Best Happen Upon Poems
The View From a Window...A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted snow;......
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Categories:
happen upon, life,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wandered Lonely As a Leaf That Falls...Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I heard a far bird's calls
Magic I'd mis......
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Categories:
happen upon, appreciation, autumn, beauty, dance,
Form:
Lyric
Red Roses...
Of all the flowers- it is the rose I love the best,
And the most beautiful to me is the color red;
In my journals sweet red roses I have pressed,
Cover me with roses red when ......
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Categories:
happen upon, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Syrian Refugees...SYRIAN REFUGEES
I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees
I'm watching the desperat......
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Categories:
happen upon, political, war,
Form:
Quatrain
A Long Poem From a Brief Encounter...I saw him before I saw her…(I believe she was holding the door.)
There was a far away look in his eyes as he shuffled his feet on the floor.
I felt a twinge of sorrow for him as he slowly labored......
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Categories:
happen upon, age, love,
Form:
Verse
Secret Directions To Jilliby Farm...Enter beside the hollow log mailbox.
Here the road leads through a profusion of leafy damp shadows.
Wild ferns are the underbrush
where Fairy Wrens flit from the slightest presence.
This driveway......
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Categories:
happen upon, beauty, earth, environment, farm,
Form:
Free verse
Nymphs At Play...It is not easy to happen upon them,
Pure nymphs in their natural beauty.
It happened to me only once when
I was resting beneath a red sunset maple,
As the summer hear began to soar.
A stone t......
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Categories:
happen upon, dance, mystery, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Alone Among the Hoodoos...Wandering through the badlands
of the great south western plains
I happen upon a great assembly of
fairy spires, other worldly
wonders of rocky pinnacles
that dot the high desert landscape.
S......
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Categories:
happen upon, anxiety, fear, travel, ,
Form:
Free verse
The Ex-Soldier...I happen upon a veteran, once,
An old man
With a four-sprang cane
And war tales
Stretched like China wall.
This event transpired in very recent past.
The man turned out to be pterodactyl
And flew awa......
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Categories:
happen upon, childhood, history, political, social,
Form:
Lyric
Wildflowers...The wildflower begins its life as a seed
Within itself it contains all it will need
Along with the rain and the sun to feed
To become something we can't it will succeed
For despite the problems that......
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Categories:
happen upon, flower, inspirational, life, time,
Form:
Quatrain
My Perfect World...
In my perfect world there would be no guns,
or bombs, no terrorists and no wars;
we would bring our soldiers home alive,
no poverty or abuse would exist.
Love,......
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Categories:
happen upon, peace, world,
Form:
Verse
In Succession...In Succession
Queen's grandson has been happily married
She smiled each time future child was carried
By Princess above all who is as lovely as her
Who we wanted to see when taking a tour.
T......
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Categories:
happen upon, allegory, gender, history,
Form:
Couplet
Values...The atmosphere is about to change
In a way that can't be explained
Families will be reunited and fires will be reignited.
The most important things in life touch your heart the most,
Have no ......
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Categories:
happen upon, encouraging, family, journey, motivation,
Form:
Lyric
Not Him Who Wears My Face...Woman! darkly gleam is your work I esteem…love it!
From mountainous mountain top to valley‘s belly
I hear you pluck…on eagle‘s wings…onward pluck
How nice, your device visits and forces in their s......
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Categories:
happen upon, child, death, space,
Form:
Sonnet
Prayer For Winter Years...Replenish the Spring within our souls
Let dreams slumbered live in daylight
Happen upon us another chance
To find joy in dance when steps alight
Rejuvenate that which lives within
Give wings to olde......
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Categories:
happen upon, hope, love, romance,
Form:
Light Verse