Best Careens Poems

Off his leash, he escapes,
diving under a chair.
Through each room of our house, 
he darts here; he darts there.

Little scamp can’t be caught.
He careens crazily.
For...

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Soldiers dying,
      Wives crying;
      Politicians lying,
      Wise men 'why-ing.'

 ...

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Encased in earthen form, I rise,
held chest-tight with fear my eyes belie.
Tumbled stone and ancient steps so steep,
lead to a mound and valley deep
where I...

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I can see clearly 
what has always been.
Love's Horizon
nothing more and nothing less.

My soul careens in this
new emotion timeless
and pure.
Drawn to you by your
dauntless love.

Once...

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The air is crisp, cold weather
that you can sink your teeth into.
It's midwinter with a brief break
between rainy weather fronts.

My fat limping dog and I...

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A.W. Nutter

Condemning chants from the crowd
Final resting place growing nearer
Death envelopes, in a dark shroud
Plunging toward the final chapter

Weight of the rough hewn wood
More than...

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Chemically: crystalline carbon compound
Commonly consumed as coffee, Coke 
Choices? Consider chocolate
Craziness careens corners

Attitude and attention adjuster
Autumn afternoon activator
Accelerated activities
Ask another altruistic answerable

Fathoming fatherhood 
Folgers: fresh...

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Diatonic tree's,

slimy grease,

clanky careens-
and dodgy reefs,

slogs of sleeves
of Bogs of things,

one character breathe's,

another is obscene,

have you not heard of a ......

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Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth...

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As tangy waft  careens into my mind
To softly rouse a glittering twilight,
I frolic with the northern breeze, refined 
On imprints of an ever- threading...

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Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El."...

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One lopes through 
his dense tree occupied domain,
  thinly dappled,dispersed stripes 
            ...

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Red hue adorns the western sky
As the blazing sun descends
Tears fall freely from my eyes
Prayers stifled, as daylight ends

Frightened and alone, in this cell
Sleep would...

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Winding path through the tawny wood
Hanging branches form a shadowy hood
Dangling vines each spindled fold lace
Slippery, svelte moss cloaks the base
The vented light peeps through...

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Sweet virgin, with the tenderest eyes,
We will burn together at the stake.
For all the dreams we tried to douse,
That have kept us both awake.

For I...

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