The World is in a Whirl
The world is in a whirl
whizzing its way along
Topsy-turvy, turvy-topsy
straight lines all curvy
What is asked from us
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Categories:
whirl, change, silence, technology, truth,
Form: Rhyme
sufi whirl
sufi sun
at center
rumi trance
joyful earth
divine love
mystic daze
subtle sound
dizzy beats
rhythm control
floating floor
giddy dance
ego spins
repeat turn
sway slowly
receive grace
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Categories:
whirl, dance,
Form: Tristich
Whirl Peas
Blending spherical
green orbital mental thots
with a pea for brains.
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Categories:
whirl, silly, wisdom,
Form: Senryu
Weaving Worlds With Words
Words, like a gentle breeze, can whisper untold tales,
Carrying secrets through meadows and rustling in sails.
They can build winding sentences with clauses that flow,
Connecting ideas where knowledge can grow.
But words can also storm with righteous might,
Unleashing emotions that set wrongs to the right.
They can twist and turn with a poet's keen art,
Creating unseen worlds that
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Categories:
whirl, poetry, poets, words, world,
Form: Free verse
The Whirl of Time
When I was young
I attempted to keep pace with it,
I felt its arms,
sometimes cool,
sometimes as a fool
go round me;
it felt wonderful
at the beginning,
but later,
when I stepped into old age
I completely got the fact
Not to love but destroy me
And as many say and said
“ C’est la vie”
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Categories:
whirl, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Gleaming Sphere Reap the Whirl
Wind lowers it's head-stream, earthbound,
battle helmet of direction-secured.
True Hermes holding a riddled scroll, temperature, tempered, phalanx wall to litmus count the cull.
Non-relative incomings from the garment of space,
to run obscene into the street.
Wrinkles of Gaia indecent without cream,
hydration,
epiderm reactions, boils,
face cracking on bout of gout.
The royal trees and their
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Categories:
whirl, art,
Form: Free verse
Whirl of Wisdom for Knowing
How is it that you know it?
A spark, a flash, a sudden thought,
Is it that you know how?
In the silence, wisdom links ought.
Know you how it is that?
You know it is that how?
That is how you knew it!
When was it that you knew it?
A moment caught in time's swift motion,
Was it that you knew when?
Beneath
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Categories:
whirl, education, language, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Lyric
Twirl and Whirl - Nk
Twirl and Whirl - NK
though love may break
it won’t die
but shine bright
as a star
in the sky
deep in heart
forever
in the mind’s eye.
what’er will be is meant to be
love is a merry chance
a dream that has come true
it’s waltzing in moonlight
in flowering romance
to music of the night
slip on your dancing shoes
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Categories:
whirl, dance, romance,
Form: Haiku
Ode To Saint Vidas
Twirling
Prancing
Whirling
Entrancing
Unfurling
The Dancing...
Say that you dance.
Lest it not be said,
The art is ever dead.
Or even the merest of a chance,
Of nearing extinction.
It is all life's essence,
To move, be, think and dream.
To express a universal scheme,
That speaks through nature's lessons.
Not in man's religion.
A boundless form of communication.
So intricate,
Yet so ruled by emotion.
So elaborate,
And so full of
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Categories:
whirl, art, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form: Ode
My Mind Is a Whirl
Don't. Can't. Won't. Listen. Listen.
My mind is awhirl. Too much of that stuff.
Life is redundant. My friends are boring.
My parents are fussy. Absolutists.
No room for me. I try to get in my truth.
Screaming it out in looks
For I am not allowed to speak
Unless spoken to. Right?
My mind is awhirl. Wanting to break out.
Of this prison
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Categories:
whirl, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dandelion Life
The dandelion, a broad-leaf perennial,
life with very distinct stages.
Don’t confuse it with a biennial
cause this plant has five changes.
Seedlings made of yellowish leaves
form a basal rosette, oval in shape.
And as it ages the oval achieves
a very different kind of fate.
As the plant begins to mature,
the leaves transform with edges.
They are toothed and jagged for
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Categories:
whirl, flower, life, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Whirl of Blue Blossoms
Whimsical love-in-a-mist
Himalayan blue poppy
Elegant lily of the Nile
Graceful columbines
Playful balls of hydrangea
Ravishing blue daisy
Humble globe thistle
Delicate flax blooms
Sublime forget-me-nots
Breathtaking cornflower
Exquisite blue anemone
Blooms of every shade of blue
Paradise for me and you
AP: 1st place 2020, Honorable Mention 2025
Posted on February 18, 2019
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Categories:
whirl, beautiful, blue, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse
The Winds That Whirl
One more chance with you, one more chance with you
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Categories:
whirl, destiny, inspirational love, irony,
Form: Lyric
Dahlia In a Whirl
She flows, flows while petals spread their vibrant blooms
On April's mural , those lips dare to tease...
Her contours trailing with velour costumes
Wildly ablaze, to ride on spring’s trapeze.
This ambrosial drift which shines ,which glows
From heaven’s mold granting dahlia's trance
Enchanting a whirl, my shade of yellows...
Like me, she curls into a floral dance!
Flower Contest:Brian Strand
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Categories:
whirl, dance, flower,
Form: Quatrain
And the Leaves Whirl
Leaves spinning and whirling swinging and swaying to the beat
of the wind drums pulsating and rapping to their rhythmic jive
we dance all of our madness into the darkness together
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Categories:
whirl, dance,
Form: Sijo
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