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Slanting Poems - Poems about Slanting

Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future: A Traveller Arrives in Arezzo
...The sun on this September afternoon is not quite what it might have been in June, but hot enough. My barman’s chatting on, while somewhere, some lopsided carillon is clanging tunelessly. I’m in t......

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Categories: slanting, future, remember,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Rain
... DORMANT DREAMS, INTENSE - THEIR YEARNINGS The night has erupted in a thunderous bedlam. As it comes crashing, an unrelenting downpour, volcanic its intensity, lashing out its love......

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Categories: slanting, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Fresh Catch-In Memoriam
...Dust shrouds the peeling varnish on the old church pew as Noah (first of his namesake, last of his namesake) thumbs an overripe orange in his patchwork coat pocket. The preacher, made an obelisk ......

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Categories: slanting, america, bible, christian, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sun's Mandate
...The sun, a brass gong, a brassy, blazing command, it wakes the world, with a fiery, golden hand. The air, a hesitant breath, in a nascent, cool embrace, now exhales, warming with the sun's g......

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Categories: slanting, day, earth, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Poets Meet Collaboration
... What do you see when you see trees? My eyes travel each trunk and branch. With feathered leaves in blowing breeze till the chipper comes with a cranch! Your details shine with luminesce......

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Categories: slanting, feelings, fun, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Two Poets Meet Collaboration
...What do you see when you see trees? My eyes travel each trunk and branch. With feathered leaves in blowing breeze till the chipper comes with a cranch! Your details shine with luminescenc......

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Categories: slanting, death, humor, love, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member Another Fine Spring Day
...Another fine spring day gently dying, Subtle variegated colors and Tender vivid greens are dappled now With golden flecks and dollops of buttery sunlight. Shadows begin their mysterious, meticulo......

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Categories: slanting, appreciation, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raining In Summer
... The charcoal cloud miasmic, melts in the ashen scorched sky, summer drizzle descends with the fascinating flotilla that floats in the arid air. The seeping spectrum of the setting scarl......

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Categories: slanting, analogy, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers Skyline
... Written: May 20, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell  splendid summer shoreli......

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Categories: slanting, solitude, summer,
Form: Alliteration
Time's Relentless Hands
...Time's relentless hands cast their shadows On a middle-aged woman in a lonely corner of her room She drapes her shawl around her shoulders, And there she sits covered in sheets of memories where......

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Categories: slanting, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
...I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change, Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged. Studying the said effects on the biosph......

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Categories: slanting, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Temple of the Butterfly
...I am the void I am the wrath I am the undulating sun seraph In the temple of the butterfly The shadow is my alibi ~moths, in rooms full of angles circle, languishing slow as death caugh......

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Categories: slanting, death, humanity, silence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Homeless in the Rain
...The sky, heavy-laden with curdled black clouds, Burst wide open, and all night long it rained. It pitter-pattered on the panes, And rattling on the slanting roofs. It churned the dry soil to a pu......

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Categories: slanting, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Quenching of the Spirit
... While sitting there with my soul being fed, That sweet, tongued preacher preaching over my head My mind slanting......

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Categories: slanting, christian, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Red Train 3 the Christmas Muse
...Outside my window the glimpse of a twinkling muse sprinkling little bits of imagination into my soul. I espy a little Reindeer prancing in the deep, deep woods. Slanting my eyes ......

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Categories: slanting, christmas,
Form: Narrative

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