Best Rolling Poems

The gentle music flows
from every drop of rain,
as it just lightly taps
against my window pane.

The wind begins to whistle
it's own melodious song,
while the wind-chimes
dance and play along.

The soothing sounds cast open
the windows and doors.
I close my eyes and breathe.
The energy surrounds me as my spirit...

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You who ride the storm, the lion of heaven in hell
                     The thunder shook the earth, with stone axes
      ...

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A ribbon of blue snakes through the hills
Carving its path as it meanders along
Rushing and gushing down to the sea
Burbling and gurgling, hear it singing a song

Watch it dancing around with a will of its own
Freely flowing until the end of time
Shimmying over pebbles and...

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When the time arrives for me to depart
from the sunlit harbors of the living.
Take me aboard a navy fighting ship
and carry me back again to the sea.

Order the boatswain to construct a skid
made of wood and painted with fresh white paint.
Build it to hold a...

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From my editor:
     “I’ll call you Deadline Devonshire, a nickname born
     Your tombstone will read, ‘She was never late before’”

From my sister:
     “I’ll take claim to the gene pool’s beauty and brains
 ...

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 rolling in the dough
status quo
I’m watching bread grow




5/3/5
Syllable Count



Oct.10.2018
Baker's Dozen Poetry
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy


Placed 2'nd...

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Beyond the horizon
They rolled in rippling
The clouds majestic
Flamboyant and spectacular
A gentle rumbling motion
Putting on a show
Tumbling with grandeur
In splendor blues and hues
Sweeping across the skies
Undulating swirls and spirals
Flowing shifts and layers
Waves of billowy locomotion



AP: Honorable Mention 2023, Honorable Mention 2022

Published in my photo/poetry book ~ROLLING...

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Watch out and wait. In fact stop listen and wait. Is that the wailing of a sail sailing by? Of course it is. The fact that an ironed breeze can touch a nautical knot is common knowledge amongst sailors and sailors are neither shaped sharpened...

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I hear the willows weeping

in the corners of my mind,

I feel the sand go slipping

through the hourglass of time.


I see the catfish whiskers,

more like tentacles, thick and black,

I sense the wasp nest growing

as I wait for their attack.


I watch the full moon rising

as the sun...

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Rolling

Round and round down the hill
Riding in a tire
Revolves like a windmill
Rotates faster faster!
Reeling wildly and shrill...
Rubber meets quagmire. 
Remorse—after the spill. 

4.13.2021©deborah burch


Pleiades...

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Spiked Drinks Got Them All So Rolling Drunk

Universe spun out of control and died
The planets sputtered out and then fell
The southern boy liked his chicken fried
And preacher's young son rang the old church bell
Hope lost its heart and thus began to cry
The throng laughed away,...

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      I know an ambitious politician
      His nose in the sky like a patrician
          Looks down on all others
       ...

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I think God speaks like rolling thunder  but smiles like a baby...

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I stand at the top of my hill,
Spread my arms and fall and roll,
Over pavement, yellowing grass,
Into balls of trees of autumn.

Jasper, topaz, ruby, and orange true,
At last my windings end 
At the edge of a creek reflecting these,
With ripples of gentle wind,

I pray as...

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Slow Rolling railcars are a better pick,
If high-speed travel makes you sick.

Slow On The Uptake is confusing,
Slow But Sure, safe but unamusing. 

Slow Markets make a stock broker mad,
Slow Release tablets - best to be had!

In the Slow Lane, you're just an onlooker.
Best “Slow” I...

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