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Best Shunting Poems

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Premium Member Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative



I Am Poetry
I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation 
               ...

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, dedication, devotion, dream, hope,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer"...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum
The Republic of Jenish, the Lost Resort
Once there was an intellect called smoke, the philosopher
Architect of a new republic of peace by dare
Shunting viruses by tolerance
Eliminating interferences by endurance
Bloody this domain...

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Categories: shunting, humor, endurance,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Stock

			Stock

Lines derail trains made from stern stock
    shunting worsted words in wagons to and fro
cabins depleted by looters piled on dock
 ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member What You Do Not See Is Not Necessarily Not There
I

 
Take out the caked grimy faucet plug

Let those unseen crawlies dive and duck

           ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, health, philosophy, care, care,
Form: Free verse
In Mammary Of: Maternal Bosoms
breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way...

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Categories: shunting, absence, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
Billingsgate Fish Market 1900
It so early it's only four o'clock and it's dark on a freezing cold and wet morning,
A man with a cap rings a bell to...

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Categories: shunting, history, dark, dark, fish,
Form: Prose Poetry
Autumn Equinox 2018
I riff flecked about thee august
     Autumn Equinox 2018,
     this polymath learned why,
September Equinox
   ...

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Categories: shunting, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Feet, Feet That Walked Away With the Toes
Heavy the hoods of the eyes
  that laboured the scan of horizons
Heavy the course of the thoughts
  that sat unstirred on the sill...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, history, lost, lost,
Form: Ballad
Butterflies and Dragonflies
Butterflies and Dragonflies

Butterflies and dragonflies flutters in daze,
all around, remaining oblivious to the maze !
Their little world of nectar, pollen and flowers,
giving more than it...

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© Ram Ram  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shunting, beauty, butterfly, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Debt Slavery
Search for existence spreads thin
Our gasoline days numbered by the sun
While collection hounds scour zombie minds
Striving for fact and nimble opportunity
Institutions shunting brick and mortar
Each...

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Categories: shunting, adventure, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ghost of Bellows Beach
I.

Rushing ocean, rushing
Forward, and tell me 
Where my name 
Began.

Where the sand became
A divide,
A father a friend,
A partner in suffering
Bleeding together
Through a sad, sorry 
Kitchen...

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Categories: shunting, faith, life, nature, sound,
Form: Free verse
They All Think They'Re Awesome.
From what I am, i have become, or what i vaugely think.  
so sing my song to play along with the team who thinks...

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Categories: shunting, people, sad, hate, hate,
Form: Free verse
Withdrawn For Good From Rat Race
Soul, slow down your flight
A kindred soul dare to delight
In  your tryst when you hold her tight
 
Savouring every breath, every moment
Shunting aside pain...

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Categories: shunting, poems,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things