Best Closings Poems

Snowflakes adorn blurry morn, gently, gently trickling down 
As salted streets are turning brown across this weary town
While tilting trees blow wheeze of breeze in throe of snow
In aerial dance of wintry woe, as tips of twigs sun rays glow.

Driving slowly, traffic is moving, blinkers...

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Trying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie room, the sound of a tea kettle's whistle,  the ice cold feeling of oak boards on bare feet, between...

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The sun is shining bright, but the world is dark
This pandemic has swept the world and every park
I saw it coming a couple months ago
But the preparations were lacking, and scared me so
Now, some places have come a horror show
No masks, lack of supplies, as...

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It happened quickly, not three full days
after the last sturdy leaf of the
flowering linden tree surrendered to
late fall winds.

Snowfall, lots of it. Over a foot
the first time. Shoveling, digging out,
slow traffic, and all those school closings.
A combination of weighty snow and hard ice.

At night, after...

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I won't say goodbye, it's a word that implies, something now is ending,
And I'm too full of endings, to want that extra load.
Instead, I'll think evening has come, a night must now pass.
Yet with the stars just like our sun to show us all the...

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“Tessellate” 

on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate

inadvertent 
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks 

with the other sides
planned strategic functional 
quantity rich quality lacking

Human

our words our ways
opposites 
like magnets attract, it all fits 

we think it doesn’t, yet
from the beginning of time 
it has been like...

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Heavens wintry dew
Leaves thoroughfares icier
Forcing school closings....

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From an old wooden shack 
Beside a long dusty road 
In the county ten miles from town 
Their bare feet did stroll 
In the thirties eating dust 
Following the slogan California or bust 
As jobs around here were nil, if found 
Many an old automobile...

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For the realistic and the optimistic

Been watching the news, it gives me nothing but the blues and it's the politicians who's turning the screws, we have a situation witch needs to be defused or everybody's about to loose. Relations are starting to corrode people has...

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Curtains
Openings and closings
Drawing eyes in when raised
Brings fancy color to the stage
Drapes...

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A sunrise kisses morning's dew
and makes the flowers sing
butterflies are formed anew 
stately on their wing
highlights of a new day
begin in nature's flock
of openings and closings - the universe's clock
happiness a constant  - striving
to retain - knowledge of it's promise
now and then to wane
fly...

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An elevator;
takes you up and down 
frequently;day and night;
either  to  heaven; or to  hell;
It depends how you behave;
Sometimes upward;
other times  downward;
or even to underground !
It looks like  God’s own iron hands;
who orders to be carried
either up or down;
Down to the...

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This dreary day, cold winter brings a storm;  
the snowflakes densely falling, fine and fast,     
with frenzied pace and not a single pause.   

Most all who could, stayed home to take a pause.  
Closings declared, this day's...

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Oh my im so tired, frustraed, confuse
drained of all energy heart frozen,but
my mind still amused.

It's been so long since i felt a heavyness on my body
holding me still while my blood rushes warmly inside me.

Who are you?
Why are you here?
Why do you seem to say...

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how …

how many odes have been composed
for the sake of the human eye?
since humans first etched papyrus
or chiseled stone
or painted cavern facades by firelight
the magnificence of the visual organ
has been given its due reward
for what is more compelling -
more breathtaking
more expressive and emotional
more deep or...

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