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Sidelong Poems - Poems about Sidelong

Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting I saw you through refracted light- a prism of chance splitting ordinary into spectrum. Wind-tangled hair terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails th......

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Categories: sidelong, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 5
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Urdu poems about life, death, Love, longing, hearts, being captive, strength, cruelty, temper, the sun, darkness, shadows and faith. I’m the captive of Love, ......

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Categories: sidelong, dark, death, life, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Satire in Limerick Acts
... Act One: the stage and scenery are set I was told the play, I'd not soon forget But if truth were to be told More like the game, whack-a-mole I needed a hammer, not a lorgnette Thespians w......

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Categories: sidelong, satire,
Form: Limerick
POINT ZERO
...POINT ZERO Birth slipped into fast flowing rivers of patterned fissures her arching brows brazen searching sagaciously microscoping every moment tangoing across thorny thickets Ho......

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Categories: sidelong, 12th grade, birth, death,
Form: Alliteration
Last Night of Love
...She wanted one last verse, one more night of love affection I did further than that, reverse and I showed her my disaffection... She looked at me sidelong a......

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Categories: sidelong, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Faces
...FACES compelling  features ageing into  formal components  of  continuous interest an unplanned unpremeditated sequence  inventive & revered to  capture the soul  images a  testim......

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Categories: sidelong, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Clerihew Fragonard
...Jean-Honore Fragonard with paint was quite a card Cheeks & bosoms all had a place in sidelong glances in passionate embrance......

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Categories: sidelong, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Moon
...waxing at her sidelong glance sun, fear of falling in love blushes hides and sets full enthroned blissfully on chariot of fair lambs in her bridal charm waning rubbing shoulders wi......

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Categories: sidelong, moon,
Form: Haiku
Reigned In Too Early
...Anonymous whispers, blowing secrets, softly blown air through lips, syllables like sidelong glances down cafeteria tables, avoid directness, avoid contact, see, girls nearly women don’t speak ......

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Categories: sidelong, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Pictorial Natural Love
...Sidelong the sun beats in warm pan where loves naturally happen Mature love between apples and peaches, ......

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Categories: sidelong, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Ivy House
...As a relic of those bygone days, it sits alone and neglected With turrets high and shutters drawn its mystery story perfected Bay windows that at one time shone now dirty where dust has caught The......

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Categories: sidelong, allusion,
Form: Blank verse
Dream Fragments
...Opening the latch, my mind flits out through sleep’s window, roams in a glimmer. As the elephants chase me, I dart like a Norway rat. My legs lose quick pace, when mind returns my body......

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Categories: sidelong, dream,
Form: Free verse
We Are Blessed
...I oft' cast a sidelong glance at this woman I love, She's been at my side so long,sent from God above, When I look out at the dawn, I kneel and pray, Thanking God for her presence for just one mor......

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Categories: sidelong, blessing, love,
Form: Rhyme
This Generation of Turtle
...here i am in the flesh no victim levelled in scope 22 catches im cashing not selling the dope i watched the sunrise used to pray sometimes kids thatd played outside tho fate did seem unkind c......

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Categories: sidelong, allegory, bible, encouraging, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Obsession Part 4
...Obsession Part 4 The chill of morning, children yawning, I am tired, the blush of dawning has me feeling ill at ease, my spirit sags, I barely reach the second floor. 'When will you return? Is......

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Categories: sidelong, writing,
Form: Verse

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