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Best Runways Poems

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Premium Member Just Within Reach
just within reach?

things!
lots of things!

stuff one could collect,
especially graphic novels
with a writer that made you wish
you had a photographic memory
so you would never forget even...

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Categories: runways, introspection,
Form: I do not know?



The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: runways, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
Dark Night Shopping
Faces come at me as stricken
as graveyard moons.

The supermarket hangs heavy,
laden as it is with neon anchors.
The aisles are runways for empty eyes,
a few sections...

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Categories: runways, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Black Society
Welcome To The Black Society
Welcome to the dead society
I hope you make through it this poem
I hope I make through this poem
I hope gunshots don't...

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Categories: runways, africa, character, freedom, identity,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Our Mind
HAIKU #12,044-12,048


Our mind is lighthouse
Capturing land sea sky with
All of life's runways

Our mind is like sponge
With its filtering system
That's alive like us

Our mind is labyrinth
Much...

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Categories: runways, inspiration,
Form: Haiku



Nothing
This world is a bewitching illusion
The spring, the fragrant flowers, the chirping birds
The waterfalls, the sky, the valleys, the clouds
Are nothing real but delusion.

The gigantic...

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Categories: runways, allegory, life, philosophyworld,
Form: Free verse
Favorite Toy
Favorite Toys

Matchbox cars and helicopter pads,
Airplane runways and little people lads.
Thomas the train and Dora dolls,
Remote controlled trucks and bouncing balls.
Flash cards and coloring books,
Magic...

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Categories: runways, funny
Form: Rhyme
The Things Around Us - Part 2
(Continued from Part 1)


Transparent figures walk at a flirtatious pace
On world-class runways, with no expression on their face
Parading styles you can't afford in your possession
They...

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Categories: runways, life, words, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bent
moved around so fast
outran traces of my past
contacts I'd amassed
with little hesitation
lost sight of situation

not stabilizing
life without compromising
'til next uprising
left holding tight to what was
searching...

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© Ng Rippel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: runways, change, perspective, religion, science,
Form: Tanka
Running Out of Rhyme
I used to move as fast as cars
runways built in space and mars.
I would dart as far as I could trace 
the words moving off...

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Categories: runways, loss, lost, poetry, self,
Form: Free verse
Cat Facts
Cat Facts 

Cats have been known to bark at night in Indonesia
People there don’t like them and find them pretentious
For insomnia cats count lives, 9...

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Categories: runways, cat, celebrity, education, flying,
Form: Didactic
Fading Memories
I miss those
Morning grass underneath my feet
Or listening to lifetime stories on repeat.
I ask you, my son,
Where has that all gone?

I miss that
Wind flying pass...

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Categories: runways, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Resonance
The peril coiled does not replay
the beauty of notes teamed relay
some carry over, some parlay
is echoed by the sounds that stay!

Within the music's balanced chords
that...

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Categories: runways, music, sound,
Form: Monorhyme
And the Dance Shall Lead
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from 
The father of lights, with whom there is no variation or...

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Categories: runways, dedication, father, history, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Lord Have Mercy
Lord Have Mercy (@ Mercer & Broome)

I feel richer already
Says my lungs to my brain
The tactile orgasms and inquisitive Asians
Both ample yet directionally challenged
Growing with...

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Categories: runways, appreciation, autumn, feelings, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things