Best Movements Poems

written on time’s page
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With such feminine flamboyancy
this maiden sways in breathtaking  movements
flashing, flitting, flaming a sweet minuet--
beneath a mural of moonlight’s alchemy,
her flared gown fair as sequined feathers
that midway, in birdsong's  sultry  melody,
her flight  of  fancy floats on my garden- floor
and like a...

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When evening’s bass tone whips a refrain
Strummed by an old man  in our country yard; 
A most haunting string--movement  dims the air
Reminiscent of my young, bygone days. 

His fiddle plucks through my  hidden places
Where the touch   wails   speak...

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Movements of a Distant Sun

Far out in the cosmos 
A cloud of gas 
has become a sun 
On earth we watch its movements 
From our small planet 
We consider the distant star 
Have civilizations grown up there?
Have other voices lifted their voices in song?
Light -...

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The winds were loudly whistling,
Blowing the trees’ leaves all around;
God sneezed and misty rain fell to the ground;
In an instant, blades of green grass began to glisten.
 
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As his rider gives the judge a glance,
He tosses his mane and shifts his stance;

The winner he is, without a doubt,
He trots in place and then moves out;

Not quite believing what I saw,
I watched in silence, struck in awe;

Almost as if he wants to tease;
He...

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black reality…
maimed and killed on video:
daily news tv.

injustice must go---
what’s seen is no enactment;
it’s real as was meant.

all of this crap stop.
our lives are in jeopardy;
by hands of rogue cops.

no justice, no peace---
empty chants easily ignored;
when will the breach cease?

attempt self-defense,
and we’re a violent threat:
blacks...

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privileged clouds catch breath...
meadowlark’s song bridges gulf...
rain's tympanic leaves

Brian Johnston
November 11, 2015...

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Hurricane Haiku: 5 Movements

		The sea is angry;
		The winds echo her screaming—
		The hurricane comes…

		Torrential waves
		Carry furry to the shores:
		Fragility doomed…

		Island paradise,
		Poised and ready for combat;
		Nature’s sad beauty…

		Nature lashing out—
		An unwanted canvassing
		Of hurricane grief:-
		
		The calm sea rippling...
		Lifeless bodies floating death:
		The storm moves onward....

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Somewhere upon the terminator’s birth
The young lovers dance and sway
To a symphony of dawn and starlight
Undulating within newfound passions
These two naively press and discover
The zealous meaning of temperate youth

Lost within the mornings heavy rise
They run through the soft breaking crests
Crashing upon their rococo painted beaches
Living...

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Movements arise, much to our surprise, protesting against autocracy.

We interpret the fight, as being just, and right, and favoring democracy.

But what if we’re wrong, and it’s just a swan song, to disguise something more fundamental?

We’ll have to rethink, or swim and then sink, ‘cuz it...

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Music moves me.
 I know it's supposed to. 
Some irritates me
 I know it's supposed to.
Not being able to read it
Or write it
 Has not stopped me from judging it
I know I'm supposed to
 My paintings have been displayed
To move people
Some probably irritate people
 They...

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Peace Movements


A mentor of mine once tasked me
to do three things each day
for others….and not get found out.

Being a slightly egocentric,
self – centered….DO WHAT!!!
kinda guy --  I questioned…..

to myself……is he crazy?
Yet he was the mentor
I the recalcitrant student

so I attempted this task.
How difficult could...

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Had I the movements of the inward crane,
That darts in rhythm between the lunar tangle:
My patience would go amiss
For such ascension bound to the solar rays.
And the earthly shores
That utter contempt and fold back the might
Would hear the quiet, sweet inhale
Before they crumble away at...

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Bees in jumpsuits cannot really fly but caterpillar boats can go very very fast down the canals. It is an oversized cake that bungee jumps for the longest period of time at the sponge competitions where the cream of trophies is to be won. And...

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