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Run Up Poems - Poems about Run Up

Premium MemberLazy Evening on my Porch with My Dogs

...the evening is alive with promise
dogs lie on their porch, loving the breeze
chimes are tinkling in a happy manner
there are two sounds – the air conditioner and crickets

the wind picks up stre...
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Categories: run up, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGRANDPAS PATH

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Our cabin in North Carolina was built by Deborah’s mom and dad in 1983…
It rests on the side of a mountain…nestled in among the trees.

When Deborah’s dad was alive he had a garden terraced off ...
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Categories: run up, grandfather, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWhat Was I Thinking, O'Yes

...My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey 
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent 
in a border town, oh what...
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Categories: run up, character, love, sweet, sweet
Form: Free verse

The Monster Under The Bed

...I no longer check under the bed for monsters, 
I don't run when I turn out the light, 
Or hide under my blanket when I hear a noise, 
I don't run up the stairs, scared to look behind, 
I no longe...
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Categories: run up, 11th grade, anxiety, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Smoked

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She smoked

She smoked, 
my mother did, a LOT!
I never liked it.
To me she looked like
of those “molls” in 
detective magazines,
later on television, 
cigarette dangling 
from the corner ...
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Categories: run up, addiction, endurance, mother, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberJust Dust

..."It's just dust," he said, kicking the dry ground
With a worn boot,
Toe pointed cowboy style
But with none of the flash.
"This could be grandpa," he said,
Shoulders rounded, eyes to the ground.
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Categories: run up, family, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membersitting on my porch in Kansas

...It is over sixty degrees today
Unusually warm for pre-March Kansas
I sit on my porch, sunbathing
Wearing corduroy slacks, a jacket and tennis shoes
A swift breeze gives my face a bit of a chill
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Categories: run up, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt's In Their Nature

...‘Twas the night before Christmas and baby 
Liz-Beth cried, crawled, and sat waiting for me.
My police neighbor trains a NARC doggy
Liz sees, does, and sits by her need…daddy.

‘Twas the night be...
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Categories: run up, allusion, analogy, animal, growing
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAutumn Early Morning

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honey rays sunbeams
enter through window
old oak tree's leaves dance
squirrel run up trunk
mate sits on back fence

feel recliner
yorkie silk hair
porcelain cup
forced vent warm air

new...
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Categories: run up, nature,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Premium MemberNo Stranger To Love

...The cold night air wraps around my shoulders like a moth-eaten shawl.  
A rasping rain pelts the bitter sidewalk below.  
Visions of what once was flash in and out of the headlights passing by.  
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Categories: run up, heartbreak, heartbroken, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membera tempest for the almanac

...The evening stars were gone, replaced
by a spreading, ominous purple bruise of cloud.
When the wind rose, in sudden violent
crisscrossing gusts, everything went into motion.

White cabanas shook...
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Categories: run up, holiday, humor, rain, storm,
Form: Free verse

Infertility

...Be kinder to the tree, they say 
Don’t poke or prod or cut at it 
Don’t try to break its branches 
Don’t run up to attack it 

Be kinder to the fish, they say 
Be gentle with the guppies 
If c...
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Categories: run up, health, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Barking A Dog

...Barking at the dog
One day the dog got angry
I run up a tree....
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Categories: run up, character, engagement, funny, perspective,
Form: Senryu

DESERT HAD ME

...DESERT HAD ME 

Now ! Sworn by the wind
Toll! Hooked onto the desert
Gathered my thought from thy rays
Deep in my thought wants meditation 
Down on kneel wants consolidation 

Roses won't wan...
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Categories: run up, health, life, wind,
Form: Rhyme

Up, up and away

...Heyyy friend, since we always UP to something, I wanna give a tribute to the word UP, because everyday of our life we do something meaningful with the word up.
So with that being said, I wanna know,...
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Categories: run up, cheer up, life, meaningful,
Form: Narrative

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