Poetry – Page 2 – Todd's Place

Tears

A poem about tears, using sestet stanzas with ABBCCA rhyme scheme. Beyond the technical details, an honest look at the inevitability — and healing properties — of tears.

Vanilla

A short poem about the sense of taste, written for the Intro to Poetry course.

Drifting

An impressionistic poem, written with quintet stanzas.

Desert Journey

A structured poem, in quatrain form, employing alliterations.

under a purple sky dotted with silver stars i strolled along a beach of crystals, small and bright so peaceful, with each step like tears, my sorrows fell there was no past, future only glorious now! and then i came to know that i was, in spirit far greater than this shell beautiful, eternal

Autumn

This is the third poem in my “Seasons of the Year” series

The Inner Child

Inside of me, the inner child I’ve known so well, these many years Is urging me, “be free and wild” “Cast off your silly grown-up fears” Yet here I sit, so meek and mild I work and fret and pay the bills A longing sigh, to live beguiled To sing of dreams, to roll downContinue reading “The Inner Child”

Summer

This is the second poem in my “Seasons of the Year” series

The Road

i travel the road within and without to distant lands and inner truths freely unencumbered i hear the call beckoning me forward inward like a distant whisper of things to come knowing my thirst for discovery no matter how far no matter how long i travel the road leads me back to myself to myContinue reading “The Road”

Don’t Let Yesterday Get In The Way

And now we face the sunrise to the east In gladness, we shall laud a brand new day The inner demons and the wayward beast Are banished to the dark and kept at bay Come let us greet the dawn with break of feast And meet the morning troubles, come what may We’ll find thatContinue reading “Don’t Let Yesterday Get In The Way”