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Best Stumbles Poems

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Premium Member Life At a Glance
Enamored, I sit, in mystique of space and time
Glancing at intricacies of ebullience sublime
Contemplating mystery of universe all alone
Through echoes of destiny, heard and known,
Where...

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Categories: stumbles, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Kensington Avenue
"Sweet child in time,
you'll see the line
the line that's drawn between
good and bad"

Having cold sweats again in this godforsaken ninety degree heat. Shivering uncontrollably. God,...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stumbles, emotions,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Domestic Abuse
Under layers of pain wrapped in the hurt, 
Under betrayal hidden from sight,
Pinned to her heart that’s broken and black, 
Pinned to a feeling of...

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Categories: stumbles, abuse, anxiety, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Has Fate Have Something Special Planned
She longs to take possession of her heart, but she quickly forgets.

He used his flattering power to gleam the pages and feast. 

Like the wind...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stumbles, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3
Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
                 residing inside of...

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Categories: stumbles, green, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



The Solstice Door
The light is coming and I wish you well...

Behind the running, running man the land
Lies silent, fallow, haunted by the cry
Of one lone mourning rook...

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Categories: stumbles, life, light, mystery, mythology,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member First Steps
a new born lamb

sways and stumbles

never giving up ~

finds its feet




Written 20th March 2021

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Categories: stumbles, birth, nature,
Form: Haiku
Dreams I Still Taste
When I close my eyes I fall...
I'm dropped into a soul with no walls...
In this dreamworld I'm forced to walk alone...
Strolling my past that's stripped...

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Categories: stumbles, mystery, places, dream, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jubilee of Roses
Neither puppy love nor lust, each insists
in its imperfect play. Their hearts resist
both by clinging in its barbaric way.
Youth forgiven. The wolf begs her to...

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Categories: stumbles, age, love,
Form: Hybronnet
Versions
...inspired by 'A Soldier of the Great War'
   by Mark Helprin

 
The old man stumbles, the young man 
swaggers with assurance. 
Stars of...

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Categories: stumbles, philosophyold, old, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Life
An odyssey through hurdles, yet a blessing it is to dwell on earth,
Aiming for destination beloved, chasing sweet dreams of mirth,
Through successes and failures, amid...

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Categories: stumbles, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories of the Sea
Ah the lovely seasdie
Ah the lovely seaside

Childhood scents
Salt air, Salty bitter memories

Jacques had turned just seven
He dreamed to walk along the seashore
He dreamed to see...

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Categories: stumbles, caregiving, confusion, death, sea,
Form: Light Verse
We Danced
I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stumbles, introspectionme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Lion Looms Listless
A cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his...

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Categories: stumbles, character,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Halo
The music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying...

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Categories: stumbles, depression, drink, inspirational, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs