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Happen Upon Poems - Poems about Happen Upon

For Feeling Never Appealing

...hard to read each pun
which will happen upon us
once upon a time

when he was wishing
while line on water swishing
he had been fishing

while at Westminster
really had been sinister
was suc...
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Categories: happen upon, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberLIGHT AND DARKNESS

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It’s wonderful when you have a thought in your head
that you’re all set to put into a poem or a letter…
and then you happen upon a person, 
like Marianne Williamson…who has already said it bette...
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Categories: happen upon, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberI Wandered Lonely As a Leaf That Falls

...Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I heard a far bird's calls
Magic I'd mis...
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Categories: happen upon, appreciation, autumn, beauty, dance,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMy Dog's Dreaded Foe

...He sits and scratches 
	With endless scratching
They cover him in patches
	Hope they aren’t catching

He struggles with them
	Longing to destroy their eggs
They darken and condemn
	Creeping a...
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Categories: happen upon, dog, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRoses Red

... 
of all the flowers
it is the rose that I love best
and the most beautiful to me 
is the color red
and in my journals red roses
I have pressed
and in my last gasp, my dears
let m...
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Categories: happen upon, flower,
Form: Verse



Premium MemberNymphs At Play

...It is not easy to happen upon them,
Pure nymphs in their natural beauty.
It happened to me only once when
I was resting beneath a red sunset maple, 
As the summer hear began to soar.

A stone t...
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Categories: happen upon, dance, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse

Unleash

..."Bring forth the witch! Bind her to the stake!
It has been my wish, to trample evil for God's sake."
Teztelian verbalism, another veiled devil's play,
Actors in cassocks, in God's name harvesting ...
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Categories: happen upon, conflict, earth,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberA Couple In White

...On a remote part of the beach we walk as the sun was bowing to the night
we happened upon a young couple having their picture taken…
A young couple dressed in white.

We smiled as we held each ot...
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Categories: happen upon, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGentle Nature

...Soft light of sunlight mists across the smoky gray
Of the blue ridges where colors of emerald pine
Surface in the distance, creating a brilliant waltz
Of cloudless dreams which signal to my spirit...
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Categories: happen upon, feelings, flower, muse, nature,
Form: Free verse

Mere Minutes

...in full coat of red
he postures  
shakin'  
his feathers
in full view  
 
there's an air about the evening  
moon braising the horizon  
eyes burning with lust  
 
he listen clo...
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Categories: happen upon, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGala Stewart -You Were My First Love But I Never Told Ya

..."Oftentimes, sometimes I think of you. I drive by the street where you used to live. I don't know now if you're alive or not. Blessings to you I give. I don't  know if you're married or a widow. All ...
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Categories: happen upon, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Narrative

A Walk In the Woods

..."Walking trough the woods,
I let my mind wander all I could

Hoping the shackles of a busy world will fall away, 
To lighten my step when this burden gives way

To allow the beauty of the fores...
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Categories: happen upon, blessing, hope, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIllustrations

...sounds
 of pity 
    surface
as
moods ripple
&epitaphs
      happen upon
      the legacies
of life..
..
questions flee
in a mask
of be
belief
as issues
melt away
      as shadows
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Categories: happen upon, inspirational, poems,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberA Long Poem From a Brief Encounter

...I saw him before I saw her…(I believe she was holding the door.)
There was a far away look in his eyes as he shuffled his feet on the floor.

I felt a twinge of sorrow for him as he slowly labored...
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Categories: happen upon, age, love,
Form: Verse

Why Old Doll Faces Seem So Creepy

...If you happen upon a stack of photos taken in Victorian times,
Look carefully for a post-mortem picture – they command a premium price.
Technically, everyone in those photos is dead – today
But if...
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Categories: happen upon, angst, bereavement, family,
Form: Rhyme

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