Best Flipped Poems

At the appointed time (you know not when)
your spirit will kiss this world goodbye.
Sands of your earthly time will then
have run their course. Folks will cry.
Your progeny will be
left behind, and words
hopefully kind
about you
will be
said.
The 
hourglass
at this time
for you alone
will have flipped. Dear ones
will keep...

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In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning Atlantic, Pacific,
As yesteryear in rear view flashes blunt warnings,
And future is admonishing~ morrow is drowning.

Snow-white Alps, soon forgotten dreams of...

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Flipped hourglass: a slipped tide or a passed second, 
Has moved, like drop in a flowing river, beckoned;
Hourglass, an automaton, cannot run itself,
Humans must be at its beck and call, like an elf...

Flipped hourglass: a slipped tide or a passed second, 
Has moved, like drop...

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We flip the hourglass for time,
use moments as each hour's pawn.
Then store Today, when past its prime,
midst Yesterdays--now finished, gone.

If we could make one moment stay
just by flipping the hourglass,
how to choose the hour, the day
so many moments come and pass.

Or, as time's measure disappears,
will...

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Emotions vibrate through the heavens 
Crying out desirous of a love 
Beseeching it’s warm embrace 
Yet it goes unfelt, unheard, unanswered
Hope for a pragmatic love just a dream 
Expectations being preconceived 
For the universe could not grasp 
the greatness of her yearning, 
This she had...

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Flipped Hourglass

Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret flowing unrestricted
Into a ballet arabesque of transparent history 
Irretrievable
Uncatchable
Lost like a tear drop in desert sea dances
Prodigals or prophets unable to...

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Running after chimeras
I realised not that
Life's most precious essence
Was being left behind

Racing against time
I strived to rule over oceans
And to have rose gardens
Blooming in their midst

And each time I would look at my portrait
I would shudder
As the painting was getting old
And little insects had even...

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Life, here hangs on a filmy thread of hope
Unskilled acrobats, making tight rope walks 
With the deep chasm gaping below
Some too fatigued to feel the stress,
Empty beds bearing
The scars of lost battles

Shaded rooms brooding in the gloom,
Pervading silence speaking mutely
Of burnt hopes and dreams,
Of flipped...

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Thought spirals
Eating us alive
Remorselessly
Gnawing our soul

We lift our hand
As a stop signal
The bubbles burst
Noiselessly

In staid silence
Tranquil equipoise
Flow of time ends
Melding with the void

Awareness self-aware
Porous and receptive
Invites bliss currents
To suffuse our heart

Dance of polarities
Rotates with each breath
Essence of presence
Celebrates divine union

01-February-2022
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Flipped Hourglass

Count, onward we go, pivoting seized dunes,
Tempestuous pilgrimage outstretched phase,
Tick - tock, flops, 'tis a dog's day afternoon's,

O'er perpetual movements like scarred toons,
Lunar ... solar,...

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we will flip our lid
hearing that we have COVID
of want to get rid...

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The burden of the world 
  on his frail shoulders
The man in the White House
  has never seemed older

But he's the leader we've got
  and that counts for a lot
When he's said to veer off-script 
  perhaps the script has flipped...

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Flipped Hourglass

Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret flowing unrestricted
Into a ballet arabesque of transparent history 
Irretrievable
Uncatchable
Lost like a tear drop in desert sea dances
Prodigals or prophets unable to...

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Trinkets, salt packet from road trip sixteen years ago
  Collected, cafes remembered, ripped open with age
   Spilt among treasure, a twig, tickets, torn butterfly
     Bits familiar, shrine in a tin, tired feather, belated
     ...

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Today while I was at the grocery store 
getting some food and whatnot. I saw
the strangest thing. While I was headed
to my car, two guys were arguing in the
parking lot. Next, I couldn't believe my
eyes. One guy got flipped the bird. He
was in total shock....

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