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Upturns Poems - Poems about Upturns

Premium MemberThe watch man

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realms defence launches
dice, reckless soul hoarder
upturns death hourglass...
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Categories: upturns, death,
Form: Free verse

Freesoul

...Beneath the fury of sun
Wades a wobbly nun
Stomping on thorns
Watch the teary ferns

Scars on her skin
Carrying wounds engraved
Curse devious grin
And snakes she once craved

She sucked and...
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Categories: upturns, for teens, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse



Woven

...Beneath the fury of sun
Wades a wobbly nun
Stomping on thorns
Her soul burnt and torn

Scars on her skin
Carried wounds engraved
Trust, her sin
So were snakes she once craved

She sucked an...
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Categories: upturns, betrayal, emotions, time, woman,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberthe collective hubris of our indifference to ants

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We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest rac...
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Categories: upturns, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReechoes of Vertu

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 A-mid shared thoughts, 
shuffled 'cross mortal uncoil,
no central judge; 
choices re-sound, choices spoil.

 Principles form an unspoken pact,
reciprocity in action, a silent (re)act.

 In...
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Categories: upturns, crush, endurance, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Clearing

...The sordid thought thicket thrives 
within the dungeon of the dark mind,
where the web of tormenting roots wriggles,
entangles all the escape routes,
as qualm deconstructs life’s forest path. 

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Categories: upturns, analogy, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEcho Return

...Echo return contoured by consciousness 
Oft ignores our interconnectedness 
Sternest rebuff being indifference 
In a poignant, painful, time stretched silence
Mitigating our innate blissfulness 
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Categories: upturns, innocence, love,
Form: Rondeau

Premium MemberThe Pathless Path

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Ego upturns, so we learn to discern
Urge of mind-body versus cry of soul
For God we yearn, as love for love does burn
In midst of action, playing our life role

Ceasing to weigh an...
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Categories: upturns, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberKundalini

...Ida
Pingala
Sushumna
Or nebula 

Cold breath
Hot breath
No breath
Know breath

Three known channels for the flow
One burns, one cools, one is mellow 
All provide a connected glow
In pris...
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Categories: upturns, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNoises Off

...ducks cluck
     bulls buck
     gnus munch
     bugs buzz
surf 
lulls
   as shrubs bud;
dusk
suns
     cummulus    
     unfurl
curls
uncurl
     tumult
     upturns
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crush
sucumb...
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Categories: upturns, sound,
Form: List

Premium MemberOblivious To Chills

...As mauve of autumn waves her velvet cloak
Each treetop, each leaf upturns a  glazed hue:
That  between dusk and morn, the winds evoke
A  heartbeat tempo of evening’s debut--
Oblivious...
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Categories: upturns, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Ottava rima

The Little Magnetic One

...From stiletto heels to flashy coiffures
  whether in braids, crochets or something new

They never ceased to shimmer in view
  and there, there, these beauts I see...

Three dames a...
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Categories: upturns, baby, beauty, birthday, for
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAcrostic Man: a Collaboration With Ken Duddle

...Form: Acrostic
Don’t walk by,pretend not to see

Outside in the cold is no place to be

Whistle to yourself,think glad it’s not me

No-one can escape their destiny.

 

No-one can prepare ...
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Categories: upturns, adventure, community,
Form: Rhyme

In Quicksand

...It is the truth which 
never was. After many 
deaths I will come to you 
to repeal my verses.

The festering earth was 
making the rains green, 
to suck the dry sands 
thrown by the angry win...
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Categories: upturns, art,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberAcrostic Man

...Don’t walk by,pretend not to see

Outside in the cold is no place to be

Whistle to yourself,think glad it’s not me

No-one can escape their destiny.

 

No-one can prepare for all trials o...
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Categories: upturns, anxiety, depression,
Form: Acrostic

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