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Reversals Poems - Poems about Reversals


Premium Member Reversals
You said goodbye Like it would be a grenade in my heart Waited for the bang Not realizing I had let go from the start You thought it would be better If we were to stay here, both worlds apart You said goodbye But the horse had not been put before the cart You wanted a reaction You wanted me to cry You wanted me...

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Categories: reversals, for her, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reversals of Fortune - 6 Sharings
Reversals of Fortune I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground (which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck to my brain than ‘Casino Royale,’ where all know odds known stacked from the start, so ‘house’ wins (called ‘fair game’). When fools dream luck’s...

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Categories: reversals, fun, life, science,
Form: Rhyme



Exception
So much sorrow and failure I see. All are shipwrecked in life's angry sea. Be it illness, divorce, rack and ruin perforce. The exception, of course... will be me....

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Categories: reversals, future, irony, sorrow,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Midstream Reversals
When a plant an organism a biological system is young, this is nature's season for segregation and simplification, specialization. Time to ego grow internally toward full flowering and re-seeding maturation. Just so, when a plant, an ecosystemic planet, an individual's lifetime, a nation-state's cultural lifeline reaches historic maturity, mid-life crises of climates and landscapes reverse direction, reverse patriarchal dominance to patriot-matriotic ecobalancing isms, so that what had been WinWin ecopolitical recessive must become species dominant...

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Categories: reversals, birth, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Reversals of Childish Thinking
Instead of listing what’s wrong with the world Let’s list what we could do to make it strong Childishly simple is the integrity on which we set our pride Is it so hard not to lie, steal, cheat, defile with words That simply are not right? Treat others like you would want to be treated We preach to our children Unadorned ideas...

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Categories: reversals, introspection, life, people, philosophy,
Form: Free verse




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