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Best Underpinning Poems


Premium Member Kind of Reasonable Explanation
Do angels walk amongst us, to be honest I really don’t know 
     My answers may seem rhetorical, for what life tends to throw 
    Could well be our imagination, reaching out tendrils with clasps
   ...

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Categories: underpinning, introspection, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Catching Butterflies
The black and orange dust
comes off on my fingers
revealing the fragile mesh
so easily crushed
therefore brave

I was troubled
the color was so loose
so removable to my hand
but even more at the
transparency beneath

Oh, don't go catching butterflies
until you are prepared to see
the underpinning delicate and clear
where there is...

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Categories: underpinning, butterfly, color, courage, crush,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Top Dressing
spring stitched the horizon
budding with French knots of red
			and jade and gold
the underpinning of branches
 began to disappear
as the surface danced 
with pointillism

kelly-green cuffed the lawn
daffodils were pocketed
in among the satin threads
		 of pine bark mulch
	temperatures fluctuated 
and though a layer of white snow 
would...

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Categories: underpinning, spring, daffodils,
Form: Free verse

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666 of Boxing Day
Around 29AD, a saviour claimed eternity as a light of future hope,
Recorded or foretold, accepted or rejected, he left a message that stretched,
Across the pages of all mankind, throughout all time, resurrected but neglected,
Simple message of loving each other, each human brother of different mothers,
His...

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Categories: underpinning, betrayal, boxing day , conflict,
Form:
Premium Member Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
  hominins humming mostly human song
  altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
  opportunistic, never staying long

  self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
  real representative intelligence
  modelling worlds beyond, longing for more joy than pain
  purpose...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underpinning, destiny, earth, hope, humanity,
Form: Verse
The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room

The April weather shifted high to low,
Exposing those early clout casters
To the concluding bite of winter;
Footsteps full of foreboding
Trudge their last legs up the inclined driveway
To the Doctor’s old house.
A hotchpotch of chairs and wooden benches
Cling to the borders of the waiting room
A...

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Categories: underpinning, health, humorous, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Resignation
When you’re sucker-punched with frustration	
			and can’t find a cause for elation,
			when you’re unsuccessful
			and life’s super stressful,
			you surely will feel perturbation.

			When you face severe provocation
			and fear that there’s no mitigation
			for hard knocks life’s sending;
			you’re breaking, not bending.
			You seek means of self-preservation.

			You may sometimes feel the temptation
			to...

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Categories: underpinning, life, prayer, stress,
Form: Limerick
Complicated
Answers left more questions,
But lately I'm all wrong,
Continuing suggestions,
Daydreams to our song,
Even though you're above,
Forgiveness I have given,
Gripping for your love,
Held inside your prison,
Intellect enhanced,
Jerking our regret,
Kept the final chance,
Lying in neglect,
Mainly intoxicated,
Nonsense as a gift,
Obscenely complicated,
Prayers at sea, adrift,
Quiet screams so loud,
Reversed into beginning,
Shameful...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underpinning, addiction, confusion, death, depression,
Form: Abecedarian
Mind's Dark Sphere
As twilight's shadows light does fade
Dark machinations interstices invade
In deep crevasses, insecurities cascade
In dark corners, fears, doubts parade
Day's, blithe rhythms subconscious channels evade
Night's diabolical inventions the deep recesses pervade
My twittering eyes cannot the bleary apparitions dissuade
As mind's candle flickers, o'er frontal lobes dark minions escalade
As...

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Categories: underpinning, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside This Cave
Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivations,
something akin to a Zephyr wind
has me returning to old foundations.

Cornerstones, above the...

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Categories: underpinning, allusion, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sub Life Interims End Doubts of Our Real Being
I seem to of late to live between an inner life of double doubt and life aberrant that relates to a coincintude that female hate is alive and well, as it subjigates its tentacles around its prey prematured by all of their  sociofear/control/princecharmang/sleepingbeauty differentials...

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Categories: underpinning, anxiety, children, family, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coma Conversation: I Am In Your Computer
C:
  I journeyed long upon the way, e-mailed through your router
  hello "Henry", good to greet, I am in your computer
  I am between him and her, so I am gender neuter

  I am ten years landing along your northern equinox
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underpinning, computer, creation, hello, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Cat's Embassy - Fragments of the Too Long Thing
I’ve died many times
And not been reborn.
Nine lives were mine; 
Now two.  Or three.  
Or one; 
This one, the last.
I am the cat,
But that’s not the answer.

I am for you to tell.

My kind did not evolve
Over long course, as yours, 

  ...

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Categories: underpinning, cat, journey, mythology, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come As You Are
Space the universal medium, in which everything grows 
       Where it comes from, is postulation, nobody really knows 
            Bursting with cosmic energy, has no interaction with light...

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Categories: underpinning, allegory, life, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Plant the Seeds For New Beginnings
The times they are a changin
a wake up nature’s stagin

With temperatures a risin
its really no surprise then

This change is heatin up
volcanos soon to erupt

ice will melt much more
as oceans tsunami shores

Trees up root from ground
devastation all around!


The times they are a changin
as we try to...

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© Laura Hay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underpinning, nature,
Form: Couplet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry