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Best Turnaround Poems

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Premium Member Turnaround Blues
~ Sung to Standard 
     3-Chord Blues Riff ~


  Don't have no money
    Don't have no job
...

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Categories: turnaround, god, growth, hope, wife,
Form: Rhyme



The Turnaround
We have come to the juncture
   They are at the turnaround
            ...

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Categories: turnaround, anniversary, change, character, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Aloha Spirit
Aloha Spirit

Sol, with his golden crown, greets me each morning
within divine rays extending out over emerald hills
and valleys that absorb his warmth of abiding light.

View...

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Categories: turnaround, bird, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken On This Day
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air 
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:...

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Categories: turnaround, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Winter Weary - a Seasonal Tale
Winter Weary
A rhyme that sends a winters “chill’.
With snow, not knowing where to start.
But as he’s had some time to “chill”. 
A fellow with a...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnaround, poetry, snow,
Form: Rhyme



The Butterfly Princess
"Just living is not enough, said the butterfly fairy...one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower"  Hans Christian Anderson


    ...

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Categories: turnaround, butterfly, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Quintilla
Funny What a Difference 24 Hours Can Make Jl
It really is
As they say 

Ain't it funny that a difference

24 hour's in a person's life can make 

As 1 day and moment in time...

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Categories: turnaround, appreciation, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boomerang
I was forever losing things, and my laughing friends called me a klutz,
Like darker skies misplace buttery sun, when a severe storm develops.

I had once...

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Categories: turnaround, day, fantasy, friendship, fun,
Form: Couplet
Rhapsody In Autumn
Rhapsody in Autumn


Rhapsody of colors spread sunshine of rays have bled
Falling leaves stir ahead blanketing onto grounds bed

Crimson skies sighing amidst flocking birds’ south flying
Canvased...

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Categories: turnaround, autumn, beautiful, color,
Form: Couplet
The Eye the Sky
What's going to happen when we get fed 
up with technology? Technology is going 
to become our new reality. Today we spending 
our time on...

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© E Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnaround, society,
Form: Free verse
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnaround, adventure, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Massacre So Self Inflicted
A ripe body of Adolescence, nuzzled by beauty
on which hair is polished by crystals and sapphire
but lacks in the garrison of virtues and patriotism
becoming blind...

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Categories: turnaround, education, environment, planet, political,
Form: Epic
By the Numbers

Everybody love to say they’re number one,
but it takes two
to make beautiful music, 
so we’re told
Pitch perfect
That one favorite song two lovers have,
it never gets...

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Categories: turnaround, love, metaphor, romantic, word
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Wearisome Thuds and Music Thru the Wall
Wearisome Thuds and Music Thru the Wall

Brown, red, cinder walls, sounds from down the halls
Walls so thin the sounds echo off the walls

Woken by someone...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnaround, cat, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Number 22 In 1963
Number 22 in 1963


The prior season and many seasons past had been great for our school. However, the ‘62-’63 season was to prove disastrous for...

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Categories: turnaround, basketball, beauty, celebration, joy,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs