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Famous Uncurl Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...d people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, 
Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, 
Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, 
And work will be simple and swift 
as a seagull flying, 
And play will be casual and quiet
as a seagull settling, 
And the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder
or care or notice, 
And people will smile without reason,
Even in winter, even in the rain....Read more of this...
by Tessimond, A S J



...I can trace her heavy jawbone and the sockets
of her eyes under my skin. And in the dark
I sometimes feel her trying to uncurl    
from where she sank into mudbound sleep
on that soft and temporary shore

so staggeringly long ago, time
had not yet cut its straight line
through the tangle of the planet,
nor taken up the measured sweep
that stacks the days and seasons
into an ordered past.

But I can feel her stirring
in the core of me, trying to rise up
from the deep hollow wh...Read more of this...
by Taylor, Marilyn L
...w summer, when the sun 
 Called to each frond and whorl 
That all he could for flowers was being done, 
 Why did it not uncurl? 

It must have felt that fervid call 
 Although it took no heed, 
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall, 
 And saps all retrocede. 

Too late its beauty, lonely thing, 
 The season's shine is spent, 
Nothing remains for it but shivering 
 In tempests turbulent. 

Had it a reason for delay, 
 Dreaming in witlessness 
That for a bloom so delica...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry