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Forward Looking Poems - Poems about Forward Looking

Winters Reprieve
...A winter winds chill seeps in, No matter the defenses. Shiver and shake cold penetrates deep down to the bone. That season, so long in duration, seems forever, to come to an end. Forwa......

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Categories: forward looking, perspective, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's Not Byron's Fault, Anyway
...Byron didn't wait for me. Across the hall Becky tried not to look. Chalk was everywhere. Knuckles was already suspended. Trailing the varsity jackets I Oscillated between chic and irreverent. S......

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Categories: forward looking, school,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member We Call Them Angels
...Generally speaking, we were not designed for ba......

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Categories: forward looking, angel, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Magnolia Tree
...Yesterday, A huge magnolia tree on the corner Burst out in magnificent large white blossoms, [temperamental she is] but I think she bloomed This year to remind us that optimism is in the air-......

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Categories: forward looking, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member December 5th 2020
... December 5th 2020 By: Miracle Man Today, I sit, drowning in memories of elapsed time. Time spent in other places, reviewing vague and unnamed faces. Remembering times when I was......

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Categories: forward looking, age, life,
Form: Blank verse



Robert Burns Translation: To a Mouse
...To a Mouse by Robert Burns translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast, Why’s such panic in your breast? Why dash away, so quick, so rash......

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Categories: forward looking, animal, farm, home, house,
Form: Verse
Premium Member After the Genocide
...For years, the ominous signs were palpable The deep fraternal mistrust festered and discernable Propagated by colonial masters to divide and make Rwanda malleable And left lingering became monstro......

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Categories: forward looking, abuse, anger, conflict, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lib's a Fib
...I'd like to write a line or two About Woman Lib In this age of women's rights I feel that lib's a fib "Equal Rights for Women!" I agree with that, for sure But twentieth-century women want Equ......

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Categories: forward looking, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Exodus a Providential Pilgrimage Partb
...I remember your invitation the welcome of your arms into your kingdom of priests the unexpected in a purpose-filled life the sheer wonder ......

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Categories: forward looking, christian, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Pathway
...Is there a direction to the universe, without the polar caps The equator gone as space expands, looking forward—looking back Does today become tomorrow, as tomorrow self destructs A......

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Categories: forward looking, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Stay
...As I sat on the ledge looking up to the sky I asked my Father the W's The when's, the what's, the where's, the why's So many places in this world to see So many places I'd rather be Bland, sta......

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Categories: forward looking, change, farewell, goodbye, leaving,
Form: Narrative
The Christian Race
...Paul said to press on forward Towards the heavenly prize For if we run the Christian race We will come to realize That in spite of the prisons in our lives Keeping us in mental and physical chai......

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Categories: forward looking, christian, destiny, encouraging, faith,
Form: Carpe Diem
Flight Without Wings
...The ragged precipice surmounted, he stands, leaning forward, looking down into nature's yawning rictus— pondering flight without wings. Restlessness in being, he’s come unhinged in time whose......

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Categories: forward looking, flying, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living In the Now
...Looking forward, looking back Wondering about the future Remembering the past Many experiences sent to teach Many more yet to explore All that really matters is the present This is all that......

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Categories: forward looking, appreciation, self,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Regrets and Sunsets
...From where he sits presently, he is convinced that the choices he made, the paths he took, and the roads not taken were far and away, being guided by supernatural hands. That over a 50 year period......

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Categories: forward looking, childhood, courage, god, poverty,
Form: Light Verse

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