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Spindles Poems - Poems about Spindles

Premium MemberMy Perennial Garden

...My perennial garden is peaceful and tranquil
A timeless place of beauty where calmness will instill 
Vibrant blooms emanate sweet and savory scents
No fake or synthetic wafts among the floral pres...
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Categories: spindles, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Rhyme

Shared Torch Lake

...I rock in this outdoor cheap chair
Its cushion foam like ice cream
Half-eaten by the winter mice in storage
I don’t mind

Don’t need a full seat to see before me

The drop off on Torch Lake
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Categories: spindles, earth, father, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse



Writer from Within

...The less
I move my lips at my 4:00 am Saturday morning sessions
The more
These words are trees standing still beside a racing river

A long way away
Freight train bores the night
Moon without ...
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Categories: spindles, journey, silence, solitude, sound,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOde To a Fallen Leaf

...Image by: Kimberlee Baxter
The nonpareil of a a violin plays late into a golden era
its "An Autumnal Farewell, by Debussy"

With magnificent beauty in dazzling colors of dying
she spindl...
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Categories: spindles, appreciation, art, music,
Form: Free verse

Psithurism

...There was a sickly tree

In a barren clearing

In a burning country

On a mourning day.


A wild crown of branches

Haloed by concentric rings;

A rising wave of spires and spindles lash...
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Categories: spindles, extended metaphor, fate, fire,
Form: Elegy



I Word Iceflower

...To the ice, you will not succumb.
Formations of ice crystals
Short furry spindles.

For you to form
It can no longer be warm,

For You to emerge 
The surface must be still without a surge.

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Categories: spindles, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Turbulent

...Blank horizons, desolate space
Oblivion in this place
Grey fibers, blank wonder
Losing its luster
Exhausted dreams, taunted hopelessness
Emptiness in this openness 
Ruptured dreams, fractured s...
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Categories: spindles, anxiety, courage, emotions, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Old Rusty Gate

...That old rusty gate, goes way back in time 
It's body of metal holds memories 
Through the hinges and spindles- Ivy climb 
Almost hidden from the thick leafy trees 

The gate still swings in the...
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Categories: spindles, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet

A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem

...1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums gushing fount of 
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Categories: spindles, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Scary Inheritance

...We were excited by our recent inheritance and decided to move
We packed up and drove to our new home, some family disapproved
We were thrilled, the old Victorian home was everything we wanted
Igno...
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Categories: spindles, dark, house, scary,
Form: Rhyme

I Could Write About the Smile Shared With Dog

...Know that this purr-ing cat
will probably eat my face
how many wings are stored
how many insect spindles
how many bugged ladies
too little buttered flies
not a bad word for the cloud
drizzle d...
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Categories: spindles, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArchaic Like Spindles

...old bookshelves dwindle
        one page holds all ~ big swindle 
                 new hardback kindle


Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann 
Bookshop Poetry Contest
10/3/2021
Syllable counter ...
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Categories: spindles, allusion, analogy, books,
Form: Senryu

The Thingamajig

...D ug it out from under the stairs,
I  knew it would be useful someday.
S aving it I was for future repairs,
C huffed I never threw it away.
A ll in good order as good as new,
R atchets and spind...
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Categories: spindles, humorous,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberWeavers

...weaver’s 
spindle fulls the cloth
teasel



Note: Scottish thistles were once used by weavers as spindles....
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Categories: spindles, appreciation, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberIf It Takes Forever

...drove wife to doctor
counting wheelchair ramp spindles
~waiting for Godot






7/10/2020

My wife smiled at this one.  Or was it a smirk?

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel...
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Categories: spindles, humor, husband, irony, satire,
Form: Senryu

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