Short Cusp Poems

Short Cusp Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cusp by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cusp by length and keyword.


The Cusp

The prelude to a wish,
  all time conspired

Eternity on call
 —the night on fire

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member On the Cusp

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on the cusp

poised precarious, point perched,
lies threshold brink verge,
the tipping-point pivot to,
rise/fall from grace.
Form: Verse

On the Cusp of Change

He teetered on the cusp of change, Wanting to make each moment last ~ This flying of time seemed so strange, He teetered on the cusp of change ~ What would he not do to exchange his life for harmless childhood past! He teetered on the cusp of change, Wanting to make each moment last.
Form: Triolet

Cusp of Equinox

Last night ached with the fear of fall.
I stubbed a toe against the dark.
And then came morning, sparking 
ponderosa’s candles one after another; 
igniting every living bird with the spirit 
of song as we tip the seasons,
the sun tilting to touch each stunned tree 
with the amber of its sap, so it stands 
for the moment transparent.

On the Cusp

Time came as the fourth dimension
It wiped away all allusion
Transition from special to general relativity
increased the universe's accessibility
Time travel once a hyperbole
is now possible through wormhole
The geometry of space-time
made gravity an age old mime
For high precision came the strontium clock
which made cesium an uninhabited block
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member On the Cusp of Facing Up

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There's a faint light beaming up through the cracks
in everything that has the answers.
I stand on the edge peering in,
facing up to the risk of failing, falling in,
on the cusp of not looking away.

No thunder rolls, no curtain calls,
for the silence between 
breaths, blinks, and heartbeats 
holds the final bluff and dare,
as toes reach over the edge
and shadows stall in their recall,
of what might otherwise have been,
on the cusp of facing up.

It's All In The Mind

Before nodding off in bed and on the cusp of wide awake and fast asleep when I can't keep my eyes open while drifting down into darkness deep the oddest thoughts cross my mind without so much as a single warning but even stranger still of it's own free will it recalls them all come the morning where they originate I can't say as fleeting flybys quite romancy they're not dreams or so it seems but nightly random flights of fancy
Form: Rhyme

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