Best Twists Poems

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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Though the father of the heathen family is a snob, the mother does blather with others and tethers their cattle with withered leathers whether the weather is warm or not. Neither she loathes any others nor fails to be blithe at the advent of the...

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Life is full of twists
Nobody's will be perfect.
One has to go through the mists
To see what exists
In ones mind since we are our own architect.
Life is full of twists.
Choose a path I insist
Is that laughter I detect?
One has to go through the mists
To see what...

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the right notes,
rhythmically in place,
entice the held and unrefined
to become free...

matching the speed of attention
like a turned head facing the horizon,
pondering in solitude the multitudes,
feeling strong twisting waves
like love.

we have no control.

and the speed of that realm cannot compare,
the timing is beyond perfect,
unavoidably implicit,
becoming that...

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Life is hard and the times are harsh,
Here and there I run in a mad dash,
Not knowing where to head,
Nor where my life is by fate and fortune led.

I don't think that all is fine,
My head swirls as if spun by wine;
I know not east...

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Undermining base
Furtive steps during a year
Revealed false foundation
Hidden behind three fake smiles
Discovering covered lies...

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You turn an age it dawns on you
This twist you've taken, you must stop
You turn in a new direction
But by a twist of fate you flop!

If you turn that which is anchored
Then that turn becomes a twist
So now with this new twisted turn
You wonder of,...

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The possibilities are endless,
Everything is here.
I've always looked for my own bliss
While I blindly fought the fear
That's created in my own mind
While I shiver in the cold,
Waiting for someone to be kind
And save me fore I'm old.

But the possibilities are ending,
Everything is gone
That I used...

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At the tender age of twenty-three
    Carl took his leave of family

  He'd put his stock in friends, he said
    One year later, happily wed

  Life was easy, an ocean breeze
    His siblings, Carl...

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All of my regret will wash away somehow
But i still cannot forget the way i feel right now...

To all the hearts i broke
Knowingly and unknowningly
I never meant to hurt you
Neither did i know i could hurt like this.

All i did was in the name of...

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A street hawker in Port-Harcourt prays that God provides heavily congested traffic
A rich man in Lagos prays to avoid every congested traffic
All these people are children of God
After all, whether from the church or mosque, they both pray to the same God
At this point I...

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Most of the time, it seems
Plans change, plots twist
Dreams replace dreams
Hopes are swapped for hopes
Visions, wishes, desires
Metamorphose from one to another

We don’t always see it coming
But the change arrives on gentle
Whispers of moonlight and stardust
Winding through the paths of 
Lightening bolt promises, echoing
Wonder that fades...

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All those twists and turns
to this place now bring me,
amidst humps and bumps
on long, deserted highways.

Failures far too many to count,
success very few in between;
discouragements strewn all over
dragging, pulling me down under.

Yet mighty proud to surrender
though the spirit grows weary,
while faint lights out yonder
endlessly flicker,...

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She pulled back the
curtains and looked
out again
On the sun and the
moon and the stars
and the rain,
On the Winter and
Summer, the Autumn
and Spring
On chills and on
sunshine, and
whispers that sing,
And her face carried
hope, in its living
etched lines
With the reasons for
living that life so
defines,
Yet her eyes held
such reasons...

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