)
Money's the root of all evil.
It causes such pain and upheaval.
But maybe you've heard,
Your pain can be cured.
Just mail me your root of all evil.
Dreams
(Diamante Poetry)
Sleeping, Wishing, Thinking
Fantasy, Actuality, Vision, Genuine
Being, Seeing, Knowing, Authentic, Factual
Reality
*Escape From the* Sad Heart
(Sonnet poem)
Sad heart please disguise
for I cannot hide
how I feel inside
Tears behind my eyes
My sad hearts capsized
Shipwrecked by the tide.
My thoughts start to slide
into a sunrise
its there I escape
Like a bird in flight
There I feel the shape
of ships in the night
on a lost landscape
far away from sight
The Shadow Man
(Narrative Poem)
The Shadow seemed so nice at first
He was polite; he never cursed.
But then I found his real desire
His real concern was much more dire.
The Shadow's laugh rang in my ear,
"Come, dear child, listen here.
I have a chore, if you want:
Find me a...