Poems About: ODE

From break of day to evening
I hear the joyful caroling
of doves, the twittering of sparrows
as they do sing a happy ode to spring. read more »

A quiet line
crosses slowly
the theatre
of the mind. read more »

My soul has sung odes
Feet troden routes all snowed.
Some rhymes once encountered
Words misheard, and meaning altered. read more »

That dies away in candles unlit
It defines the circumference of its own burning
Gracefully etched in fragile petals kissed
By lips now mute in fields of gold now blooming read more »

Woven words, cascading
down slopes of rhyme,
through jungles of cadence
and blanketing the atmosphere read more »

Too long, my only, we have kept apart
Divided by your stiff decree-
The pillow that we shared is cold, my heart
And iffish like it never used to be; read more »

And I'll walk down a familiar path
With a worn out sole and a heavy heart
I'll dream of amends futilely in the midst
And in your faith tightly cleaves. read more »

The mortality of a horizon
~
What clouds roll on the horizon
Endless beyond the eye read more »

Beating of a melancholic drum on my tin roof
An ode to pain an sorrow of creation. read more »

Shatter and matter, frown if you like,
Frighten the neighbourly people to overstate;
Physically the meanings of odes are sincere,
On this end of the dance we surprise the ends. read more »

Awoken from a winters heart
~
The perpetual hours of night
Which haunted the lonesome soul read more »

no, she didn't elevate off the ground,
she didn't recite odes supreme,
nor did she demonstrate her wisdom
with axioms of fond brooks read more »