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Best Turnstile Poems

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Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: turnstile, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse



Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-
~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Categories: turnstile, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Serenade Me
Will you serenade me
  with your sweetest smile
Help me breeze through
  every workday turnstile

Will you dance with me too
  past all the...

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Categories: turnstile, cheer up, dance, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sounds of the City
The garbage men are the first to be heard,
beeping, bumping, throwing, thumping.
The work of their hands
leave nothing but empty cans 
scattered on the curb.

Children rise...

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Categories: turnstile, city, sound,
Form: Free verse
For Fun
Oh the grand old duke of York 
He had ten thousand men 
Wasn't that promiscuous
Even way back then .

They say in Salt lake city 
A...

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Categories: turnstile, funny,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Walker
I use a walker to get around
A device I need in order
To maintain my balance
So I walk slowly.

People rush by 
Not seeing me
Making me feel...

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Categories: turnstile, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnstile, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fat Bottomed Girls
I visit museums when in Paris
One tourist had got a huge ‘arris’
It took her quite a while
To squeeze through a turnstile
A diet plan could dis-embarrass


Inspired...

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Categories: turnstile, body,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Tic Tac Toe?
A hankerin’
an unscratched itch 
which one doesn’t wish to scratch for one
a need for heat and warmth
a turnstile dreamer ushers night to morn.

A what the...

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Categories: turnstile, adventure, allegory, angst, introspection,
Form: Free verse
If It Ain'T Broke
I don't know if you heard me right
If you're leaving, turn out the light
I think I made it pretty clear
How much I want you yo...

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© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: turnstile, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member From My Wicker Chair
The lovely view from my wicker chair
As crows caw spring is here
And wispy clouds parade on blue
Buzzards soar without fear

Scenes so peaceful express
Times filled with...

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Categories: turnstile, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Kaleidoscope Eyes
~

Picture yourself in a boat on a river
sailing along with the moon in your eyes
Following dreams found to make your heart quiver
with tangerine trees and...

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Categories: turnstile, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Oak Creek Canyon Echo
(Written at 3:00 am on a motorcycle between Sedona and Flagstaff)

I want to write dirty and convoluted,
connected and wet
And in the mess of my words
Feel...

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Categories: turnstile, death, life,
Form: Ballad
Wordsmith - a Tribute To Paloma With the Seeker
read her while sipping my morning cuppa
'tween news bytes and clock chimes-
I found myself in her words and wept
as I imagined honey dripping from her
lips...

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Categories: turnstile, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Brain Fart
a blank mind sets in &
though it may only be for a
flash of a second,
the words you are really trying
to muster,
dangle like a doughnut on...

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Categories: turnstile, life,
Form: Free verse

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