Best Ropes Poems

I move, I move, 
My wheels turn like wild things
My hands cry the rims
I run in my dreams
I jump with style
I dance

I move, and dance
My eyes sing like sopranos
My mouth uses color
Like a rainbow
Behind me
I run

I run and I run
The drip lines in my arm
Are...

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On a wooded path next to the sea
Three strong ropes dangled from a tall tree.
     They were hung there for swinging
     So guess who was clinging
To one for dear life? Yes, 'twas me!

Seeing them brought me back...

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hard against the wall
the seat of death finally rests
in ironic drape, ropes hang
wicker basket waits
a twist, a turn, beheaded
mans inhumanity dealt...

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Frayed Bell Ropes

Time

did not

disfigure   her

nor    disillusionment

disarm the strike of clapper’s tears

shed in the agony of renewed peace.

fraying bell ropes forgotten joy
calling
home


6/4/2017

submitted to – New Form – The BELL – Poetry Contest...

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White  house  picket  fence  garden
Black hair kohl eyes  blue rose lips 
Chef folding egg whites into souffle
Defrosting preparing cooking lunch
Sculpture of a laurel-crowned  bust
Oriental  rugs  bare  wooden  floors
Inhale   a   sweet ...

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The wind came down from the canyon with a quite heat
It was to his back as he faced the crashing waves
He watched the pelicans skimming the rolling surf
The sun warmed sand felt comforting beneath his feet

Turning north, he walked casually, avoiding people
His gaze focused on...

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Don't know what I'm doing.
Trembling I learn
to express my thoughts
and feelings with 
new exciting words.
Innocent yet mindless
to poetic etiquette.
No disrespect 
to the masters
of it's grace and elegance.
Couldn't really tell you
a stanza from a blitz.
Hoping you'll all guide me
just a tiny bit,
so I dont look a...

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I'm a beautiful mess in a dress or some sweats
I confess life is hectic right now and I'm stressed
Wont forget that I'm blessed but it's hard to remember. When I'm stayin at the shelter
With my son and these mice must think they family members
It get...

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chained
it’s animosity  
and i know he is not mine
but the wolf longs to be free
i feel his agony in the form of anger

the ropes that hold us down 
in every way keep us bound
and i hear his cry to be released 
still what can...

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down on my knees begging please free me from these ropes with no hope as I try to cope holding on to these strings as my life depended as I fence off all optical illusions  in my way as I have done so for...

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Roar’n of the lion, silence of the lamb
O-o-o-o…O-o-o-o…O-o-o-o*

In pit of despair, color robbed from his face,
Joseph loosed from his coat, sold as a slave.

Roar’n of the lion, silence of the lamb
O-o-o-o…O-o-o-o…O-o-o-o

Swallowed by the sea, whale amidst the waves.
Jonah no longer pouts, he’s in a dark...

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My bug out bag would include my grandchildren.
It would have to be large, because I have ten.
My cat and dog would go in and my wild raccoons.
They count on me for their food right?

My husband could stay home.
I have had him so long we are...

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When we stand so close that I feel your breath
And we are looking into each others eyes
I feel the strands of love; as fine as hair
Reach out from your heart; and from mine
And they entwine within each other
They they wind their way into - and...

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Turning and turning till I turn through myself, then into myself......

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Full of passion; it's here I 
stand,
with two ropes taut in each 
hand;
neither yet worth to let go; 
how long must I grip until I 
know? 

Mighty Atlas, I wish I could be, 
for the earth it feels weighs 
down on me;
the pain is torture...

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