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Poising Poems - Poems about Poising

Premium Member12th Street

...12th Street

The curtain rises, the stage light
beams on the darkest street in town.
On a hot night, 12th street lives.
The old abandon buildings jump
with jazz, hot rock, and laughter.
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Categories: poising, image, lust, people,
Form: Free verse

All My Students

...Blowing breeze they are
Flowing fragrance they are
Glowing glee they are

Lively lightning they are
Tender thunder they are
Range of rain they are

Shining Sun they are
Moving Moon they are
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Categories: poising, 10th grade, repetition, student,
Form: Lyric



The Rooster and the Peacock

...On  a  lower  branch  of  a  crooked  mango  tree ,
Flapping  wings  and  shining  tail ,  in  charge
Perched  the  happy  rooster  steady  and  free,
Intending  to  view  his  surroundings  at  l...
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Categories: poising, nature,
Form: Lyric

Divide and Conquer

...We have the purveyors
That hide the truth
Causing division
Poising the minds of youths
With hateful ideologies
And entangled roots
In a confused state
They spread the lies
In a toll of conseq...
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Categories: poising, allusion, black african american,
Form: Free verse

Phoenix Rising

...Phoenix rising

One can see the emptiness of ages in her eyes,
riding the beast of burden without disguise.
Dead to rapture and despair by daily routine,
taken another drag of smoke to be genuin...
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Categories: poising, joy, love, magic, senses,
Form: Ballade



Premium MemberTrophy Hunters

...Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
      shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his sanctuary;
it took Cecil forty hours to die, how he must have suffered,
            he was tra...
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Categories: poising, how i feel,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberCovered Bridge

...Once The Covered bridge





Till last fine month 
I was poising firm,
Aloft those giggling waters
that often went wild.

Taking pride of
my sinewy timbers,
As brimming loads of 
endles...
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Categories: poising, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Ballerina

...Long ago there lived a girl with long livid locks of sable,
Whose vivid avid amber eyes derived, it seems, from fable.

Her tiny tendons tied to nimble bones to each limber muscle enhanced,
By th...
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Categories: poising, dance, fun,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberThe Hunt

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Cecil the lion of Zimbabwe, famous and beloved,
      Shot by a bow hunter after being lured from his sanctuary;
It took Cecil forty hours to die, how he must have suffered,
            He w...
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Categories: poising, animal, beautiful, death, nature,
Form: Verse

Synth

...How could he be so cold with the raging lightning striking through his aluminum lines? 

His synthetic skin made of wax, glass, and fibrous mass has more than an eternity brushed abrasively against...
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Categories: poising, beauty, body, love, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry

On Bedlam

...He sat on the bed of roses
They were spread in a confused manner
Certainly intrepid in their graciousness
Their petals waning at their edges
And there alone, he sank into another
She was distant...
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Categories: poising, depression,
Form: Free verse

How Will I Die

...The more i think about it the more I wonder
will i die in a deep slumber?, or will the heavens send a angel for me.
will a car come from around the corner and hit me 
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Categories: poising, anxiety, death,
Form: I do not know?

Guns On the Rise Hero's Fall

...Guns on the rise Hero's fall 
The preacher man ask me never to curse a thing 
I replied not if I have to curse one day 

Guns on the rise Hero's fall
The day gun was made 
Worth a curse 
A fas...
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Categories: poising, abuse, africa, change, conflict,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberTwo Murders - Part I

...1.


In the slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take place, unseen, unfelt
In woo...
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Categories: poising, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse

Gulf Spill

...The gods of oil have reigned downed their wrath,
For which we have not begun to see the aftermath.
For thousands of miles balls of tar will wash upon a virgin beach.
It will be felt around the wor...
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Categories: poising, angst, animals, life, loss,
Form: I do not know?

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