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Undersides Poems - Poems about Undersides


Premium Member Song of The White Willow No 6: AABB
...Venture advances, the future ... occurs, the White Willow trees, best found by rivers edge. Salix alba, and 'Tristis' means sad, hence, 'Weeping', yet the essence seems to add a picturesque of a ......

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Categories: undersides, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Song of The Peacock Butterfly No 6: AABB
...Assures their breed a place among unknowns, lest Europe and Asia part of their realms. Peacock Butterfly, hues-full Inachis, their uppermost topsides reveal truth bids, yet undersides are black-l......

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Categories: undersides, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Such Fun Back In '61
...The undersides of school chairs all gooey with gum We thought it such fun back in sixty-one In sixty-two we tore fruit loops from the backs of girls' shirts The innocent way we f......

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Categories: undersides, fun, kiss, nostalgia, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Sides
...The Laurels in my garden line the fence, resplendent in their leaves of vivid green, the undersides are coloured less intense and on the gentle days, they hang unseen. But, come the fiercer wind ......

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Categories: undersides, character,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Frenzied Symphony
...From evening's very ground it seems gathering swelling sounds waves crescendo-ing, grandeur... appear the first colors on the horizon streaks of magenta lighting up undersides of slate-gr......

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Categories: undersides, color, music, sky,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member The Nightmare Sleeps
...THE NIGHTMARE SLEEPS saliva drips off perfect white, gleaming white, false fangs. blood would fill, his full moon night. breathless he sleeps, bone-straight, crossed arms. deep-brown rings ......

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Categories: undersides, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Storm In June
...A crack of thunder splits a humid June sky, shattering into millions of tiny droplets to the the ground a desperately needed respite from the early summers heat. I belonged out here I knew this ......

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Categories: undersides, june, storm,
Form: Free verse
Le Drizzle Aleaf
...The enchanted forest Of Le Drizzle Aleaf, Where trees become giants And the roots become feet, And the sky is distorted By foliage sheets Overlapping in rhythmic Melody with the breeze. And ......

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Categories: undersides, absence, corruption, creation, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: Live With the Borrowed Lives Made By Your Own Mistakes
...Villanelle: Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes A stranger to your stricken selves a tenant in your body Disown not t......

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Categories: undersides, courage,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Busy Neighbors
...Two birds - sleek ebony, with tinge of blue, undersides of red and dotted tails - dart when I step out of my back door. Circling overhead, they soar. I’d like a closer look at them, to find their ne......

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Categories: undersides, bird,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Slip Jig Spring
...The brook claps over the tumbled rock bed applauding the Spring thaw like a gaggle of Irish revelers; setting the man high marsh grass to dance a slip jig in the bonnie breeze. Returning Can......

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Categories: undersides, nature
Form: Free verse
Noon Thunderstorm
...patch of blue sky behind acacia foliage turns ominously black, winds wail, winds blow, impatient, agitated, flipping up undersides of shaken leaves; deluge comes, crack and dazzle, ripping......

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Categories: undersides, nature
Form: Free verse
Unsocial
...Step silent, listen for the sizzle-slither of a sister snake who listens soft for me, slides among stones, subsides to undersides of shadows, striking soundless sinuous as S, then......

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Categories: undersides, animals, nature, sister,
Form: Alliteration
You (In So Many Words)
...Broken glass tiles for your smile Conch shell ears in pearly pink Onyx mirror windows for your eyes Butter yellow ribbons for your hair Raw bamboo still green make up your arms Sailor's knots ......

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Categories: undersides, life, nature, people,
Form: Free verse

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