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Upland Poems - Poems about Upland

Premium Member Surreality: NEW
...Here I am, Shake & Bake in the Far Out West where they now smoke down and out, their new front yards as Lava Lady is Liquid Dating our backyards getting her d......

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Categories: upland, analogy, appreciation, change, death,
Form: Personification
this time of the year
...This time of the year again She has gone shopping for gifts to give the young she would not take me along, knows I would be grumpy and sarcastic and impatient. I sat on the plaza with a glass o......

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Categories: upland, birth, birthday, car, cat,
Form: Blitz



Premium Member Nero, The Incendiary
...Hail, the doorway keen on the known world ... theme wails attention, time of roses' blooms cower ... usurped magentas, aloof maroons, for the flight of the gossamers ... assume benefits......

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Categories: upland, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sijo
The Walker
...The Walker Sometimes, there is a sense that the road doesn't roll out further, there is no vista of a highland or a slow-running river of sweet water to lazily swim while remembering Marilyn i......

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Categories: upland, absence, blessing, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Coastal Ghosts
...Coastal ghosts Out of the foam when a mighty wave crashed ashore came a pair of transparent horses flying mane of course They were last seen galloping upland where the mist was settl......

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Categories: upland, absence, abuse, allusion, farm,
Form: Hybronnet



Coastal Ghosts
...Coastal ghosts Out of the foam when a mighty wave crashed ashore came a pair of transparent horses flying mane of course They were last seen galloping upland where the mist was settl......

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Categories: upland, absence, abuse, allusion, farm,
Form: Hybronnet
Green Roads
...The hills are running with deer and there are sunlit roads in the sky. Fresh and wide-eyed is the wind, it swirls like a dervish dancer. Its good that I have this ghost-dog to lick my hand. I......

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Categories: upland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Swift River
...My Love, how she laughs! And brims with delight As she breezes along The sun in her lap – A glittering pose Becomes her, just so In her whimsical hues And idling flows And when she sighs ......

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Categories: upland, longing, love, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
In the Valley of Light and Dark
...An upland valley where sunlight runs upon rippling grasses. Spirit, dressed in motley camouflage, pirouettes, scanning dark cliff tops, its light quickened by the press. of looming shadows. ......

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Categories: upland, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Love of a Sandpiper
...I watch fascinated at its teetering stance, bobbing up and down, picking at small insects that infest the lonely loch, that it chooses instead of upland streams or creeks or fast-flowing rive......

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Categories: upland, appreciation, bird,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Word Strokes
...Nestled woodland, leaves on line, thick, straight, and curving. Mounded upland, forms eternal, Rounded, angled, and yielding. Circled valley, meadows, fields, shapes, and pathways win......

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Categories: upland, beauty, creation, earth, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The River Mystery
...Dry river mystery The river in the domestic landscape was not as big as it used to be, for years, the rain upland fell sparsely when the hot summer came, the river dried up. The river bed was......

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Categories: upland, angst, august, corruption,
Form: Free verse
The Past Is a Thought Away
...The past is a thought. The coastal fishing town in Peru was charming its upland was bare and light brown, with roads looking like scars caused by a triple Bye-Pass. The sky was enormous, the b......

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Categories: upland, best friend, blessing, creation,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Snatching Straws
...Snatching straws falling tilting precariously through notice toward doom inverted caricatures of marionettes shine & community supports & grips ......

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Categories: upland, analogy, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Other
Autumn Light
...Autumn light Softly they walk on a day in October The old man and sunlight among olive trees Planted when his grandfather was young. On the track hove marks from sheep That walk here daily o......

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Categories: upland, absence, best friend, devotion,
Form: Free verse

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