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Upended Poems

Oils of mourning upended 3, Rome

Cabs crackling surrender 
Before settings land
Dawns edge working from eve
Her lasting clay 

I'm hear
In class 
To paint
And understand 
My musing
Tara Gendron 
Of Santa Barbara 
I was boring first
Then Tara's recital

Now juliard and exhibition New York

A blind reveal 

Gaeity Opens

It's Aerosmith crazy meeting
 guns n roses don't you cry tonight 


The halo program 
Saint child in

Categories: upended, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

No One Upended

When pressed to take sides
    to 'answer the question'
  To choose is to cause to divide ... 

  The solution, of course
    to no one upend
  is to answer, 'I don't know
    ~ it depends'

Categories: upended, peace, stress,
Form: Rhyme

Living, Upended

walled isolation
     when a relationship hits hurdles
     gripped by the unfamiliar 
     a stillness that caves in on us

our small spoonfuls of conversation lack direction 
      closed pod, defensive
my near muted pleas to break free of holding back

Categories: upended, change, conflict, health, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A World Upended

the rooster slept late
  no hen laid an egg
on vacant street corners
  no transient did beg

the sun beat down early
  not a whisper of breeze
the stench of blue trucks 
  smoke, filth and sleaze

shops shuttered tight
  bars and chains all in place
sidewalks bare and deserted
  no rats ran the

Categories: upended, city, crush, dark, day,
Form: Verse

As It Is To Be

Intended upended
suspended 
upside-down
on trapeze by knees,
is caught, 
catcher-clung
flung over
and righted,
as it is to be

Categories: upended, strength, stress,
Form: Free verse