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Shunting Poems - Poems about Shunting

Saturday, September 23, 2023

...Saturday, September 23, 2023  

Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.

After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn E...
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Categories: shunting, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTail Trauma

...Tail Trauma

I’m a Cat (fancy that) and my tail went all droopy.
When I came in with it all bent, it sent my oomans loopy.
She started making phone calls, he put on shoes a...
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Categories: shunting, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Morgan Dempster Morgan

...They called him Morgan Dempster Morgan
And he wore his name with pride
Though he didn’t have a heart 
Just selenium cells inside
And he took all his food
From the wind from the sun 
Gathered as...
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Categories: shunting, earth, fantasy, future, science
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSun of Tomorrow

...We ran in the green field, playing with shadows in the summer breeze.
We watched the swallows skimming the grass and darting around the trees.

The flow of the river tickled our ears. The splash o...
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Categories: shunting, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Sand Castles

...In the middle of a sky so blue
death came suddenly, sullenly.
Schräge Musik to my ears,
the sum of all fears in that
late October sky of brilliant blue
when I, one of the few, knew, too late,
t...
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Categories: shunting, memorial, remembrance day, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIreland - a Divided Island Part One

...born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia a...
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Categories: shunting, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberVariations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii

...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

(The pantun line varies betw...
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Categories: shunting, age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum

Autumn Equinox 2018

...I riff flecked about thee august
     Autumn Equinox 2018,
     this polymath learned why,
September Equinox
     will be at 9:54 PM,
     which spoiler alert thy
learned (courtesy Google),
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Categories: shunting, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy

Withdrawn For Good From Rat Race

...Soul, slow down your flight
A kindred soul dare to delight
In  your tryst when you hold her tight
 
Savouring every breath, every moment
Shunting aside pain and torment
Shutting out a callous c...
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Categories: shunting, poems,
Form: Free verse

Glad To Depart From My Rampart

...I could write you a blank cheque
To fatten the purse you adore
In the morning in a cash prayer you partake
A major part of your adopted folklore

Which despite tons of reticence, silence and pat...
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Categories: shunting, poems,
Form: Free verse

Butterflies and Dragonflies

...Butterflies and Dragonflies

Butterflies and dragonflies flutters in daze,
all around, remaining oblivious to the maze !
Their little world of nectar, pollen and flowers,
giving more than it tak...
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Categories: shunting, beauty, butterfly, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStock

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			Stock

Lines derail trains made from stern stock
    shunting worsted words in wagons to and fro
cabins depleted by looters piled on dock
    signals distressed faces not any more  

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Categories: shunting, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

In Mammary Of: Maternal Bosoms

...breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages wh...
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Categories: shunting, absence, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Elegy

The Republic of Jenish, the Lost Resort

...Once there was an intellect called smoke, the philosopher
Architect of a new republic of peace by dare
Shunting viruses by tolerance
Eliminating interferences by endurance
Bloody this domain is for g...
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Categories: shunting, humor, endurance,
Form: Limerick

I Am Poetry

...I stand solo, aloof in the snow, a precipitation 
                     of words cascading from a nebulous eye 
Fathoms wide, forever dripping like wax onto 
                     a punctured paper ser...
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Categories: shunting, dedication, devotion, dream, hope,
Form: Bio

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