Best Measureless Poems
The Measureless MotionThe river flows on,
Though there are murky forests
On its either side....
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Categories:
measureless, life, nature, philosophy, river,
Form:
Haiku
The Measureless SpanThis little we have is a lifetime.
A day in the sun and the dark
is all this little we have.
If we blossomed at the speed of most flowers
hours would be the little we have.
A child is the span of the world,
a person, the whole of its...
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Categories:
measureless, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
MeasurelessTo measure up the moments
How measureless they be
‘Til toil consumes and life concludes
We notice – suddenly
That ‘twas not so immeasurable
Nor not so ponderous
But with a token patience
We could have counted all
And whether life had beckoned
And sped a firmer hand
Or whether it ease gradually
A snail upon...
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Categories:
measureless, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Only Fish Have the Proper ScalesA man he would a-measuring go
With compass, scales and string.
The ambition he harboured
To measure the height,
To measure the width,
To measure the length,
To measure the weight,
To measure the strength
Of every, no every conceivable thing.
And so it was that he spent his life
Measuring all from his toes...
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Categories:
measureless, allegory, crazy, sea,
Form:
Rhyme