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Taproot Poems - Poems about Taproot

Twisted Pine
...Formed from the sinew Of the twisted pine That bends to the wind On the mountainside In the summer glare And the winter snows Where the temper flares Where the temper cools – And in strengt......

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Categories: taproot, analogy, growth, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Habitat
...Young pines plucked from a meadow do not go without a fight; If you listen, you can hear the taproot groan, underground and out of sight. Woodland critters mourn the loss of their habitat now ......

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Categories: taproot, nature,
Form: Rhyme



The Pendulum of My Consciousness
...'Helpless' is an adjective I never thought my hand would write to describe the despair that's wound its way deep inside my heart. Honestly, I'm only the catalyst of my own life, the taproot that ......

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Categories: taproot, angst, conflict, how i
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Wake
...We placed a pine box casket on a sawhorse table. There weren’t but little notice, did as best we able. I watched the flowers wilting in the heat of August. It seemed a shameful squander given what......

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Categories: taproot, allegory, irony,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Hot Yoga Chick
...She’s a switchblade, blackjack, Knuckle-duster dame. Got the proper block and tackle, Lash your rigging to the frame. She put the drill press to your taproot And the grindstone to your saber. G......

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Categories: taproot, allegory, women,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Inklings
...Shadows are but sign posts, fleeting moment capsules, brown leaf portent creeper‘s auto-pilot, tarpaulin-sky mist draped on ancient chapel spire, worship at the coat tail of a wrinkled orange r......

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Categories: taproot, analogy, art, august, character,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Who Am I, Really--
...Who am I, really? I want to explore my taproot I am h-o-m-o sapiens, by gender, one of those males A protestant of the Christian faith, entirely moot, A writer of many sermons, stories, poems, an......

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Categories: taproot, father, friend, identity, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Blood of Jee-Sus
...More popularity enjoys than medicine And often voiced by a sickly Harrison Towering above tablets and injections As it battles with flu and sister infections. Every illness shaking its taproot,......

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Categories: taproot, religion,
Form: Rhyme
What I Want You To Be
...I am just a tree So be my taproot Not leaves that fall When seasons shoot Their bullets of fall I am just a man So be my life Not a wife that flees When things strike Like stings of bees ......

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Categories: taproot, friendship, giving, meaningful, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Is of God
...By Dawne Zacharias The sexual roles have been reversed, woman now lead the home, men follow. Men, Can you return and become in all righteousness, the leader of the home, an effective father, a ......

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Categories: taproot, appreciation, brother, devotion, father,
Form: Free verse
Bye Bye Love
...Bye bye love - say hello to my new goodbye. Once I was emanating my soul to your soul, but now it's driven straight into my deep taproot. You're a stain that can't be scrubbed up anymore.......

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Categories: taproot, emotions, heartbroken, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Afraid There's No Denyin'
...I fatten 'neath the topsoil's healthy moat So pregnant with the surge of life, anew And busting through my heavy overcoat My first leaf juts the mantle, craving d......

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Categories: taproot, beauty, flower, metaphor, spring,
Form: Personification
64 Years
...64 YEARS ~~~*~~~ 64 years, from puberty to the present. 64 years, I have witnessed mans ignorance! 64 years, of each other, cultures, colour, and creeds. 64 years, of no res......

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Categories: taproot, abuse, conflict, leadership, political,
Form: Concrete
Doubt
...How the seasons change, my friend! I found myself today, admitting what I might have done, had fate not clogged the way. And, truly, I have always thought, that much escapes control. Yet, I ......

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Categories: taproot, angst, hope, introspection, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Promise To You
...Chorus X 2 I wish you smell the cologne of my intentions I wish you hear the piercing rhythms of my heart I wish you see the torment of your short absence and also to feel the weight of my......

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Categories: taproot, i love you, love,
Form: Lyric

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