Odd Matters of the Heart
By: R. Renée Bembry
Here you will find a growing list of poems centered around issues involving the heart. The poems may be humorous, serious, silly, sad, provocative, or thought stimulating. Fans of poems that rhyme will be pleased to discover that most of the heart-related poems posted here will invoke the rhyming style. All the same, however, free verse as well as other types will be added as well.
I gave my heart to an ant
Who toted it to his colony
Distributed it to the young
Spreading my love around
I gave my heart to a cow
Who fed it to her calf
Suckling it’s mommy’s cud
Soothing it’s hunger pangs
I gave my heart to a dino
A Tyrannosaurus Rex
Whose sharp teeth seared organ flesh
Dismantling all I gave
I gave my heart to a lover
Who bludgeoned it with poor words
Dismantled it with unkindness
Whisked it to the wind
Then along came a sweetheart
A joyous marvelous love
Sat me by a lovers’ hearth
Warmed all my blues away
