Manoeuvre Poems

Elemental Formulations of Healing For The Soul

...Elemental formulations of healing for the soul 
Consequential co-ordinations as we resist growing old 
Monumental calculations from a mind in the scientific cold 
Fundamental indignation from a he...
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Categories: manoeuvre, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberVictor Tries Again

...All I can be if it’s left up to me
Is a brain in a tank full of bubbles
Can’t hear it, can’t see it, I only can be it, 
And that’s just the start of my troubles

It was no disease that killed mo...
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Categories: manoeuvre, body, humorous,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberArmageddon

...Turned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A

My TV depicting an end, clear...
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Categories: manoeuvre, christmas, war,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Miracle

...This world today is a hurting place
We have to manoeuvre it with grace
Penning about cats, dogs, trees, leaves, and everything in between
Trying to survive and not be mean
Sunsets, sunrises, and ...
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Categories: manoeuvre, birth, cat, dog, earth,
Form: Rhyme

Surfing the tides of life

...Surfing the tides of life 

I'm still riding the waves duck diving my way through 
Or occasionally having to ask for a hand and toe in when I need to, 
Sometimes I'm amped and pop up and ride a p...
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Categories: manoeuvre, emotions, life, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse


Seductive Shadows

...Midnight's mystery, she wears with grace
A black dress that hugs her curves in place
That makes my heart race, 
Even by a lock, in her gaze... 
Silky fabric, smooth as her skin
Invites my eyes t...
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Categories: manoeuvre, appreciation, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGrocery shopping with mum

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It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon.  You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick.  It takes you ten minutes to get into the car.  You ne...
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Categories: manoeuvre, mother son, mothers day,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberWide Eyed Saunter Part Two

...There’s a burning yen nomadic deep within entrenched,
to absorb fresh environments ambrosial on foot,
where incidental hue or august colour wash abound,
or that March bloom tantalising shady patch...
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Categories: manoeuvre, celebration, character, color, deep,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberWide Eyed Saunter

...There is an urge within me to wander randomly,
to explore in vivid detail each kaleidoscope,
incidental hue or pristine colour I encounter,
or just as likely that tantalising shady patch,
with it...
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Categories: manoeuvre, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haibun

Alienation Underground

...An old world united.
Attributes not known from the peace we campaigned.
Enforced into an unknown war we currently endeavour. 
Utmost bower bird tactics, the uninvited dominantly proceed
From abov...
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Categories: manoeuvre, fantasy, future, people, planet,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJack Frost’s Low Blow

...Jack Frost nibbled at my fingers
And he froze my toes
He put rouge on both of my cheeks
And blusher on my nose
He spread ice crystals through my hair
And on my eye brows too
He froze my moustac...
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Categories: manoeuvre, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMoulin Rouge

...Moulin Rouge

The greens and pinks magnetize to my eye
Like flowers abloom in a field espied,
Overwhelming creation’s invention
With beauty of grandiose dimension,
Shifting to the wind’s...
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Categories: manoeuvre, art, dance, french, history,
Form: Verse

triptych

...Hydraulic system, heart made of pistons
Every co-ordinated mechanical manoeuvre
My heart served to you on a platter, your hors d'oeuvre
I look into your eyes, a deplorable disguise
Retina...
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Categories: manoeuvre, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

The Light From the Shadows

...The Light from the Shadows

The light from the shadows of a thousand candles burning
The bright configuration of a lighthouse plainly warning
Plain sight considerations of a future that is formin...
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Categories: manoeuvre, 12th grade, courage, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Signs of the Times

...Signs of the Times 

A dictator-ship sailing the seven seas
A night-birds song on the evenings breeze
An unorthodox relationship with anti-freeze
The heimleck manoeuvre over a piece of cheese

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Categories: manoeuvre, anxiety, beautiful, corruption, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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