New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
Index of First Lines
Soft and lazy 124
Speak! speak, you ghostly guest, 130
Swirling snow flakes 86
The city walls pulse with the knowledge of soldiers’ fears, 100
The client’s rhythmic breathing relayed ‘round 38
The diamond drops of tulip sweat 129
The here and now is all we hold in times of joy and sorrow. 20
The morning sunlight shines upon me, 25
The night it was dark, the moon did not shine. 84
The owl sat 19
The sunset shatters on the lake. 128
The Thinker – he who navigates 96
The trout had much to celebrate– 22
The West is more than just a place. 105
There is a hint of storm upon the breeze 36
There’s many a tale of the Great White North 101
They call each star a sun 28
They burst around the river bend upstream from where I stood 32
They say that it’s a rage to order. 65
They say The Odeon went bust – 78
This child that grows inside my wife 135
Though a poem may be satirical, 114
Throw more logs on the fire, 63
To grow the Garden of the Mind 96
Tonight the moon is high, the water’s calm 109
Trails among the Navaho 77
Two wedding bands 144
Unhappy fate, so veiled with gloom, 56
We are the souls who dance on fallow page; 104
We never questioned whether we should wed 141
Well, here I go and write again. 143
When close of day stands shortly knocking hard 22
When I was born my only play 90
When I was young, I knew a man. He’d spent his life at sea. 87
When John was just a little guy 113
When the sun turns to glass, bright prisms will bow; 16
Where do myths and legends go, 89
Wind rustled crunching leaves 21
Yes, lead me to the water, 108
You gave me orange blossoms when I was sixteen 30
You see in me that fading time of year 30
Your tattooed stigmata are showing, my dear – 100
Your urgent, crunching footfall down the cinder running track 134
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