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Spindly Poems - Poems about Spindly

misty day
...Misty Day Glancing out of the window, I see the potted plant on the sill and the house on the other side of the road, the light is fading, and the plant looks as sad as a whitewashed wall in t......

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Categories: spindly, absence, adventure, age,
Form: ABC
Premium Member The Slip-ins
... "The Slip-ins" Why should I continue to write these feathery songs, these blanched banjo tomes, these wilting poésies of a lost little life ever circling like a me......

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Categories: spindly, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thinking about Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds
... “The chances against anything manlike on Mars are a million to one,” he said. (Excerpt from the book by H G Wells.) WATCH OUT, run for your lives ...the Martians are coming! Well ......

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Categories: spindly, music, science fiction, space,
Form: Free verse
SATURN GOD OF TIME
...Saturn ! You magnetised with enchanting icy rings promised white gold endless skates on Chrysalis circled cates said we would go round like fairy rings said you had so much Love to give I......

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Categories: spindly, allegory, color, creation, extended
Form: Rhyme
The Horologist
...His fingers—spindly, delicate as a spider’s legs— dart among the gears, tools clink in whispers, sharp and sure. He bends close, breath fogging the polished brass, eyes fixed on the vortex of whe......

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Categories: spindly, metaphor, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Woodland Walks
...pray tell what to do when a tree looks at you with those sullen sunken knotty eyes and then as he flashes those spindly twig lashes and sappy tears when it comes to goodbyes ......

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Categories: spindly, cute, fun, funny, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In the twilight where shadows whisper secrets of forgotten epochs
...In the twilight where shadows whisper secrets of forgotten epochs, An old man stands, a spindly relic of a bygone era, So brittle he could shatter through himself, From crown to root, A cathedral......

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Categories: spindly, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Lament
...I spend my time, staring at the sky jealous of those trees that can reach such great heights I see their spindly branches winding out into the atmosphere I feel the heaviness in my limbs Aren't ......

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Categories: spindly, emotions, grief,
Form: Free verse
From the Bones of the Dead
...The poppies grow where the bodies lie. They grow out of their skulls; Out of bullet holes and discarded limbs— Anything is their home. And in this brutal massacre, A young poppy seed finds solac......

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Categories: spindly, death, flower, remember, remembrance
Form: Free verse
Nature's Sentinel
...In a great, entangled forest, stands a metal monster— An impossibility of nature, made by man. Alone; Broken—it looms over all things natural And asserts its right over the creatures that belong. ......

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Categories: spindly, nature, power,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
...I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks..., (a poor excuse for legs), and get me the latest sophisticated prosthetics advancements, whereat integration of cultured stem cells into custom made......

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Categories: spindly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
...WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS In the delicious womb of all beginnings we learnt to giggle electrons to bear all things without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts warm gurglings of God’s dream......

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Categories: spindly, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
What The Roses Don't Say
...What The Roses Don’t Say by Michael R. Burch Oblivious to love, the roses bloom and never touch ... They gather calm and still to watch the busy insects swarm their leaves ... They sway, bem......

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Categories: spindly, angst, fear, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member enigma Haiku 208
...harvest moon spindly pine tree's darkness silence sleeps 1/13/2024......

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Categories: spindly, autumn,
Form: Haiku
From The Poets Laboratory
...Wings are eyelids. A mind can be left aside on a workbench while the brain teaches the sky to sleep. Mother lives in a jar in an old curiosity shop. Father enters the world bringing extinct wor......

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Categories: spindly, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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