Best Cusp Poems
At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and a spoon; singing a lyrical song.
"Wondrous Moon," said I, "lamp unto this night,
may your lustrous path stay vigilant and not stray."
In comply, I saw strung on high, myriads of...
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Categories:
cusp, moon, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
On the cusp of becoming
Every so often, my mind wanders back to the summer of my youth, where a specific memory awaits.
Having completed my first year at University, I’ve come home. My younger brother John, fifteen, seems all grown up, so different. He’s gotten taller but it’s more than that.
I'm surprised when he offers me a tour...
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Categories:
cusp, age, brother, future, growing
Form:
Haibun
On the Cusp
Time came as the fourth dimension
It wiped away all allusion
Transition from special to general relativity
increased the universe's accessibility
Time travel once a hyperbole
is now possible through wormhole
The geometry of space-time
made gravity an age old mime
For high precision came the strontium clock
which made cesium an uninhabited block...
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Categories:
cusp, science, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Cusp of Something Greater
Back at home lazing like a bum
Like the doctor told me to do
A broken record sings its stilted tune
Never getting onto something new
Wonder what it's going to be like
When I'm back on my feet again
On the cusp of something greater now
And I feel like I could use a friend
Holding onto life
The way it used to...
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Categories:
cusp, fear, growing up, leaving,
Form:
Lyric
We Are On the Cusp of Fall
We are on the Cusp of Fall
By Franklin Price
9/15/2016
We are on the cusp of fall
A chill is in the air
Leaf colors changing on the trees
Won't be long until they're bare
Hot days of Summer sweltering
Are coming to an end
The days are in transition
Nature once again to mend
Preparing for the Winter
Birds, again, are passing through
Our feeders...
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Categories:
cusp, nature, seasons, september,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Cusp
Living on the cusp
Aching to be swallowed up –
Sans net, free fall....
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Categories:
cusp, life, trust,
Form:
Haiku
Autumn Cusp
Late November dawn. Sun’s rays slanting low
Filtering through a haze of naked trees
To stream, in weakened state, through my window
Caressing my face, as the darkness flees
The colour of the light, warming my walls,
Banishes thought of winter’s cold fingers
And, though, daily, the temperature falls,
So much of autumn’s beauty still lingers
Red leafed vines paint the near terraced...
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Categories:
cusp, hope, life, nature, seasons
Form:
Sonnet
On the Cusp of Job
His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes…when a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.”
Job...
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Categories:
cusp, bible, christian,
Form:
Free verse
Cusp of Equinox
Last night ached with the fear of fall.
I stubbed a toe against the dark.
And then came morning, sparking
ponderosa’s candles one after another;
igniting every living bird with the spirit
of song as we tip the seasons,
the sun tilting to touch each stunned tree
with the amber of its sap, so it stands
for the...
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Categories:
cusp, introspection, nature, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Just Shy O the Concupiscent Cusp
As par and parcel of being
alive wire impossible aye
to maintain totally tubularly
literarily celibate by and bye
with parochial restraint antiseptic dry
as dust poetic refrains
asper this healthy older guy
devoid of physical whim zee
unlike a inscrutable eunuch...so hi
there dear...
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Categories:
cusp, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Cusp of Springtime
As I stood, night half fell in the car park,
Stuck between twilight and sheer dark,
Suicidal on the ledge of near dark,
And I touched the fire-station wall.
In the quiet empty void of a slow chill,
Like the march of an ant up an ant hill,
Hanging on yet unable to keep still,
The shift of the seasons befall.
The fingers...
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Categories:
cusp, life, loss, sad, seasons,
Form:
Verse
On the Cusp of Destiny
An overachieving college student
with lofty ambitions.
Her education is finally over,
a completion of a complicated puzzle.
A summa cum laude graduate
with...
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Categories:
cusp, destiny, future, student, success,
Form:
Verse
On the Cusp of a Dream
I waiver on the cusp of a dream
while through a keyhole I envision
a gathering of cherubic flowers
perfect faces as innocent as creation.
Pure, guileless faces of all colors and races
earnestly plead with tears in their eyes
"save us!” they softly whisper in unison
then fading to black, I can hear their sad cries.
With a gasp I awaken as...
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Categories:
cusp, abuse, death, innocence, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
At The Cusp
At the cusp
Of a wave, a change, a fall
Into total darkness
Here we stand
Or rather slide
Headfirst into destruction
And as we fall
Into chaos and dissolution
We will at last be saved
And in that moment
What we took for granted
Will be lost
Within the total chaos
Law and order will be established
And with it the end of freedom...
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Categories:
cusp, anxiety, society,
Form:
Free verse
On the Cusp
All our lives we’re on the cusp
When entering a phase,
From infancy to toddlerhood
And on, all through our days.
We go to school and then we’re on
The cusp of a career.
We date and fall in love; the cusp
Of family life draws near.
We reach the cusp of middle age
And possibly success,
Along with all the highs...
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Categories:
cusp, life,
Form:
Rhyme