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Cusps Poems - Poems about Cusps

From the Clarinet

...Late November,
and lonely resonance of harmattan
salutes this solitude.
A weaverbird's contralto, in one
gale-sweep, lays bare the lower balustrade
of a maisonette,
and the romance of the last ...
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Categories: cusps, life, music, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Anuruedoahu

...In Biafra, when we drank from the tilting
cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle
of cassava,
the sun scorched like hell.

Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war, like worldly
cowrie, stagnant...
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Categories: cusps, eulogy, nostalgia,
Form: Ode



Bread Crumbs

...Feigned cusps of nothingness,
brass knobs holding the fireside,
life's amazement,
like an infant's emotion.
We should be confined to ourselves
too many others opine,
life becomes complicated en...
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Categories: cusps, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member''NFC'' Our Natural State

...If age is a constant then daydreams and nightmares 
will cease to exist when the best of life is achieved
as maturity stabilizes at a level of immaturity favors
the innocence in confidence-mired i...
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Categories: cusps, imagery, poetry, visionary,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Future Self

... “looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was
I’m different now, though not without flaws
Each crest becomes a trough, as we move on
God slowly steers soul towards a new dawn” Unseeking Se...
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Categories: cusps, muse,
Form: Free verse



COLOURFUL LAMENT

...COLOURFUL LAMENT

I combed cool waters of your 
baby blue crystalline Jewel as you 
waded waterfall waves washing 
my stellar rainbow rays 
Arching it melted into the warm 
womb of transducing...
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Categories: cusps, allegory, blue, color, deep,
Form: Free verse

White Witch

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                 Krokus gets sweatered in chiffon, 
                      in shiverlry, white knighted,
                   like royalty, a bestowed visage
                    in heir appeara...
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Categories: cusps, art,
Form: Free verse

Adina Augusta Purcell

...Can words truly capture the essence of the lady on the hill
Whose womb bore eight but yet-
Has mothered countless others?
Whose hands dug deep to till the soil; to stretch outwards to care, to sha...
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Categories: cusps, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Screaming Into the Void

...I stand on the precipice 
the edge of nowhere, nothing 
screaming 

Screaming into the void 
all that I am and, all that I will be 
or ever was 

I am at the edge of the earth 
the rim of re...
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Categories: cusps, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse

But Girls Might Err

...hey, mind, think back and dwell on this …
our decades-old, warm reminisce
of heady nights when dating Kris,
sweet buxom, avid, bob-haired miss
who learned with us to bill and kiss,
and lift youn...
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Categories: cusps, humor, lost love, remember,
Form: Monorhyme

Potestades Virgo Case

...only things grown in the ground remain
but mismatched without the hand of man
see that they dodge beautiful
their languishing longitudinal vegetable bodies
never suffer fracture the stems with...
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Categories: cusps, analogy, future,
Form: Free verse

Man-Made, Yet a Human Brain Was Cooked Into Stygian-Hued Glass By Spilling Lava In 79ad

...A curve of sky
in a corner cusps a smooth,
thick dusting 

of carrot-mauve hues 
tonight. Drapes over heather
trees 

whose arms 
and hands bend with this drowsy sky
as it starts

to fall...
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Categories: cusps, allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberStellar Composure

...Show me a burning arrow from your quiver of love

Avail me fire and kindness set joined earth ablaze

Grant me only this one wish for the hotbed of passion

In fletching’s path we feel think re...
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Categories: cusps, bridal shower,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberIntimate Script

...The boudoir joins us in absorbing feeling

a Goddess right next to me under cover

breathless and inspiring we share the muse

of all muses as we preside over wedlock

hands tied around leath...
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Categories: cusps, best friend,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBalance

...tear drop mountain
 
weeps floodgates cusps water fall -

lizard licks sun rays


11th November 2020...
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Categories: cusps, drink,
Form: Haiku

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