Best Awhirl Poems

Here's How It Is:

The atoms dance
While Space expands
And shoals of galaxies race away
Towards every point of no return
And spin and spin
Like Catherine Wheels
And firework flashes
Brilliantly...

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When I think of you, my darling,
I am still that wide-eyed girl
Who held the whole world in her hands
As her heart was set awhirl.

With no...

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revelation of revelations!
an ordinary morning til..
discovery of discoveries 
brittle chrysalis
upside down, branching
breathing, pulsing
I pause and
inspect the
pupa’s fortress
tight and hard as 
childhood memories of
milkweed pods 
splaying,...

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I ordered a large pizza pie
What do you want on it asked guy
His question a pearl
Set my mind awhirl
A sexy young girl answered I...

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My grandmother came from Ireland
from far across the sea.
She had romantic tales to tell
to Sister and to me.
She angered my darling mother 
by filling up...

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Wing footed  winter’s dance is of grey skies,
bare branch silhouettes in silver gowns 
dormant magic within icy poses 
brilliant halls bedecked with frosted flowers....

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Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.

A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
 will serenade.
Stringent Death forthwith anoints...

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I should'a read the fine print
when into the hairdresser's I did go
no guarantee that the shade or tint
won't end up indigo

I looked like a parrot...

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Gone were the days when the sky fell on the ground
It was on a sunny day
I remember, her voice strung out in my sensitivity
I rushed...

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"The Depths"

From the depths
silence.

Where 
are the voices
of other 
women?

In that other place,
the monsters violate, 
they take and take
bloody all, what they want

the dreams of women
are...

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You wake up one morning,
And what to your surprise?
You look down at the package,
Seems like it shrank in size!

You order this new product,
What else are...

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Boris and Natasha's minds were awhirl
As the Russia probe facts did unfurl.
Let's end the confusion
There was no collusion
Was fake news of moose and of squirrel....

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When two people so choose
To join as one
The primary requirement is
Decide to love the beloved.

Then, as happens in love
Two become one in all things
Exclusive, self...

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"Church St. people of the abyss."

                 A pancake breakfast...

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When I was just eighteen and alone on my own,
My heart was cold and hard as a simple stone.
I thought I knew what love was...

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