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Best Upturn Poems


Premium Member A Giving Tree
...A course-correction knife was plunged too late.
A smile was still, upon her lips, that date.

Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green.
Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are see......

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Categories: upturn, imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Van Gogh
...Decades of a formula that only he knew about it and drew,
Cascades of his artwork came to a head in his last years,
Glissades of a swan in a lake that only a handful had seen,
Tirades made......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upturn, art, character, mental illness,
Form: Lento
Forgetting
...What was about this face ?
Between mirage and actuality ?
A fireball was coming towards you.
You upturn the underside, 
wanted to taste the blood
and get argasm.
The statues were posing nude.

Mother......

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Categories: upturn, art,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Zealots
...Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
— ......

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Categories: upturn, angst,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Translation of Dante's Hell Canto Xv
...Now we along one of hard rims are brought;
And a thin spray on the  brook is fixed, 
So shield to rims and water is begot.

As Flemings, Cadsand and Bruges bewixt,
Fearing the high waves pouncing aga......

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Categories: upturn, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Rugby Scrum Dance For Divorced and Disabused Wedding Guests
...Rugby SCRUM* DANCE for Divorced and Dis-abused Wedding Guests

(Packs made up of eight « players » (see note below) may be formed indifferently : either segregate the sexes or mix them up. No sweat !......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upturn, dance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Creators Caretakers
...Soft, simple wind go on a path that is made clear,
Freshly lays anew for each breath that one appear,
The subtle ripple spreads on a course that favors,
Fills open space and need to flow o'er ......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upturn, change, character, creation, imagery,
Form: Pastoral
Soul-Contrast!
...I will bleed folks, I will bleed... 
Blood doesn't always have to equate pain... 
It could mirror the relief that courses through; 
pregnant clouds after the rain... 

I will smile folks, I will......

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Categories: upturn, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Canalopes
...we just ate
i didn't like it
most of it 
was in the 
carry out box.

well, are we 
hungry again
i said after about
15 miniutes of
riding?

he did the side
squint and his
lips snuck the
......

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Categories: upturn,
Form: Free verse
Scribbled Thoughts
...i stare at the walls
blank mind
and paper
laugh back

has the ink run dry
from pen, or thoughts
dried from mind?

i know the motion
upturn wrist
press firmly...
cut deep
bleed free

feel pain, reliev......

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Categories: upturn, writing,
Form: Free verse
Earth Hour 2012
...By: Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)(written 29th march 2012)

(UNITING PEOPLE TO PROTECT THE PLANET)
(8.30 pm Saturday 31st march 2012)
The portent prophecy is teeming and burst......

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Categories: upturn, hope, life, nature, social,
Form: Rhyme
The Tide
...They thought i was disabled by choice, not by veracious right, 
They thought, ‘cos i objected to medicine’s lady, 
But my parents were both a malady, 
To medicine’s elegance and height. 

My par......

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Categories: upturn, child abuse, computer, games,
Form: Tail-rhyme
In His Eyes
...Amongst the faces, he shines
Before you, I melt
Can you really do it?
Determined to please
Engulfed in your eyes
Forever together
Giddy till next time
Happened to pick me
Involved to the end
......

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Categories: upturn, cute love, first love,
Form: Abecedarian
Simple Sam
...I'm simply Sam, the simple stalker
Popping sweet tarts like a drug addict pops their pills
I worry too much and often think too into things
I know what's right for you, but have no idea what's goo......

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Categories: upturn, emo, high school, hope,
Form: Free verse
Land of the Free, Home of the Enslaved
...Hive mind 
behind.
Recognize 
the sign.
A different train
to align.
Travel alone.
Taking time.
Beware,
riptide.
Changing clime.
Soon,
hunters blind,
won't hide,
what they want.
What yo......

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upturn, america, change, society,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things