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Topples Poems - Poems about Topples

Premium Member I am a woman, and at dawn, I weave wings of light from threads of dreams
...I am a woman, and at dawn, I weave wings of light from threads of dreams, I step on paths of desires, wearing ribbons of living hope in my hair, I wonder how many stories will cling to my dancing s......

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Categories: topples, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Endgame in Exile
...## I Eleven, Tehran's burning heat— sleeve rolled high against the summer's weight, the Revolutionary Guard's fist finds my face like a question mark carved in flesh. A G3 rifle barrel cold agai......

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Categories: topples, political,
Form: Free verse



Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Winter 2
...Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about winter, cold, rain, rains, frost, frosts, snow, snowflakes, wind, children, childhood, hail, hail stones, winter life. Mushroom-gathering, rushi......

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Categories: topples, childhood, children, life, rain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member TARGET PRACTICE SHOOTING MY LARGE TREES IN LARGE PLANTERS
...FEAR NOT THE BULLET HOLES LEFT INSIDE MY LARGE PLANTS AS MY NEIGHBOR ENJOY DRINKING A COLD BEER SITTING WITH HIS DOG LICK WAITING ON A TIME TO KILL I CALLED THEM MY JAN 6 NEIGHBORS BECAUSE THEY CRUS......

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Categories: topples, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Death Stale Symphony Discount
... Written: April 14, 2025 for contest sponsored by Brian Strand ****************** The subject matter of this poem explores themes of transience, intersection of life and death, ......

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Categories: topples, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member DOMINOES
... When I was young I loved opening a new box of dominoes from the store and setting them up in different patterns all across the floor. After setting up every domino in the box…every domino…one a......

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Categories: topples, love,
Form: Rhyme
Save Me From Myself
... {"It’s 4:05 pm, darkness is mending over the horizon, the city, I’m fighting and thrashing against the flames that shroud. With secrets yet to resign, they dwindle at nightly dusk as it topples ove......

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Categories: topples, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sheep, Sheep a Wandering
...Stray sheep play hide-and-seek Knit one, Purl one, Knit Two together Pick up a stitch, before it slips, and runs Intertwining it, lest the pattern unravels and the wayward flock topples over the ......

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Categories: topples, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted House
...We suspect the house is haunted by ghosts, Who welcome guests to stay with them as hosts. They love it when you come and play along, To their creepy charade, and karaoke song. The sound effects......

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Categories: topples, song, sound, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SO SIMPLE
... Apples, apricot, blackberries, biscuits Children ! Cheese cake, donuts, dozen drumsticks Enjoy eating : Food for friends - fellow , fun ! Got guava- grap......

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Categories: topples, absence, children,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Lazy James
... Young James always appears to be lazy. Due to inertness, his mind gets hazy. To the pool, he makes a tread. Into it, he dips his head. Losing his grip, he topples. How crazy! ......

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Categories: topples, crazy, fun,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I'm searching for a poetry that’s a hotbed of immense danger
...I'm searching for a poetry that’s a hotbed of immense danger, A spell that unleashes deep fear into every soul. I want poetry that shakes the universe of old ideas, Banned in bookstores, sites, an......

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Categories: topples, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Unlikely Mike, for Michael Jackson
...Unlikely Mike by Michael R. Burch I married someone else’s fantasy; she admired me despite my mutilations. I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine. I hid my face and changed its conno......

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Categories: topples, blue, divorce, dream, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Harmony of Life's Calabash
...In the calabash of life, a profound journey unfolds as the space gracefully passes the baton in the art of apprenticeship. Success resonates like a fine chant, akin to the resonance of the......

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Categories: topples, africa, creation, culture, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THESE HOLIDAYS
...These holidays, like a whirlwind romance…can’t catch my breath. Hustle and bustle of parties and gifts. Figuring it all out, the list, counting it at least twice. Birthday parties piled up, tissue pa......

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Categories: topples, holiday,
Form: Haibun

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