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Up Poems - Poems about Up

When the Sun Forgot to Sleep
The sun arose with reckless cheer, And burned away the last of fear— No clock could chain the golden skies, No rule could still the fireflies. Bare feet chased dreams down alleyways, As time dissolved in honeyed haze. The world, unbuttoned, sang out loud— A symphony without a crowd. The madness bloomed in fields of flame, Where poppies whispered each one’s name. The trees danced...

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Categories: up, beach, black love, cheer
Form: Rhyme
Running in Vain
Misty paths darkened the way, Better days, it seems are too far away. Want to escape, want to run away. But the ticking clock doesn't sway. The mist doesn't fade away. Running and running until my feet hurt But can they see? My pain remains hiding in the dust At one point after the pain, a question...

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Categories: up, angst, anxiety, desire, growing
Form: Blank verse



Filler'er-Up Joe
Joe works the gas station, they still do full serve, tops you off with a big grin, if you wait your turn. Chats with all the tourists, shows them where to go, that’s why everyone in town calls him Fill’er-up Joe. Fill’er-up Joe, whoa, whoa, whoa, Fill’er-up Joe, don’t go slow, folks need gas, don’t you know, they’ll all come back for another go. Works the bar for night shifts, only one...

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Categories: up, fun, life, light, men,
Form: Rhyme
Giving Up Their Motherhood
If mothers didn't bear children, laughter would turn into monotony: can we imagine mankind's misery? No infant would cry when they are hungry, no noisy kids screaming and having fun! Wouldn't God be mad at us, calling us evil, selfish beings? Wouldn't empty cribs not be rocked while a sweet lullaby is not whispered? A mother's duty is to bear healthy children, God gave his...

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Categories: up, blessing, children, devotion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When thoughts go dark
In my mind skies can be blue thoughts can swirl and whirl and take an unexpected turn feeling like I've consumed a witch's brew Just when I think there'll be no end I find the perfect spot under the sun to drop off what feels like a megaton and soak in that sunshine before I call a friend AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on...

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Categories: blue, cheer up, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Fragrant Grenades -
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Categories: cheer up, humor,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member streams of mud
streams of mud we played in shallow streams of muck where there was no black, no white we were all mud-packed kids crusty-skinned little boys who knew the sludge would wash away when we dipped into the stream and splashed one another to reveal brown skin or pink touch football followed the mud spackling on a grass field with stone markers and oak trees with...

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Categories: up, black love, childhood, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Have Never Known True Love
Every whisper fades to silence, Every touch a fleeting lie. I search for meaning in their gazes, But love has never met my eye. They take my trust, they take my kindness, Turn my soul into their game. A pawn upon their twisted chessboard, A heart consumed by...

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Categories: betrayal, break up, character,
Form: Free verse
Little Dot
I stand alone, my hands held tight, To a secret blooming in the quiet night. Two weeks, just two, and yet it’s clear, A tiny life, a spark of fear. I whisper softly to my growing heart, A little dot that’s just the start. A tiny soul. I cannot see, But I feel the weight of what could be. The world outside feels...

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Categories: anger, baby, break up,
Form: Bio
EMOTIONAL SHRAPNEL
EMOTIONAL SHRAPNEL Once that argument fuse has been lit One waits for that inevitable explosion The blast summoning the first emotion But so painful after the shrapnel has hit One feels as if life has been torn apart And little comfort that one might find It’s someone digging deep in the mind With rubble sent directly to the heart The shrapnel is all...

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Categories: betrayal, break up, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1972
It was the year I became a free spirit no longer a child with needs now a teenager with wants I went everywhere with my ghettoblaster to listen to the hits of the day and the music of the seventies was fabulous Newfound freedom ran through my veins I felt different and there was no going back posted on May 6, 2025...

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Categories: freedom, growing up, music,
Form: Free verse
Knowledge's Burdens
Knowledge is to hold burdens - messages no medicine can cure. Pains no pills can palliate. Fears no fumes could fumigate. It's no wonder the older I grow, the more I know, the harder it is to endure...

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Categories: growing up, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Vacation Time
My vacation time is great. Sleep Walk talk and ate. Thinking threw my thoughts. Meeting Greeting. others me..Giving love from within.Oh! ..What fun talking to some they are making me laugh. New ones expressions.a so sweet loving faith. Looking back food for thought. To reflex on me people places and things wait! To reflex on what is and what is...

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Categories: up, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Never Empty
Maybe they just want to take, and all I want is to give. Yet their jar never filled, and mine never emptied. However, I've still got a lot to give: to the little souls, to the struggling hands, and to the heats needing kindness. So whether or not they stop taking more, I'm never going to quit giving. Maybe their rule of life is taking, but...

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Categories: up, 12th grade, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sharita loves Make Up
Sharita was running out of make up on this strange night She had put turquoise and purple in her hair all right Her eyelids were painted a lovely grayish blue with dazzle I need more make-up she said, so I can dazzle razzle When most people are getting ready to go to bed Sharita is painting her hair, and painting...

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Categories: up, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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