Best Updrafts Poems

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Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the rest.

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Written: November 06, 2023
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A swarm of herring gulls amassed
Nexus Nautilus nabbed by zealous winds,
whitening the black soil
we ho......

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...Dandelions – Visual 1


Stems rooted as future generations silently drift
Dancing in the awakening of hope’s enlightening sunrise
Buoyed upon the updrafts of fate and synchronicity.



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...Ah, drifting leisurely inside the cloud, 
Watching hot sun’s rays glance across the nose 
of the winged drone, stealthily slipping proud, 
I drifted so peacefully through the floes. 
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...Soaring above the bushfire's flames,
astounded crows, blacker than charred
tree trunks, flap spectral wings.

Numb with loss, no caws drone out.
Wind rushes in updrafts from
the smoky heat: to rise a......

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...Dream Keys
      by Odin Roark

A NY mantra
Rent the rentable
Move the movable
Key the keyable

Apartments

Four-wall-guardian of yesterday’s youth
Vacuous cellmates of old age loneliness
All part of......

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...Today,
there are no rubber ducks
or mother's marigold skirts
to hide behind
as we once did.

In their place,
lurking dark and hoary,
a bathtub mist
updrafts thick with loose spores,
and mil......

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...Haiku With Variations (Both Sonnet & Free Verse)

Haiku Number 2

hail rides air updrafts
raindrops crater planet's skin
your breath’s clouds, fall skies

May 12, 2016


Mother of a Winter......

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...Ecology, Humanity, Me, & Tea


A fox at the altar.
Bee nests to seek before light.
A rabbit where the fox’d trot.
(Foxes have only ever trot. Perhaps fast, or nimbly, or slow - they do n......

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...Ah, drifting leisurely inside the cloud, 
Watching hot sun’s rays glance across the nose 
of the winged drone, stealthily slipping proud, 
I drifted so peacefully through the floes. 
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...I am asleep
I dream
I am flying

I am the sky
outside myself
above streets and buildings

Time and place
do not exist
I am moonlight
staring back at the sun

Updrafts of light
echoes off distant plat......

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...HYPERGRAPHIA -- "STARECASES"

twisted as wrought iron spiraling down
surveying top gears stark dark regalia 
holdhigh on tight here comes another
maniacal express spinning 
HYPERGRA......

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...Magnificent strength
Gliding on natures updrafts
Surveying the land

Nathan Bane Leccese
© All Rights Reserved 05/22/2009......

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...Every now and then
life creates a gem of a human being,
a gem of genuineness
a body of truth, sincerity
written into sublime poetry.
And like all that is good
upon this planet, a situation
that creat......

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...For Jeffers: On seeing Tor House and Hawk Tower
                   For the first time

The Tor stones have grown wistful 
Through time and absence since 
Your verses filled the house with
Creat......

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