Gravity Poems

Brevity

though long loftier are visited much 
like space empty needed seeing some stars
your wisdom scales twice thrice at least as such
brings peace ends bloody loud proud wicked wars

less more deeply thought seals the sentence fought
upfront counting costs gains what matters most
asides any passions which wrath has wrought
humbly speaking what all others would boast
 
exceptions abound
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Categories: gravity, absence, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Sonnet

Within the Dirt, Stars Form

Dusting the floor,
my broom wrestles
with the cobwebs lingering
from yesterday's sales,
all around the ceramics
the threads poke
in all directions,
I kick the dustpan 
and the dirt crystalizes 
in midair,

for a moment, it was beautiful. 

Sirius, bright as always but
Canopus, closely behind. 

The vacant moment 
stabilizes,
attuning gravity 
for the slightest
second.

The image painted its portrait 
onto the walls just as
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Categories: gravity, appreciation, art, beauty, imagery,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThe Gravity of Time

I feel a sadness in my soul
    flowing like a stream
across the fallen remnants of passing days
that leads to a reservoir of lost sunsets
lying on the edge of my heart's misty moors
   in the deep valley of my memory
Where shadows float above the horizon
    dressed in yesterday's
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Categories: gravity, age, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt Lifts, Defies Gravity

It Lifts, Defies Gravity 

That great curving line
made of countless droplets
in shades of aquamarine
to showers of foaming white

it creates an opening
a cave where light can spin
then plummets down again
its passion has been spent

rolling gently to the shore
tumbling sand and shells
small remnant lives
then going back for more.
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Categories: gravity, light,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Gravity of Whom and When

I learned to smile with grit in my teeth,
as I watched the waves, come in, and go out. 
They made a hollow in the sand,
left behind when the tide rushed out. 
For whom is this hole?

I dip in the hole to swim, treading water,
kicking just enough, to keep
my nose and head, 
just above the water,
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Categories: gravity, beach,
Form: Free verse


The Archaeology of Gravity

Love, he says, sounds like a door
closing softly in a room built for your name—
that measured click holding its breath,
the air swelling in its pause,
as if the walls themselves leaned in
to listen for what would not come.

Later, he becomes a man
rewriting himself in a language
he can almost hear but never speak—
his phone dim on the
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Categories: gravity, cute love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwhen i fell for you

when i fell for you
i didn't take to heart
laws of gravity
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Categories: gravity, heart, hurt, love,
Form: Senryu

Cricketing Nirvanas and Nadirs

“Heady heights..bright neon lights..giddy delights

Arsonists torching the Indian empire

Reputations scorching..awash with brilliant whites

Gilded generation ire… spoils soiled in an oily quagmire

Sailing the conquest crest..Kiwi veneration..scaling Test Everest

Perturbed…wondrous walloping to disturbed lolloping..absurdly dire

Otherworldly umami of the Barmy Army tsunami

Marauding sneers trumpet.. foolish career nadirs..retire

Ghoulish gravity..devoured by a glutinous abyss

Bazball belter depravity..sensationally soured bucolic bliss 

Hoodwinking..hasten Black
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Categories: gravity, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Sheer Gravity of Uncertainty

When poised precariously,
balanced on the edge of a precipice,
choice can’t wait for clarity.
For the mass of uncertainty,
tips the balance just enough 
to topple you off the cliff 
into the valley below.

The sheers gravity of choice,
is unrelenting and absolute,
in the face of uncertainty.
You're blindfolded by fear, 
bent over, to leer, too long,
into the valley below.

Uncertainty and
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Categories: gravity, desire, destiny, emotions,
Form: Free verse

A Certain Gravity

He cups the weight of her small breasts,
cradles them with reverential hands,
weighs the balance of gravity,
the pressure of pleasure.

He wonders about this passion
for the petite and elfin,
for the Hellenic perfection of rose and plum,
then recalls his mother,
the push of her tenderness
as she held his face in both her palms
as if he were the substance of
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Categories: gravity, poetry,
Form: Free verse

GRAVITY

From gravities greed, I scream
From rivers of reality, I fly!
The city is in flux
The day dies at horizon's edge!
All I see is creation n gravities seams
The birth of a neutron star.
The smoldering ash of a cigar 
Dreamscapes and moonquakes!
From reality, I run; gravity needs
In rivers, I drift as the city is in flames.
A day flies
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Categories: gravity, art, creation, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGravity

Gravity pulled rain from swollen clouds
Gravity pulled down a murky shroud 

Gravity pulled down the curtain of lies
Gravity pulled tears from my eyes

Gravity pulled hope into the gutter
Gravity snuffed the flame’s last shudder

Gravity crushed what I believed
Gravity left me lost and deceived

Gravity held me to the floor
Gravity vilely whispered no more

Gravity silenced every sound
Gravity left
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Categories: gravity, addiction, betrayal, depression, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGravity Between Us

Gravity between us
   Is forever pulling;
Where the one lover goes -
   The other tags along

For since the day we met -
   The universe implied
That my heart and your heart
   Were set to collide.

Whatever happens -
   The orbit dictates
We go and our hands
   Are
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Categories: gravity, love, planet, universe,
Form: Rhyme

I Am The Centre Of The Universe

I give myself a staunch,
I even have my lunch,
I don't give a hunch,
But I give myself a munch,
I don't want to throw myself a punch,
I didn't resemble as such,
I didn't pronounce that much,
I give away to luck,
I found myself a prick,
I don't get myself sick,
I didn't know there was such a prank,
I want to be
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Categories: gravity, 12th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

Premium MemberHumanity - Gravity - Newton's Law

Gravity makes things go down,
to the ground like a funny clown.
Missing the trash can,
now on the floor plan.
Gravity will always be around.
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Categories: gravity, earth, giggle, life, smile,
Form: Limerick

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