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Upturn Poems - Poems about Upturn

Premium MemberStrength to Bounce Back

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                                      Strength to Bounce Back

                             Battered by the blast of a cruel storm
                               Incited by wild woeful wobblin...
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Categories: upturn, heartbroken, inspirational, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberkicking the can to the curb-

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Play a little diddle
Fet me some
Play a little diddle
Fer me come on boy

Give me some of that ole raz a ma taz
Play me some beat give me jazz
Air check backbeat block chords Fus...
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Categories: upturn, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Lyric



Premium MemberA Giving Tree

...A course-correction knife was plunged too late.
A smile was still, upon her lips, that date.

Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green.
Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are see...
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Categories: upturn, imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Premium MemberThought of the day

...benign bliss burn churning mind-body urn ~
causes conditioned beliefs to upturn

as God’s benedictions pour down like rain ~
doing nothing we ascend without strain...
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Categories: upturn, blessing, god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberZealots

...Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
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Categories: upturn, angst,
Form: Haibun



Premium MemberPage

...To turn a new page,
mind battles we wage 
must rest,
whence love centre-stage
stops fears to outrage 
soul’s nest.
We thus come of age,
as we disengage
thoughts stressed.

With desires addr...
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Categories: upturn, desire, fear, god, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Gray Horizon

...Besieged souls fight up their way 
against a pile of bodies in lay. 
Hearts tremble in disarray 
as the horizon turns to gray. 

On the ground, the children scream 
as the quake shatters their ...
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Categories: upturn, death, dedication,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberReverse Midas Touch

...Sadim touch, I must say. Is this upturn, yet, bad?
Didn't Midas' touch become, ultimately, sad...?

Not being greedy - is the moral of Midas,
Yet, isn't the Midas episode an eidos...?

What did...
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Categories: upturn, grief,
Form: Couplet

Happy Day of the Year

...Be the beauty that dwell to spread, 
For all to share colorful moments. 
Be the cheers that spring to yield, 
Good laughter to birth inner peace. 

Let crudeness not teach beauty's value, 
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Categories: upturn, age, appreciation, birthday, brother,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Truth

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Scriptures affirm truth of oneness
There being but one consciousness 
High time now we solve this life quiz
Wisdom revealed in deep stillness 

Knowing then that God alone is
Mean...
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Categories: upturn, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberNo One Listens

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No one listens, although ear hears
Frigid minds, so brittle
We feel not bliss, that heart endears
See how habits whittle

We don’t learn, till we burn
Stewing in pathways stern
T...
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Categories: upturn, introspection, muse,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOur Pulse Quickens

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Our pulse quickens in quietude
Stillness ushers rapture 
Childlike wonderment attitude
That mind cannot capture 

Invite joy, let bliss burn 
Time’s now, to fear upturn
Erasing t...
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Categories: upturn, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAshtavakra Gita Verse 13:2

...13.2
“The body is strained by practices
The tongue tires of scripture
The mind numbs with meditation
Detached from all this,
I live as I am”


The matrix of in-form body co...
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Categories: upturn, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHow Aware Are We

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Dreams recollected, in state of waking
Our free will therein active, to discern
No memory of waking whilst dreaming

Our acts in waking state thus enabling
Life lessons we graduall...
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Categories: upturn, dream, life, muse,
Form: Villanelle

Fear

...The fear is quite irksome
It foods you from within
It is lethal than death
It is inflexible to digest
Fear crushes all happiness
Fear digest all sorrow
Fear kills away all emotions
Sadness shy...
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Categories: upturn, angst, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse

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