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Sunshade Poems - Poems about Sunshade

Frozen side of the sun

...The sun having a frozen side~
  a wish like a snowball in hell,
or netting the wind while oceans b o i l
  in  f i r e. 
The rage of its heat needs curtailing.

  I'm melting...
like chocolate...
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Categories: sunshade, extended metaphor, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStreets of Solitude

..."Streets of Solitude, losing your way behind fogged glass of bliss, a journey to reality." Quote by poet

Away from mental incessant chatter,
A walk in solace away from the world,
Off time, a sen...
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Categories: sunshade, absence, mental health,
Form: Rhyme



Senses

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   Sunlight and shadows
   White clouds drifting by
   An old apple tree
   Birds of a feather
   Scavenging windfalls.

   Barefeet on grass
   Cool leather seat
   Glass table top
   Sun...
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Categories: sunshade, bird, how i feel,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Premium MemberAir

...Title 3/ Air
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Live in the sunshine:

As the air strolls neath the elaborate branches 
Weaving between dreams of th...
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Categories: sunshade, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSpring

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Awaken to citrine sky as   
Birds are heaven bound 
Canvas rich true complementary colors spun.
Delight sensation of sweet scent does tease,
Enchanting pink sunshade trees intertwine
Fervo...
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Categories: sunshade, spring,
Form: ABC



And Heaven Is Here

...A book of verses underneath the bough,
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness—
Oh, wilderness were paradise enow.

(Omar Khayyam’s (1048-1131 CE) well-known ...
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Categories: sunshade, heaven, poetry,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberUmbrellas

...I could find in all of my short childhood,
No umbrellas around our neighborhood;
Farm-workers used palm leave woven structures,
That resembled head-gears said in scriptures...!

Our school lay l...
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Categories: sunshade, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Sun In the Square

...one waiter
ten tables
a sunshade and chair

a small cup
strong coffee
the sun in the square.

the fountain
a church door
the white heat and glare

graffitti
neat flowers
the sun in the ...
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Categories: sunshade, imagery, sun,
Form: Imagism

The Weather Don'T Ask Me

...THE WEATHER? DON’T ASK ME

There won’t be a cloud in the sky today,
But don’t get too complacent.
The weather’s coming from the north
And storm clouds are adjacent.

My job us...
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Categories: sunshade, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAmid Cherry Blossoms

...She strolls neath the sherry sunshade trees.
Serene, the start of sown spring, slumber sate scene.
Steadfast, striking, whimsical, white 
swans swim, mid melding of cherry blossoms.
She's spellbo...
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Categories: sunshade, solitude, spring,
Form: Verse

Hypocrisy

...The adulterous housewife
point fingers 
at the prostitute down the street

How sluggish is the tortoise 
said the snail
yet slow in her own little shell

The toad has no stool to offer
who p...
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Categories: sunshade, judgement,
Form: Free verse

The Kalahari

...The Kalahari 


Kneaded clay
Form creases 
The thirst of desert  
blinding dust and wind 
Collide of wave and tide 

Females carry the tribe 
Their large flappy ears 
Fan them cool 
Muddy...
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Categories: sunshade, africa, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Walk In Solitude

...A walk-in solitude, putting one foot
over the other, stepping over roots
to listen to the flutes of nature lutes
and silent subtle shift that are afoot.

Away from mental incessant chatter,
sol...
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Categories: sunshade, nature, peace, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

On Death

...Departures!
We are all departing,
Beings of departure belonging to no one
And we lack all the knowledge of it
From the first day we came,
Our aim has been to move on,
To reach our goals. 
Enou...
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Categories: sunshade, analogy, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberDreams Hued In Cherry Blossoms

...She walks underneath the pink sunshade trees
dressed in flowing antique white bridal gown.
Un-dissuaded heart, to laugh, love, a peace 
drawn to fragments of leaves rustling around.

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Categories: sunshade, dream, love, spring,
Form: Sonnet

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