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Unrooted Poems - Poems about Unrooted


A Roaring Edge
...When, on that craggy moorland verge, you make your stand, body braced against the storms bullying bite; when you permit the squall to sweep your soul awake attending only to th......

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Categories: unrooted, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And Still We Search
...I'll be turning 68 this spring and still looking for a health-wealthy home. This feels remarkably like a younger traveler's game, with less capital-acquisition baggage and toxic furniture and ......

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Categories: unrooted, earth, happiness, health, home,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, Sitting
...So many, maybe millions No, billions. Trillions? Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall of white stars; sandal season squall. Each birch tree here outdoing January's record accumulation. Weeks of h......

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Categories: unrooted, death, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
I See Beautiful
...Beauty, in my eye, yet I do not hold you. Every curve, every contour, every everything. A desire in me, exceeding a need for breath. Undressing my soul with her very existence. That I could cloth......

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Categories: unrooted, beautiful, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
The Barren Tree
...A failure in the placement of the tree; Too small are roots which spread into the soil. At first so perfect,later one can see Its strength unable full life to uncoil. A hidden shame for partly ......

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Categories: unrooted, appreciation, christian, deep, loss,
Form: Sonnet



Idyll of Daybreak Lake
...Dreaming of idyllic forms Puzzle pieces mold as one Imaginary lines unrooted Petty pebbles sink in twilight Then suddenly I’m awake Laying here at daybreak lake. Early enough to see the dew ......

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Categories: unrooted, adventure, change, childhood, imagery,
Form: Ballad
Once a Buyer At the Liar
...he sold a lot from lies he told the same he sold to men of old: for him to sell some lies we tell. Goods like leaves sunburn unrooted Abundance bought to wither sure To lie about my......

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Categories: unrooted, change
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Michael
...Let your spirit soar now. Let it move as tumbleweed unrooted and free to roam. Let your spirit fly now with the freedom of a lark uncaged and ethereal. Gliding on the breeze, or as ......

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Categories: unrooted, people
Form: Free verse

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