Best Turns Poems

As afternoon fades
and the shadows grow longer
daylight turns to dusk

As daytime slowly comes to end, 
and twilight spreads across the sky; 
the stars in heavens thus ascend.
As daytime slowly comes to end, 
the birds in trees the night to spend,
for in the darkness do not...

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"Blind Man Turns"



Rest easy in my lull, Love

Love 
is not the gentle goodnight, Love

in the beguiling
silence of Lost Lovers' Woods

It is the war we 
all wager

reflections 
in each other

We run from it
We run to it

The Labyrinth
we all are

striding fresh 
through greener than green grass

roads we...

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Love,
our most
precious gift,
helps our world turn
with stronger heartbeats.
Reach out to help dear friends;
stretch arms to embrace loved ones.
Greet strangers with that happy smile;
branch out to spend time with the lonesome.
Our love...the strength that turns the world around.

Our love...the strength that turns the world around.
But earth's...

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Today’s my birthday. I just turned three.
I wished and wished with all my might
for something small and cute for me -
a polka-dot umbrella, red and white.

Mommy has one bigger, but this one
fits right in my hand. I couldn’t wait
for rain to come, so I prayed...

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Topics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening to simply discuss the weather,
But now it's a litany of their ills when oldsters get together!

When a teen we bragged...

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*Like Caesar I wrote this in the 3rd person:) 

In third person he talks just like Caesar
Stuffing bagfuls of sweets in the freezer
Mumbles loud in his sleep
An appointment can’t keep
Often plucks at his brows with a tweezer.

With false tan he conceals his complexion
In shop windows...

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frozen river sleeps

man's desires go unbidden

winter turns her face

 

(January 21, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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When velvet turns to stone
When heart forgets the home
When lovebirds all have flown
When only hate is shown

When kindness turns to night
When blindness covers sight
When fear chases delight
When dreams have taken flight

When trust is torn in two
When old gives way to new
When dry replaces dew
When words...

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The waning days of summer
Are the saddest of the year,
Nature wears a somber face
As dying time draws near.

One by one the flowers fade
As life slows to a crawl,
Nature seems to sense its fate
When summer turns to fall.

How I wish it wasn’t so
For summer cannot last,
Fall...

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WHEN LOVE TURNS TO HATE

They were once in love, but love’s turned to hate,
and Steve no longer resides at their house.
His wife had an affair with his best mate,
who then lived with Steve’s son and his ex-spouse.
 
Their divorce was bitter, her lawyers won;
she got...

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july turns the page
choking on august's breathless
unbearable days...

humid-silenced chimes
sunlight's once-joy gasps, heat-drained
~ hallucinating




                June 23, 2020
      Summer Haiku Poetry Contest
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Karmic seeds once sown,
Thought, I’d reap fruits by me grown,
Spring came, soon was gone,

And turned to summer too soon,
And fruitless far my fortune! 

It dawned: I might sow,
But it pays if I well know:
My job’s just to sow,

Man no more can than propose,
Someone sits there...

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From dry wooden cracks
Seeps the elixir of life
Oozing out of its earthy shell
It crawls upon the outer walls
Of its once eternal prison

It flows and covers
Encompasses and drowns all
Preserving death within its clarity
All else seems insignificant and weak
Thus it perishes before the creeping nectar from within

The...

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soft skin like honey

    a gentle caress like wind

        ...and so it begins


soft lips meet soft lips

    kisses enflame the passion

        ... passion engulfs us


two...

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(As the World Turns)
It’s (Ryans Hope)
(The Doctors)
and staff at 
(General Hospital).
With their
(Love of Life) and 
(One Life to Live).
Will share their (Passions)
and show
(All My Children) 
(The Brighter Day).

In their 
(Search for Tomorrow),
at (The Edge of Night)
in (Dark Shadows).
(The Secret Storm)
hit (Sunset Beach)
(Port Charles)
(Texas)

With a (Loving)...

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