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Premium Member Spinning Top - Winged Vehicle
Hear ye, hear ye: Listen to my timeless presentation
If you'd like to conquer anger, irritation, or vexation.

My name is Emerson, Ralph Waldo if you please,
I founded Transcedentalism, creating a fresh breeze
Which elevates and fortifies an individual's will and spirit,
To withstand provocations intended expressly to smear...

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Categories: spinning top, anger, flying, magic, moving
Form: Light Verse
Spinning Top
6/6/12

I begin spinning
Watching the top spiral, winning
The consistancy leaves me grinning

The top still goes 
Round and round, alone
When it stops, no one knows

Interesting enough it goes out of control
My heart races in a strange drum roll
The craziness of life has taken its toll

All ablur, it's...

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Categories: spinning top, depression, life, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Spinning Top Toddler
I still have faint memories of the day
When in our small living room I did play
A toddler of three, spinning on my head
Lord, why wasn’t I born a boy instead?

Acrobatic talent was freely shown
But I was wearing a dress; grandma moaned
Swatted me, “Act like a...

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Categories: spinning top, childhood, funny, sports
Form: Kyrielle

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Spinning Top
Life unravels
like the string
powering
the top
sends it spinning
until it comes to
an almighty stop....

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Categories: spinning top, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spinning Top
Panther calling Kestrel-- over
No response
Panther calling Kestrel-- over
No response
Panther calling Kestrel, time is critical--over
No response
Kestrel calling Panther, break in comms, big spinning top is taking us into  wintertime, you are among friends, sending new coordinates-- over
No response
Kestrel calling Panther--over
No response
Panther this is Kestrel, data...

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Categories: spinning top, conflict, confusion, death, war,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry