Counterclockwise Poems

Premium MemberDog Chases Tail

...He whirred around for quite some time
hounding his stubby runt tail
copious spittle, a flying trail
coating the walls with sticky slime;
before stopping, panting a spell
then restarting counterc...
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Categories: counterclockwise, animal, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDreams

...A picture perfect moment but at a stand still
You can see and even feel a touch that isn't real
Your thoughts and actions are well played out
Waking up and remembering what it's all about
Dreamin...
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Categories: counterclockwise, dream,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Membercounterclockwise breeze

...
                                        counterclockwise breeze
the fringe of Fall                          inside-out
                                             static headspace
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Categories: counterclockwise, autumn, silence, spring,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberA Masked Requiem for a Virulent Era

...A cold berating 
light-erasing rope
survives
relentless
entropy
(another year ends
 another variant contends)

Desolate debris in 
empty
erroneous caves
swallow 
blank pages
    submerge...
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Categories: counterclockwise, dark, society, surreal, word
Form: Free verse

When urinating into the toilet bowl

...When urinating into the toilet bowl...

yours truly (me) could not help but notice
while living social at various residences  
within Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
the following described phen...
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Categories: counterclockwise, 12th grade, crazy, house,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSacred Gratitude

...Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and u...
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Categories: counterclockwise, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

The Widdershins

...Leftward went his stride, counter to the sun he strode.
They said he was magicked hence by the fairies
or was a mechanical manikin
witched up from a pot of spells.

Old widdershins had a stove p...
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Categories: counterclockwise, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShelah the Quilting Faerie

...Shelah is an autumn fairy who loves pumpkins, squash, and maize.
She lives in the best oak tree in Semi-Forgotten Forest.
Old lady down the road makes quilts, so she snags material for free.
So ma...
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Categories: counterclockwise, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberWhere the Noreaster Flies

...WHERE THE NOR’EASTER FLIES

what is the weather, dear.
oh my! where we last sailed
the Nor’easter flies.

oh my, i’m blown over
my darling, that’s clear.
forgot you’re docked over there.

i...
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Categories: counterclockwise, travel, weather,
Form: Light Verse

Kind of a Customized Story

...Copy…paste
Counterclockwise time.
And then slowly it all merged
to an old worn-out page.

I smile too little, I think, now a day
Learning a lot of difficult definitions, lately
Kind of a custo...
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Categories: counterclockwise, age,
Form: Free verse

Nerdy Confessions

...Hey babe, I have a confession to make. 

When you and I first met, a perfectly inelastic collision must have happened,
Because now all I can do 
is to stay by your side. 

When you and  I first...
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Categories: counterclockwise, feelings, i love you,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSpringtime Romance

...wisteria bines
wrap around a rustic fence -
counterclockwise cling
     a robin weaves through raceme
     its wee pretty wings giddy

4/10/2019

bines - a twining stem

raceme (ra...
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Categories: counterclockwise, bird, flower,
Form: Tanka

The Rider

...I enter in a large white room
high is the ceiling 
straight are the walls 
round are the corners
door lies across on the other side

in the center I see
a large black hat
square in shape
dro...
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Categories: counterclockwise, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Psycho Muse

...looking up
at the down
spout shower head
reaching
as if trying
to take a selfie
but really
just adjusting
the water's flow

and so
a stream erodes
two peaks as it leaks
down from thighs
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Categories: counterclockwise, muse,
Form: Shape

Trumps Feeble Limp Rox Zilch State of Emergency

...Trumps Feeble, Limp, Rox... Zilch State Of Emergency

H.G. Wells..., ah...now there
without dark shadow of a doubt,
in my (myopic brown) eyes,
a prolific writer hooked hood accessorize
the Engl...
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Categories: counterclockwise, abuse, america, anti bullying,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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