Short Upturned Poems

sweet mango hedgehog
upturned towards eager lips
golden nectar drips...

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the cold wet sea spray
fell upon my upturned face 
heard my own laughter...

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Upturned;
our faces,
seek out the sky;
feeling the raindrops fall;
We laugh....

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touch like gossamer

    kissing my upturned eyelids

         mistlike Irish rain...

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psychedelic peace
signs of upturned soil, standing
in the gap for us

5/27/2019...

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The day yawns
stretches...
like a flower
petals upturned
ghostlike vapors
drift away
Bullfrogs croak
My dog slumbers...

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A gaggle of eight
swimming in a row. Below            
upturned eyes watching
the downy offspring parade.
A splash! now there are seven....

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Spring dances and
does cartwheels
in the rain with such joy.
Her daffodils dazzle, 
faces upturned to catch
this nectar of nature.



C. Alvez...

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My little man,
With tiny feet and tiny hands.
Smiling, sighing,
Winning hearts without trying.
Chubby cheeks, upturned nose,
Bright blues eyes and little bitty toes....

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The upturned eyes lets him know that you're calling.
The clasped together hands lets him know to start listening.
For you could be talking & never saying a word.
Just know that he who prays will always be heard....

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wordlessly the gift is given
proffered by an upturned face
silent recognition as the eyes embrace
of intimate connection
an acknowledgment of grace
which brought two lives together
at this time and in this place...

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Branches adorned with new snow
reach high toward sapphire skies
then gently bow overhead
sheltering my path

Wnds whisper through supple limbs
- the gentle giants awake
to throw soft flakes of cold snow
at my upturned face...

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Memory of my grandson at 6 years old

July 4th 2016

cache extra cuteness
courting field of coneflowers
purple purity
cute as button upturned smile
stirs boy’s long hair and wild grass
...

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books feel no pain
though tattered and torn. 

not pricked with voodoo precision,
chiseled at the gums.

my upturned smile borrows misery.
I can not turn the pages.

the patrons read my lips
"woe be gone"...

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My feet are killing me
     In case nobody knows
          The chill is real
                 But all I feal
                       Is the pinching of my toes
                           Oh woe Oh
                                 Woe oh woe...

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on tip of a wisp
as it bevels and bloats
streamlined scribbles etching a note
upturned waves collapsing
in cotton bobs
greys and embers mating a mistake
ethereal tendril veins knitting patters undone
phoenix fogs missed mist
of almost pink...

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They fall over themselves
Rush to tap on the blessing
Urged on by the holy man

Wallets are turned out
Blessings are decreed
Souls upturned await

They study not the word
Preacher has a direct line
To the creator and maker



#Luis 2017...

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Who give me cold comfort
when the Moon rides the pale
I see the mice pass the silho
and then I praise  Schubert
who has the courage to change his tune

There's a man on a bicycle
he has no choice
but to ride the upturned mile
in search of his brother...

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Her unassailed Highness sleeps
belly upturned
in fretful repose

Garnished green, by a faerie ring
bare and barren
laid out for a spell

Majestic head in verdant bed
Impromptu eyeful
a cameo gaze

black and white, by degree
Covert, supine
pussyfoot queen...

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The sun is low among the branches
Of my emerald picture tree,
And there among the leaves it dances
With the summer breeze set free.

The light then shines through curtain lace,
Which lets beams in in flashes,
Falls upon my upturned face—
Makes rainbows on my lashes....

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That smirk
an upturned challenge
or warning
climb – it says
ascend
rung upon rung
to the top
to wonder
of other ladders
other smirks
reflect
on that subtle hint
of warning.


©4/23/2019

The Smile at the Foot of a Ladder Poetry Contest
Craig Cornish sponsor...

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Until you really love someone,
you don’t know what you’ll do

The old rules self-abated,
priorities renewed

Until you really love someone,
you won’t see past yourself

Your life upturned, your role reversed
—your soul to someone else

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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Limerick : Once a dainty Milkmaid with hands like lead

Once a dainty Milkmaid with hands like lead
Milked a cow whose one eye was painted red:
She woke up terrified
Thought Dali Pasteurized:
Felt upturned moustache growing through her head!

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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During day, mind is clogged
By a thousand thoughts
A pot of marbles upturned
On attempting to sweep them together
They slip and slither
Running this way and that way

At night, after their vagrant wanderings
They come back to roost
......................... if not insomniac!...

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One moment when the dust today
Was flung against my upturned face,
I felt the winter’s breath convey
A dream once mine in childhood’s place.

Yet though I walk a farther mile,
The dream returns, unchanged in hue—
No sadder now than all the while,
For nothing else is ever new....

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