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Best Trajectory Poems

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Premium Member And I Am Grateful
A field of wheat cloaked in dewy silence
the orchestra tunes up with avian arias
bullfrog basses and a choir of cawing crows,
xanthic sunflowers turning their heads...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trajectory, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Together For the Long Ride
The perky saleslady looked at my aging bicycle
and asked if I would consider a newer model
something lighter
something sexier.

I told her, "My bike and I have...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trajectory, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My High School Math Teacher
Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trajectory, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Shooting Stars
A spectacular show enlightens heavens above
In ephemeral musings of burning meteoroids
Mimicking likeness of falling ornamental stars--
Beaming streaks of rainbow-colors earthbound,

When earth crosses trajectory of comet's...

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Categories: trajectory, sky, space, star, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Cherish the moments, rising on fabric of fuchsia skies,
Painting motifs of amber dawn,...

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Categories: trajectory, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Elemental Designs
ELEMENTAL DESIGN

Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy

An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous 
We dream...

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Categories: trajectory, heaven, moon, science, science
Form: Free verse
An Open Window
I watch this world pass by, 
miracle after miracle, 
overcome with thoughts 
of life and death - 
heated in a buttery sky;
the air melts into...

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Categories: trajectory, faith, imagery, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Dark Night Sky
In the Dark Night Sky

In the Dark Night Sky, a “Pale Moon” now arises suddenly, 
With clouds of ice sparkling in a frozen-cold ring around...

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Categories: trajectory, allegory, change, destiny, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Highveld Storm
Oh Aphrodite! Mother of my two pearls
Venus of my night sky
Commander of my world

I fell for you like a comet
I burnt for you like Mars
Abide...

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Categories: trajectory, break up, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Second Delay
Hesitation
Just a moments delay
Lives change forever
Trajectory altered 
Heading to the unknown
Why? Why?
I so liked my routine
The unchanging gives me security
Makes me feel safe
I like to...

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Categories: trajectory, introspection, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ramblings of the Water Mistress
I feel the water
above me
below me
all around me
intimate
caressing
accepting
loving me

I go further down
to touch the bottom of the pool
and there
on the two painted dolphins
I push my...

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Categories: trajectory, identity, water,
Form: Free verse
My Red-Tailed Hawk
He was mighty as could be venturing down by the sea,
revered as the king soaring over his golden throne-
He was respected yet felt neglected and...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trajectory, beauty, bird, depression, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member October Sky
clip arts veil the sky
on sun’s trajectory slide
a welcoming sight

summer month’s debut
while flowers’ heyday aglow
red sky flecks from blue

clouds in flare stance
grand aura of blissful...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trajectory, october, sky,
Form: Haiku
The Bullet From My Gun
The Bullet from My Gun



I am propelled like a bullet from a gun barreling through space, 
Through your flesh, 
Through the time you have misspent...

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Categories: trajectory, violence,
Form: Free verse
Lunar Ticking
American cosmonaut
	moonwalking
Humanity is tethered to the line,
sweating vacuum fear facing the void
Planet of the apes ...
	backwards talking
Silent film projector reel
spinning in reverse ... time capsule...

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Categories: trajectory, allusion, dark, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things