Recoiled Poems - Poems about Recoiled

... Written: July 19, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Rob Carmack Quote "The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why" by Rumi ****************** I stood while ......

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...Your Rain was tears on my window pane - the first poem of yours I had seen - pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse, grief-blue with regret and what should have been. I thought me......

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...I walked that road when crisis struck— voices blurred, strangers recoiled, and help summoned cold authority. Then a kind man appeared— heart vast as hope’s horizon— he paused his world to meet......

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...Before your clocks, before your name/ Before dust whispered into bone/ There was light-I was flame/ Crowned in brilliance, alone/ Not fallen. Not damned. Just other/ Too bright for Heaven's frag......

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...These are my early poems, or juvenilia. Stars by Michael R. Burch, age 22 Though night has come, I'm not alone, for stars appear —fierce, faint and far— to dance until they disappear. T......

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...I sat facing the east in supplication and meditation. My soul rose like an eagle, piercing the spiritual realm, its wings unfurling over a sky of clouds alive with unseen forces. When a storm struck,......

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...Was it the kiss of the July morning sun, That lit your face with so much glow, Or the possibility of a meal in an unwary dove, That lifted the glaring muzzle of my silent gun, By the stream’s wat......

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...Is this a real situation Or my imagination Maybe it's a dream As real as it seems As dark as night I see a bright light Drawing my body in I'm moving but not walking I feel light as ......

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...26-7-2024 Underneath the skin, coiled blood hissed. And behind his sinister grin, A hundred teeth hid a recoiled tongues twist. His speech blunders, but within his eyes seethe, Words wherein the......

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...Florid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer. A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective. Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation. A miniature jaunt, interment; glove compa......

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...Your smile now leaves me immune to your nearness as she spits her spit to stories of drought amongst the crowded camp fire where her salt tears are recoiled ......

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... First buds emerge in velvet cocoons As dank, dark mornings transform Into frost clad, bright, clean-aired dawns. Grass laden heavy with dew, Nectar of nature to sustain awakening creatures. ......

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.... for public domain My thoughts scattered, my soul leaned toward running on a Roman sword. The enemy, a futile life, recoiled from this soldier's knife. "Come live this way," the beckon......

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...It’s Christmas Eve, Babe In the car pound It shouldn’t be this way Should not have been found But I’m the lucky one I am the thirteenth one And when I got a scare I hi-tailed out of there ......

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...We’d just sat down to enjoy our White Duck tacos by a river…the French Broad when we were happily surprised by the beauty of nature…surprised and a bit awed. For the biggest insect we ever saw…fr......

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