Moats Poems - Poems about Moats

...I want to stop the world. Not freeze the spin. I want to critique inertia Still the blind momentum. Interrupt the cycle of noise, The pull of distraction, The serpent of deception. To stop......

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... To the skies...cries of have we sinned..the seasons spinned...winter grinned as before it’s really beginned...spring’s been sneakily binned.. That bitter wind does cheekily blow...delivers tingl......

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...My neighbor's piano swirls around her finger likened to a keyed car where scrapes linger. She teases out a tune as we both try to hum along with swirling keys her fingers drum. The naturals a......

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...I wonder How far we’ll go So desperate for heroes who are first Criminal enterprises Romanticized as rebels Lies wrapped in a maybe-he-could-make-it-all-better? From what? To what? We do no......

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...I don’t think she’s really aware That the touch of her soft flowing hair Takes me drifting through time To that evening at nine When she stole my heart without care I had just held the door N......

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...Rows of green spaces in a row Trying to control natures flow, all things wild have to conform, To fit in with accepted norm. Cut down trees they block out the sun, Trim the lawn curtai......

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...we spent the afternoon throwing ourselves off castle walls jumping into moats we spent our time pierced with swords having arrows hit us and many more miss us in aching arms in shields that's w......

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...You sunny day people, so busy and bright, You bring us the joy of a gypsy in flight, You dance in the dew of a beautiful morn', And capture the flag in a field of corn. But I love the drip that......

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...These are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems... Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and ......

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...Trump Poems and Epigrams VI Trump’s Retribution Resolution by Michael R. Burch My New Year’s resolution? I require your money and votes, for you are my retribution. May I offer you dark......

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...Every night the gates of delirium are torn apart the irrational flies across the moats and walls of my defenses as easily and seductively as a murmuration of starlings, and I am rescued carried ......

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... Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides. Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing. Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengagi......

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...I’m looking forward to letting my bare feet sink in silt the waves weighing me down salt sea leaving me breathless I’m looking forward to the sun bleaching my hair heating my a......

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... This is the Ballad of Sandcastle Jane Who went to the seaside in the pouring rain Where she built sandcastles on the seashore At first there was one, then there were more. ......

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...rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic, a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags hitting tree tops, branch......

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