Tilts Poems - Poems about Tilts

... Written: May 19, 2025, for contest by Edward Ibeh Quote: "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." By Rumi ......

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...I am the wrench in the clockwork, a tiny twist in the gears of a universe too vast to notice my pinch, yet enough to reroute the cascade— leverage, a quiet conspiracy of small forces. Like a c......

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... It’s Sunday, and I’m drawing myself again, third time this week. This version features a haunted air fryer, a coupon for free emotional labor, and Janice— the shoebill, wearing my ex’s hoodi......

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...Candle glow at midnight The hatch is locked A scrambling splutter As I reach for the key of circles and bolts and lines But just as before The circle ends Four corners behind And I'm scrambl......

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...Candle glow at midnight, The hatch is locked A scrambling splutter As I reach for the key of circles, bolts and lines. But just as before. The circle ends 4 corners behind And I'm scram......

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... Insert the word as an un-churned need, hammer claw it, until a loud sincerity believes in itself. Scarlet rose or Lilly white the erotic hibiscus deceives. That word is a bottle of red......

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...Tomorrow will come today As I look behind to see past my second sight Tomorrow is now as yesterday is future tense I linger in this unknown moment as the universe Tilts on its axis as my mind f......

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... CARPE DIEM the earth tilts winter wilts solstice seizes the day......

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... Grief is an earthquake, sudden and unforgiving, Splitting the ground beneath your feet, Turning the familiar into fractured ruin. It shakes the foundations of who you are, Toppling memories lik......

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...Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane, potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined, at some future stage I......

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...It fell too fast. What could they do? It crumbled the walls. Where could they hide? They look up and see the gaze of this spiraling eye with death inside. Now all that’s left is a broken chair ......

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...I'm pretty impressed with how beautifully the paint peels from the sparkling post box, how grass is iced into uniformity, the edges of leaves highlighted so I can't forget the world is magic......

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... bare the foliage of trees petals crumbling… split from bones ghosts of maples hanging low, ashen backdrop tilts ......

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...the inhibitions fade a slow, deliberate ritual some beautiful mostly terrifying the glass, a chalice cradles the forbidden each drop, a fiery kiss flowing when the world tilts diving into......

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...Up on the Christmas tree, cat paws pause As the tree tilts and eventually falls Ornaments scatter with lots of noise But the furry kitty never loses it’s poise Ho, Ho, Ho animals know Ho, Ho, ......

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