Best Turner Poems

Almost everyday
In the cool shade of poetry
I would approach the old tree
That in a lively blossom 
Some of which, deep red and blue
Would cast shadow on my rice and bread
Would shake my chromosome, a little, 
In my pages so brittle now

The fragrance and forms I...

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Rampage rumbling water roars dig the shores
Heavy hard they grapple trees and humans
Tumbling turner tides glide no one adore
Frightened humans, they run! Run and run fast!
As they desire to survive ever more
From angry nimbus clouds darkening span
To merry-go-round waves muddy wet skirt
Gnawing so hungry to...

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A most charming poet named Dan
Writes poems whenever he can
He is sixty today
So I’m writing to say
Happy birthday from your friend Jan 

xxxxxxx

An unfortunate poet named Daniel
His huge ears made him look like a spaniel
They dangled down so low
Past his knees to his toe
The plastic...

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Have you ever had one of those days 
On the wrong side of the bed, bad days 
When everything right went wrong 

Cause the ding had lost it's dong 
Ouch, Mr. Sun came peeking in 
Up from bed and banged your shin 
Leaky, full toilet...

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Of famous sonnets I’ve unwrapped so far,
Including Shakespeare’s brilliance, I’ll contend,
None close compare as near one superstar,
Entitled “Daniel Turner - Cherished Friend”;
Aligned in gentle reassuring tone,
That shares with passion wisdom learned in time;
A wellness check on friends who feel alone,
Reminding patience renders life sublime;
When needed...

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The moon was peeking through the naked trees
The breeze that blew that day had gone to bed
A lonely nightingale perched overhead
Harassed the silence with his sad reprise

The creaking porch swing's old familiar tune
No fitting lyrics could I ever write
To my sweet love on this warm...

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This is presented in a series of three sonnets in a collaboration
between Daniel Turner and Lin Lane. 
They are based on the original sonnet of Daniel's "Night Angel."
Thank you, Danny, for the inspiration and for allowing me to 
give poetic voice to your Night Angel.


In...

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Infinite days still linger
in country lane of heavenly delight,
where we tasted the freshness of life
or was it all, just a game?
It seemed so perfect there
before infancy taken
alas to masquerade in a strange world
a culture godforsaken.
Yet!  One can hope the carousel
of a diligent life still...

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Visual poetry
  in abstractions
sumptuous
iridescent
   images of natural
elements
of light,of places

expressive
individual genius
of the spectacular
in
close observation
of the wildest moods
&rage
 of the elements

sequence of the dramatic
interludes
of atmosphere
tranquil
yet
evoking the natural
light

in a manner
of old& novel
with anticipation
of the
abstraction

to later
        come...

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Glenn Turner and Randall "Randy" Thompson were the best police officer and volunteer firefighter in all of Cobb County, Georgia, until March 1995 (WWF Monday Night Raw and WWF Wrestle-Mania XI) and January 2001 (Raw Is War, WWF SmackDown!, and the WWF Royal Rumble) when...

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Lost in a vacuum of darkness 
Hearing beats of a distant drum
A marshaling cadence that harkened 
Together we'll overcome 

Advancing I paused to listen 
The sonorous pounding increased 
It's volume and rhythm did hasten 
My lonely anxiety had ceased

I knew nothing now could stop me
Adrenaline...

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I'm so tired of hearing that old cliche' ~
"It's water under the bridge," let it go.
Those words are never the right thing to say
when I'm already feeling kinda low

What if water under the bridge dries up
and can't carry my mistakes out to sea?
To forgiveness should...

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Lost in a vacuum of darkness 
Hearing beats of a distant drum
A marshaling cadence that harkened 
Together we'll overcome 

Advancing I paused to listen 
The sonorous pounding increased 
It's volume and rhythm did hasten 
My lonely anxiety had ceased

I knew nothing now could stop me
Adrenaline...

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I am stuck in an elevator with Cher, Tina Turner, Bette Midler,
Pink, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga when
Liza Minnelli drops in from a tiny opening in the roof.
We all scream “LIZA!” and then we whip out our instruments.

To be fair, I do not...

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the storm arrived before we left
but with shelter in our reach
we stopped to watch the shifting sands
sidewind across the beach.

with turbulent, violent, brush-like strokes
of sky and sea and grey,
the rain and mist obscured our views
of what was morecambe bay.

despite the cold, wet monochrome
we turned our...

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