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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 seen.

She stands five feet, barely a statue-bold.
Appears quite warm with bundled arms of gold.

A pointed thumb at chest...

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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 its mark on him, distant from fellow peers.

~~[Van Gogh]~~
Impressed...

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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.

Mothers were clad in leaves.
Fruits were the greed of man.
I refuse to lie in state. The
sand grains...

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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.
— Quentin Crisp

ZEALOTS

The raging machine, storms of zigzagging arrows, fueled by each word...

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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 against shore,
Build dikes to sea to have shield affixed; 

And...

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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 ! Only keep children away !)

First Half

Step up
Both parties, now 
Take...

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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 layers,
Trust the virtuous man cometh and made no claim,
And let wander...

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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 smile...
I genuinely upturn the corners of my cheeks, 
every once in a...

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Categories: upturn, inspirational
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, relieve pain,
relive again
awaken my mind
so it bleeds 
flows outward
from within

one thought
one trickle
one moment of darkness
spilling across sheets of white
either way,...

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Categories: upturn, writing,
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
slightest upturn

whatta ya mean
we just ate in
the most expensive
place in town.

i can't help it 
i said...

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Categories: upturn,
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 bursting with dark fears,
Nature’s omens are crystal clear,
Horrendous and awful signs we see sense and repeatedly hear,
The blasphemous change will be here.

Mother nature’s...

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Categories: upturn, hope, life, nature, social,
Form: 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
Jumping into your arms
Kiss me now
Love rushes in my veins
Moved by your words
Nothing can separate us
Open hearts bond
Prove how...

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Categories: upturn, cute love, first love,
Form: Abecedarian
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 parents were faith healers, into prayer, 
For coughs, colds and constipation, 
And so...

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Categories: upturn, child abuse, computer, games,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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 good for me
I swallow my words to keep me sane
Chaning myself...

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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 you have,
inside.
Nothing sacred.
Secrets.
What's had,
confide.
Divulge 
what's missed.
No sanctum
clarified.
Transparency 
will be
verified.
One man
island,
rarified.
Forcing narrow,
they preach
the wide.
Actions
justified.
In turn,
hang
the spy.
Freedom
rescind.
It's all
a lie.
Clipped wings.
Our Eagle
no longer
can fly.
This guy
reveals truth.
Traitor label.
Media
to fry.
Populace 
blind,
rejected.
Lines fade.
Time comes
to choose
a side.
Apathy...

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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry