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Alighting Poems - Poems about Alighting

A’Sway
...My whirligigs are spinning; The trees are all a’sway. The dafs, with blooms beginning, Bow their heads in mock dismay. The windsock strips are dancing; The bushes are a’bounce, The dogs on le......

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Categories: alighting, spring, today,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member His Christmas Cold
... The night before Christmas my 6-year-old grandson was elated, for he knew Santa would bring him bagful of gorgeous gifts and he would come at night alighting through the chimney. So, if th......

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Categories: alighting, child, christmas, funny,
Form: Free verse



Filched formerly anatomical slender man me! Thus I take a pot belly stance!
...Filched formerly anatomical slender man - me! Thus I take a pot belly stance! Absolute zero escape velocity gutted dance sing days (contra and square), cuz metabolic full abundance abdominal a......

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Categories: alighting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Music Swells
...Edna Morris lived in the town of Shadow Fells, in rich green, hilly country, With doting parents and sister Violet, plucking fruit from their plum tree. Pretty Edna was twelve years old, ......

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Categories: alighting, children, christmas, dream, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Reactions
...Reactions Far too many years my Daughter has suffered heart ache from what I did not give. Many ghosts linger on, haunting her subconscious, making it difficult for her to live a normal existence,......

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Categories: alighting, daughter,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member At the End of the Day
...It's funny, the random things that remind you of what a lovely place the world can sometimes be. Like two little birds alighting on a wire, as you emerge from the underground just at dusk on a T......

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Categories: alighting, appreciation, beauty, bird, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sleeping Muse, Constantin Brancusi, 1910
...delicately I dream embodied elegance alighting at stops of impermanence solemn slumber encased casualty of my day ~ daring to drift like mist, majestic in metal......

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Categories: alighting, anxiety, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Beneath the veil of night that shadows the stars lost in the cosmos
...Beneath the veil of night that shadows the stars lost in the cosmos, You, voyageur of heart's depths, cast your shadow over me. Unwind the garment of veils, hide your thoughts beneath heavy lids, ......

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Categories: alighting, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
When will the summer come?
... When will the summer come, the fields be ripe again, The sun down-shining power, the clouds reducing rain. When will the poplars be releasing, millions of seeds, And outside be snowing fuzz-ba......

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Categories: alighting, 7th grade, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Know Which Way the Wind Blows
..."A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache," Quote by, Catherine the Great (A gush of wind slights and pauses alighting a piece of paper to rest between two me......

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Categories: alighting, analogy, angst, art, fate,
Form: Other
Premium Member On a November Afternoon
...Grant me a peaceful afternoon with hums alighting on nodding blooms, butterfly wings and a soothing lullaby whispered by washing hanging on a line. Let life be settled by a calm with pleasa......

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Categories: alighting, peace, violence, war,
Form: Free verse
Approaching the Night
...The fog delays alighting; Suddenly I appear in that street. the moon tries to peep out of the well The wind chases a song all over the street. As if some stranger I am watched uneasily. ......

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Categories: alighting, dream,
Form: Free verse
The Faith
...Moments in digression passed, Timeless time spent, misspent, The path of life on crossroads muddled, Reason withheld, judgement befogged. Encountering the hurdles abound, Paving way with all his......

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Categories: alighting, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dreams Follow
... "The Dreams Follow" We are on loop replay sleeping to wake again, morning, sunlit, shines through the blinds, sparkling dust columns dancing in front of our eyes, wher......

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Categories: alighting, journey, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Oak
... "Oak" The guardians stood around and shook their heads great thoughts quivering from the ground, roots up, as if to walk confidently with great armies y......

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Categories: alighting, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

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