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Straight Line Poems - Poems about Straight Line


Assume Nothing of Storms
For an hour Cicadas saw at the early August evening While thunder purrs as kittens In the yarn of dark clouds balled up out west over Ionia County Trees prepare their umbrellas The Tigers on TV swing away in the 3rd inning A good book in hand Then out of hand A den of lions-wind roars outside our patio window Devours the screens I jump...

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Categories: straight line, age, creation, environment, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Never a Straight Line
Life is never a straight line Full of twists and turns and detours What an fantastic exciting ride it is As above the clouds we soar Wishing the joy will never end A lifetime of love and happiness If you're among the fortunate ones Among those continually blessed Not sure “sad” is the proper word To describe those less fortunate souls Maybe it's just that...

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Categories: straight line, life, love,
Form: Quatrain



A Straight Line
Breath in a second Forsaken,heart misses beats Boiling point of my soul Reaches optimum. Dancing lines on the monitor At inauspicious time Tends to a long curve Oxygen blowing directly to heart Fail to ignite The long curve ends As a straight line. In fortitude I feel a flame In rotatory motion slips Into air. From the crane-shot I see them panic stricken. Those that seen Those that kept to heart Words and...

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Categories: straight line, death,
Form: Free verse
Straight Line Is a Curve
Straight line is a curve We strike two nails to bury themselves in the wood. We tie a thread around each and form a tight string between them, our basis for making a straightedge and we make a casting machine for other things to emulate its linearity. But there is no such thing as straight line for it extends indefinitely and is bent by cosmic forces, and it...

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Categories: straight line, religion, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Straight Line Winds
Incessant straight line winds, assail us from the East and as all good sailors know, are good for neither Man nor Beast The winds that are visiting us, like unwanted visitors from afar Stay with us, both day and night, their unwelcome presence never hidden It has one wishing for them to leave. wishing upon Winter's Northern star. Under forty...

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Categories: straight line, introspection, life, nature, seasons
Form: Free verse



Untitled #186 / Life's a Straight Line
Maybe I’m going too far? Nah, life’s a straight line and those who get the furthest are then exalted the highest...

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Categories: straight line, confusion, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse

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