Best Cusp Poems

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...

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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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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...

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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...

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Living on the cusp
Aching to be swallowed up –
Sans net, free fall....

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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...

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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...

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the telephone wires
fan out just like the sun's rays
but offer no warmth
they are but lines up above
connecting all the houses

the warmth of the sun
covers all during the day
but not if hidden
the sun just is and will be
connection hangs in the sky

the orchestrator
the one who dictates...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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An overachieving college student
                with lofty ambitions.

         Her education is finally over,
   a completion of a complicated puzzle.

  ...

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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...

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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...

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