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Arresting Poems - Poems about Arresting

Love Drifts

...Brackish nerves languish and latch 
like seashells clinging to the shore—
something in the water pulls them in…
some fervor from something 
Familiar and Ancient.

I’ve seen your eyes before… 
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Categories: arresting, bereavement, character, courage, giving,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberONE OF A KIND

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In the corridors of a muddled mind,
Within the condensation of a thick fog, 
I often find,
A relapsed presence, a menopause
In life, an uncertainty
Of kind,
Where good and evil dined.

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Categories: arresting, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberSPILLEGE SPOIL SYBER SIST-- Vogon Unofficial Anthem Poetry

...SPILLEGE SPOIL SYBER SIST-- Vogon Unofficial Anthem Poetry


Infused intensity of immense ignorant
Boils of blast feme burbling
Crackle and gilling clump coils
Of filament retardant...
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Categories: arresting, analogy, anxiety, environment, how
Form: Vogon Poetry

Premium MemberSnail Mail

...So romantic love letters mailed
Now enchanted by the perfume smell
Amethyst art on cherry blossom card
Indigo ink drawing poetic little hearts 
Lavender love language shines like star

Melodic ...
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Categories: arresting, appreciation, love,
Form: Acrostic

Gaslamp

...Gaslamp, Gaslamp show me the way 
inside the cave, leave me there 
where I'm safe.
Ain't no debate, Gaslamp, Gaslamp.
In the way, seeing no place that 
I fit in.

Blistered with Sin. 
yeah......
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Categories: arresting, absence, abuse, addiction, care,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIt's Open Season

...Mysterious displacement of matters where
Spring forgets like fumbling fingers in blossoms
arresting visions lingering colossal
                         ~jewels rule pastimes

Then Summer...
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Categories: arresting, autumn, lost, spring, summer,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Premium MemberSan Francisco Serenade

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S~ Scent of the shining, Pacific Ocean, eternally bless me!
A~ Arresting fog, may your droplets forever surround me.
N~ Nights of rainbowed streetlights, dance, engulfed by the sea!

F~...
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Categories: arresting, beauty, culture, feelings, friendship,
Form: Acrostic

Just Men

...And though I’ve surmised my eyes with
Men in different lighting
I see a fair facade of girls and you trying to glide him
It’s just my absurd JEALOUS DRUNK TONGUE mocking
Maybe, or maybe falling i...
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Categories: arresting, angst, dream, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberSummer Flowers

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By the time it's officially Summer,
Without a doubt, they will be arresting me.
Presently, they are budding under the crape myrtle, which also will be stunning by summer.
Most assuredly, all o...
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Categories: arresting, flower, flying, summer,
Form: Free verse

the strange flower

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Not the
Perennial
For
The flower showed
Past
Twice
Mine winterz

Mine prayer answered  
That the flower
Be not the biennial
for
Appear yesss
Did it
For mine 
Rest
Bloomed
Beamin...
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Categories: arresting, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem

Haiku Translations by Michael R Burch

...Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beckoning?
—Michael R. Burch

Sleepyheads!
I recite my haiku
to the inattentive lilies.
—Michael R. Burch

Stillness:
the sound of petals
drifting dow...
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Categories: arresting, death, god, grave, life,
Form: Haiku

Haiku Translations III

...These are original haiku by Michael R. Burch and his translations of haiku by the Japanese masters Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Masaoka Shiki, and others. 

Am I really this old,
so many ghosts
beck...
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Categories: arresting, blue, life, night, old,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTeasing Tickeling Breathes Of A Summer Breeze

...Warm breaths arresting and caressing
As sublime as a summer breeze
Tickle and tease 
That they do to waving pink cherry blossom clusters that cling 
To their submissive obedient bowing host
The ...
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Categories: arresting, beautiful, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Poetic Reflections Of Someones Prescious Soul

...As sensitive and as fragile 
As a mottled Butterflies tissue paper wings 
As gentle and tender as a teasing caressing arresting summer breeze
As transparent and crystal clear as a calm ocean
As j...
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Categories: arresting, best friend, blessing, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberU Can 2

...U can 2 was on the license plate of my 
store manager brown Benz where a dead man 
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store 
manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan 
had just ...
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Categories: arresting, allah,
Form: Ghazal

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