Short Toppling Poems

a kid doesn’t know freedom - toppling a lid, sneaking a cookie delights...

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flank toppled by pawns 
confident king sits and yawns…
a new check-mate dawns...

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O' you ancient towers and spires
erected over houses of liars
you will surely fall as says fate
change your ways before it's too late...

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Future's hand
brandishes a sword
for what felt like heaven
my path to hell
and the only spin
my toppling head
into the basket
of just deserts....

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I see the shadows following the darkness
hue fading under aegis
The last toppling of the wine
I see the glances in their rain
whose faces that can touch their reflection



 


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Honey coloured blossom
dawn-to-dark 
pensive belle
bear the palm 
tremulous branches 
moves back and forth 
toppling flamelike
beauty by the road 
golden hue forsaken 
trampled by feet...

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     Statues, iconoclasts love to destroy
     Toppling monuments brings them great joy
        Keeps them all limber
        As they shout ‘Timber’
      Columbus crashed down saying ~ ‘Land ahoy’
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Lust: To be enamoured with rust.

The way that the seasons stand
Upon the shoulders of those
That came before.

In the end always toppling into winter,
As anything found in death
Must to death return....

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Stooked up sheaves,midst growing clover
In wind and rain,toppling over

A polished blade ,glides to and fro
Timber echos in the glade below

The hands tick around,one by one
Tedium ends,with the setting sun...

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tippling but not toppling
bending like a willow in the north win
pushed down by loud shouts of thunder
I ride the crackling lightening
feeling like a wind surfer
knowing I will end up back on top
optimism rules...

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Abundance bone chilling, defrosting everything, fells great herbaceousness, icebound January kills lawns made nearly opaque, quelling riotous snow. Toppling under volatile winds xylocopa yearns zealously


By Mandy Tams...

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And in one small notion
Everything came toppling down,
Finally settling,
Piles and piles,
Conglomerate and unrecognisable

One huge, dirty mess
Of partial truths and partial lies,
Littered with false alibis,
And all the while
I attempt to rebuild...

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Sitting looking at the leaf
Falling at the root
Suddenly more leaves are falling
Toppling one another at the base
Because strong winds blows them
I feel sudden chill because of the shake
The wind stop, I see dead leaves scattered
All around the tree and me....

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close up the heart 
no longer in service 
no longer open for business
doors have been slammed shut 
for good this time
the space has been 
condemned 
set for demolition  
the wreaking ball 
has crashed into 
the building 
the walls have came
toppling down...

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false confessions
toppling earth
stretching lines
of false freedom
about to be broken
expressions sliding onto
waiting red
unhurriedly
dogs meditating
on the long winding
roads
illusions of space
confessions
of the sins of
omission
our grey hairs
are turning
black again-...

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Windswept, the rows of leaves descent.
Bereft the bare of toppling dreamt.
The lamb of fluffiness gives clue.
A pram does shake with laughter coo.

The revenue of shapes and hues,
For heaven sweeps, creates such views.
Plush yards of harvest dreams full tilt.
Postcards of dawn or dusk and gilt.
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words crashing down....
every word ever spoken have
all came a toppling down around me 
words crashing down....
every single word that i 
have ever uttered all 
seem to be hunting me 
words crashing down....
i am left standing 
among the shattered 
phrases that ever escaped 
my lips
words crashing down.......

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I hear the steps of the storm
dancing on its discarded clothes.

The abandoned masks of the wind
crashes through night to light.
Today, I watch small birds bloom
on the rim of a toppling maelstrom.

I saw the moment,
I saw life forgive its extinction.
Of God’s grand compassion,
I saw nothing, nothing more....

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Time, space, Being toppling over;
The pivot of nothingness.
I exist here in the moment, moment by moment.
This is where the many become one, 
I want to say I stood at the void and looked with a countenance
Of love and adoration into the emptiness
And, saw the uncreated come into existence from the timeless
Pool of the void. Love exists in form over and over....

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I knew after spring would come the fire
I have seen the summers where promise withers
In the toppling heat. I have seen desire
Raging in spasms like a tide that swells and shivers.
It's not the same when the climate comes
Like a cogitation. What shall we call them now? See
How the streets overflow? The old thumbs
Cannot hold back the surging masses that will be free....

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Students at Work


See them work!
Studious looks,
Buried in books,
Leaflets flipping,
Binders snapping,
Pencils tapping,
Textbooks slamming,
Nick-knacks toppling,
Back-packs rummaging,
Noses rubbing,
Nail nibbling,
knees flapping,
Foreheads scrunching,
Eyebrows rising,
Lips compressing,
Faces scowling,
Chins supported,
Tongues catapulting,
Coughs echoes,
Work Accomplished!...

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The waves are racing
 Towards the shore
  The swishing and crashing
   As the waves reach the shore
    The crunch of the sand under my feet
     Boom crash crunch
      I march to the beat
      Sandcastles toppling 
     Umbrella's being pushed
    Storm clouds appear
   The bright blue sky is being taken over 
  Booming waves
 Whipping winds
The storm has begun...

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She used to be fast
and bouncy,
but after two strokes
her head began to tilt
on the rolling deck
of her body.

Through bleary eyes,
she saw off
starlings and cats,
toppling into them
with her
John Wayne walk.

When called
She would wobble sideways
tracking the sound,
then lurch forward,
tongue lolling;
a wide grin of recognition
plastered over
her fuzzy brain....

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Rusted iron crosses 
Bled by ocean spray
Fascism’s fury rages
Churning ruptured remains
Haunted by steel specters
Drenched in frigid light
Waves of ruddy soldiers
Toppling tyranny’s tide
Machine gun masses
Deafening and fortified
Ricocheted cries crawling
Over fleshy speckled mines
Limbs of solidarity 
Buried on foreign shores
Blood brothers of freedom
Veterans of world wars...

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Algorithms of thoughts flowing
through gateways of forming waves
Synthising emotions into language
The beauteous rippling toppling freely
Overflowing and weaving creativity
What a place to reside
Inside an artists mind
The universe is taken for a ride
Clashing with other galaxies
Breathing life into new stars
Without the restraints of gravity

Inspired by eminen song( Lose Yourself )...

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