Meadow Butterfly
...The butterfly, its crimson mottled wings
flitting in the delicate Autumn breeze;
uncurled proboscis taking sweet nectar
from early dawns, newly opened daisies
does not regard the corpses of the m...
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Categories:
uncurled, beauty, death, life, violence,
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken, Yet Love Remains
..."I'm not sure if the love that brought us together
was worth the pain that tore us apart." ~ Boomsumo.com
I have to unlearn what some label 'love'
not the kind that coos like a turtle d...
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Categories:
uncurled, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Birds
...Birds can glide high above the sky,
They see everything and can see through a lie
They can go up up and high,
And can always go faster than a fly.
Birds nest where predators can’t rest,
Fight ...
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Categories:
uncurled, 9th grade, analogy, bird,
Form: Free verse
If
...If it be lunatics rule half this world
And power mad despots tread where they please
If tyrant’s fists raised, leave no toe uncurled
And civilised nations fail to appease
If Reds share handsha...
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Categories:
uncurled, conflict, destiny, war,
Form: Sonnet
The Alchemy of Peace
...In halls where knowledge blooms, a seedling grows,
A tender shoot of peace midst tomes and chalk.
Through corridors of learning, empathy flows,
As minds unlock the power of kind talk.
Yet violenc...
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Categories:
uncurled, education,
Form: Free verse
Darkness and Light
...A dark soul long immersed in a grey world
Awakened to a spirit’s shining beam
And foolishly presumed as he uncurled
His destiny was to possess her gleam.
The dark youth’s folly then w...
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Categories:
uncurled, dark, life, light, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Undeceived
...Just let it go.’ Easier said than gone -
‘You’ll be nothing without me, says pain,
‘I’m your identity.’ Well,
listen up, old man of the sea,
she’s dislodged you, uncurled
her spine from the bu...
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Categories:
uncurled, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful
..."Everything holds a tinge of beauty, something unique,
but not everyone recognizes something beautiful."
~ by poet
Some of th...
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Categories:
uncurled, beautiful,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Involved
...* CONTENT WARNING: This poem is about physical abuse. *
~
eyes, down ...
at my yellow polo,
red spatters
so evenly placed that
they look unnatural -
as if printed,
but unfinished ....
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Categories:
uncurled, abuse, angst, bullying, people,
Form: Free verse
A Different Distance
...A DIFFERENT DISTANCE
In the depth of my dreams I proceed
On a winding path to a mystical place
Although each world is mostly new
There’s always some hint of similarity
Joyful and scary aim to...
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Categories:
uncurled, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Olde Country Fair
...The old county faIr
Six times on the Ferris wheel
A three dog night
A sudden shower
Run for cover or shiver
Uncurled ringlets laugh
A tiny trophy
A water pistol winner
Clutched in sle...
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Categories:
uncurled, america, celebration, family, independence
Form: Senryu
Special Places
...I come here to find my place in the world
By the clear water of the brook
Where I’m captured as I take a look
At gurgling falls and leaves floating uncurled
I come here to find my place in the ...
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Categories:
uncurled, nature, peace, water,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Blowing Bubbles
...Does each bubble contain an unseen world,
unfurled in a child's fantasy?
A brief time of childish alchemy
in which magic is uncurled,
until finally it is whirled
away in adult finality!
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Categories:
uncurled, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
He Lives In Us
...Imagine if you will a man
who has given himself to the world
he's endless in his beginnings
and left time for all uncurled
He's known to many as a savior
he gave his life without pause
his on...
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Categories:
uncurled, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
What Freedom Was
...There was a time when freedom lived
She reached all parts of the world
Like a soft wind
Leaving the minds uncurled
She was bold and proud
People expressed their love to her aloud
All of her...
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Categories:
uncurled, america, freedom, future, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
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