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Improbably Poems - Poems about Improbably


A Conflict in Nature
...Up here, where the lone trees grow, the air is clear and the time is now. Up here, where the lone trees grow, my emotions alternate between what I see and what I know. The only easy way into th......

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Categories: improbably, world war ii,
Form: Free verse
Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Fair Game by Michael R. Burch At the Tennessee State Fair, the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables with mocking button eyes, knowing the p......

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Categories: improbably, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Riding Sixties Shotgun
...I was in the shotgun seat in 1960 Lansing Michigan headed straight as a harddrive through ghettoizing "Negra Section" hunting down our commercial whitebread heavenly ThriftyAcres Wanna be a ......

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Categories: improbably, beauty, community, culture, extended
Form: Political Verse
Poems About Pool Sharks
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Shark by Michael R. Burch They are all unknowable, these rough pale men— haunting dim pool rooms like shadows, propped up on bar stools like scarecrows, nodding and......

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Categories: improbably, games, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Perfect Imperfect
...Framed blemish. Heavy as a tumor. Solid as surrender. Dig into epidermis. Uproot the moment. Unclean kernel. Hard, cold reflection. Show me pretty. Clogged pores. Yellow teeth. Rheumy eye......

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Categories: improbably, beautiful, beauty, body, hurt,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Choosing Happiness
...Tonight I heard a terminally cancered yet not cancelled singer songwriter say "I can't wait for life to not be hard before choosing to be happy." She spoke well from her own experience and I......

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Categories: improbably, fear, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Climbing Trees
...We went to climb trees in the jungle gyms of green apple orchards, bare legs dangled toes dipped into shady pools of sky. Secret girlfriends climbed barefooted onto impossibly roomy branches, ......

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Categories: improbably, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku -- Streams
...Streams: It's so improbably wonderful that the trickle of a lazy stream can eventually join the chorus of a powerful ocean. ocean's lions roar above mighty sea birds soar stream......

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Categories: improbably, bird, ocean, power, sound,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Stillbirth of a Sonnet
...There have been moments in my life enjoyed more for the forest than the fallen leaves. White drops of ink that improbably bleed right off their journal to rupture the void no one had known existe......

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Categories: improbably, daughter, divorce, father daughter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Permanent Sanctuary School
...I came to AllSouls looking for permanent sanctuary. Sanctuary, not only from a Rumpian absence of civility and non-violent trust and integrity and compassion, but also pro-actively for an ......

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Categories: improbably, community, fear, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Still I Am
...I hate me More than any of you could Still i am The man who stood Gravity couldn't pull me down Looking through space From the outside in Taking each pain with a widening grin Improbably Prob......

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Categories: improbably, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Her Wonderful Mother Nature
...HER WONDERFUL MOTHER NATURE Once upon her entering and exiting Her comings and goings Groceries, gym or mall Mother Nature made the mirrors love her All-knowing reflection, No adjustmen......

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Categories: improbably, romance,
Form: Romanticism
The Sun Will Shine On Your Face
...Suspended improbably on shoulders Hunched by years of glacial attrition And threaded through a forest of boulders: The path that holds the key to my mission I speak allegorically, because This t......

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Categories: improbably, friendship, hope, life, love
Form: Sonnet
Suburban Nocturne
...A vertical sliver pries into the doorway, a beam from the watchful eye in the hall While amber stars in cages, captives in lampposts, shout prophecies beneath the moon Obscured by trees Their crie......

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Categories: improbably, hope, introspection, life, nature
Form: Free verse

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