Best Cut Across Poems
The Sea ShoreThe sea shore, where thoughts become untied,
and the spirit yearns with its ebb and flow,
watching the sun cut across the horizon like a dull knife,
as the day moves through time to the color red.
There between amber light and rendered dark,
waves allow silence to dwell.
Asking the...
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Categories:
cut across, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Path Most TakenOn the gurgling remains of Winter
as she seeps back into the earth
on a path around a lake
flanked by the casualties of winter's breath
cattails...
brown and bent with broken heads
backs turned to the pale yellow corn stock stubble
standing in mud...
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Categories:
cut across, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Boy Who Writes Aloneneeds no introduction
nor permission
to be anything.
He does not request
to spread his arms wide
and reach the heavens.
His words are unmoored.
They flow and change,
remaking things
before the world sees them.
His...
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Categories:
cut across, introspection, journey, poetry, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The AcornWhat story should I tell?
This is the tale of how the lonely acorn fell
far from where the mighty oak had stood
cut by the hands of man, felled for its wood.
The mother-father tree lay across the laid bare land
cut down in the forest...
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Categories:
cut across, environment, life,
Form:
Personification
I Am Hiv - AidsI AM HIV/AIDS
Saint Luke predicted me long time ago,
While the Book of Revelation warned you about me.
I am raging like a wild fire,
I am growling like a lion,
I have spotted you and I will pounce on you!
I am HIV/AIDS!
I...
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Categories:
cut across, fear, hope, sad, me,
Form:
Narrative
Reflections of a Summer DayHere I sit on a summer day among the pine trees along a mountain side.
Looking out across the valley below.
I see the colors of summer landscape spread across the valley.
In all shapes and sizes, like a jigsaw puzzle of nature.
The rivers and roads cut across...
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Categories:
cut across, beautiful, inspiration, introspection, places,
Form:
Free verse
Simple Acts of Kindness
Simple acts of kindness
Can turn the world around;
From dull and gray with little to say
To something far more profound.
The touch of a hand says, “I understand
The pain you must be feeling.
I’m here by your side
Even when you can’t hide
From all life’s difficult dealings.”
A telephone ring...
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Categories:
cut across, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Dark Eyed TravellerStanding at the tavern door,eyes dark and brooding
Neath his floppy hat, stared into the crowded room,
A Raven flew from his shoulder settling in rafters high,
He smiled a sardonic smile and ordered a mug of ale.
All turned to look at this dark eyed traveller tall,
His leather...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, analogy, beach, drink,
Form:
Ballad
The Woman With the Whiskey Bottle As Her TombstoneLearning to distinguish between and having a compassion for-silence that protects pain and silence that protects injustice has been a difficult important lesson-Julie Buckner Armstrong
...
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Categories:
cut across, death, murder, riddle,
Form:
Narrative
It's a Metaphor, Hazel GraceOutside something creeps
In the rustling of the grass
And the crackling of the bushes
The moon licks its thumb
And turns the page
Of the next book
Humans can be so dull, you know?
Light spills into the cracks
Of the sidewalks the puddles
Shrivel up in the undying sun
And I am...
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Categories:
cut across, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
The School of LifeAs you walk through the corridors of life, its highways and by-lanes, the
back-alleys and well-beaten trails, through lush jungles or the arid scorching wilderness you pickup tidbits or sometimes gems of wisdom at the unlikely places, from the unlikely people, sometimes very much alive...
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Categories:
cut across, life,
Form:
Haibun
On the Road To Recovery - An Echo PoemAn Echo Poem by Neethu Panicker and Brian Johnston
WHY DOES IT HURT?
Why does it hurt,
When you whisper “Good-bye Love?”
Why does it hurt,
When you don’t sigh “Oh Hi Love?”
Why does it hurt,
When you say “You are my friend?”
Why does it hurt,
When I dream “You’re...
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Categories:
cut across, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trap-2THE TRAP
The trap is open, with the bait arguing out
Its immunity with the victim somewhere
In a world that flashes its sharpened sword
To cut across all those rock-hard impunities
You petulant preacher comment not on that,
Count your days instead and collect your doom
Mouth craving, head reeling, you...
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Categories:
cut across, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
For the One I KnowFor the One I Know
In the ray of the rising sky
Will I raise my voice to the Most High
To glorify His Gracious name
The one that is never the same
With anything or bear by lords or gods.
On kneel will I affirm that no gods
Like Him. He...
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Categories:
cut across, faith, god, power, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some unfortunate accident.
“Be careful, Hunter.”
A dramatic otherworldly start to our long...
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Categories:
cut across, age, art, birth, devotion,
Form:
Prose