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Runnel Poems - Poems about Runnel

The Tops

...up a steep and gritty track
reach the tops
wilderness reclaims a verge
of wintery snags
land juts and tilts
hauls out
lays treeless

clumps and hags
pitch up stricken soil
heap their marshy...
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Categories: runnel, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes

...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories: runnel, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberCaptivating Time

...He is tired of seeing everyday
the scintillating sun rises and sets,
craves to capture the captivating time 
as a beguiled butterfly flitting away
beyond the halcyon horizon.

So, on daybreak h...
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Categories: runnel, analogy, feelings, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Waterway

..."You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.”

A gentle mist
billows above the man-made pond
that spawns a rippling

sorrel-dusky brook
that ebbs and widens as it beco...
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Categories: runnel, allusion, angst, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry

Sound of Nothingness

...Grow in silence,
That I call a reliance;
In that no one will choke
And break my heart like a joke .
It picks me up from the mess;
Sh! Hear the nothingness.

An escape from the raucous world,
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Categories: runnel, 10th grade, silence,
Form: Rhyme



Tunnel of Death

...On a cold Winter day, the couple went for a walk.
Shelby and Andrew held hands, and their talk
soon turned to starting a family. Shelby wanted
children, but Andrew's smile disappeared, daunted
by...
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Categories: runnel, murder,
Form: Rhyme

Hideaway Home

...I spot the tunnel
tis is not bright
alas a runnel
it's in my sight
fear of runners
in the park
leery of gunners
after dark
Mobsters Ball
it is a panic
the bathroom stall
a hustler manic
n...
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Categories: runnel, corruption, evil, mystery, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCapture

...He’s tired of seeing everyday
the rise and set of crimson sun,
decides to capture time, thinking
as butterfly it flies away
beyond deep horizon sinking.
So, on daybreak he starts to run,
his bu...
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Categories: runnel, butterfly, life, time,
Form: Rhyme

Donny Brook Doth Runnel Along

...Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
     timelessly ...
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Categories: runnel, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberKingdom of My Embrace

..."Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
poss...
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Categories: runnel, absence, appreciation, children, family,
Form: Free verse

The Deluge

...THE DELUGE
 Placid waters sans piquant ripples
 Freaked out with furious,forceful  jerks
Reeking of rare reckless rumbling  rage
 Bloated brook  burst beyond banks, berserk

 Downhill town dupe...
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Categories: runnel, anger, crush,
Form: Verse

Hold On and Steer

...When the unforeseen mistrel swipes the land,

tiny warriors trudge against the force.

“Back down! Retreat!”, the general commands.

T...
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Categories: runnel, boat, soldier, war, weather,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Of Rats and Mice

...I am in my house,
With a panicked mouse.
Coming back from the fridge
Going through the sand-ridge
Into its hole in a jiffy
Then squeaking out - Yippee !

Then come two rats
With a hard pat on...
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Categories: runnel, cat, fun, house, simple,
Form: Rhyme

Failure

...FAILURE.


Isolated tentative in rosy tower
Sublime detached observer of success
Making its own life and time
Swallowing in one long yawn all the glories
Keen scented existence and sanctified ...
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Categories: runnel, allegory, philosophy, poets,
Form: Verse

Listen To Nature At Night

...How delightful is the softest sound of a clear and starry summer's night,
You may hear a moth bashing up against a cottage window pane near a lamp,
If you listen really hard you can hear him amongst ...
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Categories: runnel, nature, sound, garden, green,
Form: Prose Poetry

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