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Windings Poems - Poems about Windings

The Book of Changes

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"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thou...
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Categories: windings, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Iii

...Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (III)



Songstress
by Michael R. Burch

Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkn...
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Categories: windings, animal, bird, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Only a Moment

...The whole of a journey still to be traveled
is much like a novel begun
with threads of the story not yet unraveled
and windings of plot to be spun.
We’ve myriad paths to meander, assess.
The hou...
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Categories: windings, adventure, future, journey, life,
Form: Ballad

Rolling Down My Hill

...I stand at the top of my hill,
Spread my arms and fall and roll,
Over pavement, yellowing grass,
Into balls of trees of autumn.

Jasper, topaz, ruby, and orange true,
At last my windings end 
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Categories: windings, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLickety Split

...L ost deep, the woods of tender age,

I feigned to quell my prurient rage ...

C aught amidst a gleam and glower,

K ept 'tween pages, pressed a flower.

E<...
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Categories: windings, analogy, life, love, time,
Form: Acrostic



Gripe

...The malicious windings of your hasty pace
That erase sweet memories and their trace
Waste things that breathes and ones mute;
Pitiless Time, you are such a ruthless brute!

If you only aged men ...
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Categories: windings, cute, time,
Form: Rhyme

The Craters of Costa Rica

...The Craters Of Costa Rica

Welcome Moon, Mars and craters, to your cousin Costa Rica
Mountain walls rise up in orange display, in gravel and red clay
Hug the twisting narrow roads in terror
Clin...
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Categories: windings, adventure, anxiety, bird, image,
Form: Free verse

Percival's Promise

...The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance
Streaming with incresent colours towards life
Infinite within its parhelion possibilities
Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides
Whereupon...
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Categories: windings, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?

Percival's Promise

...The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance
Streaming with incresent colours towards life
Infinite within its parhelion possibilities
Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides
Whereupon all...
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Categories: windings, love,
Form: I do not know?

Spirit of the Dunes

...The sun fades towards the west	
The loving beauty of our star in sunset is expressed
The majestic mountains expanding past horizon trees and beaches that are by sea caressed 
All by the divine power ...
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Categories: windings, nature, spiritual, sea, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberReliquaries

...The black one contains the incense of his cremation:
       the fragrance of hair become ash, 
       shreds of flesh lost among the sorting of the parts, 
       grindings of those that didn’t burn....
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Categories: windings, death, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Pop Culture

...Have I ever mentioned the way it is in life sometimes; my own meager thoughts!?

This Pop Culture, that has always lain at the forefront of transitories transcendence

An everflowing river which ...
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Categories: windings, hope, life, love, life,
Form: I do not know?

Compass

...Envelope life with firm arms,be for it pleasure
windings and uprisings take for measure
inevitables that are thrown down your path
sensibily minded doing the math
for you are that compass...
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Categories: windings, life,
Form: Rhyme

Poetry In Motion

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Tis yet another Moonless night... 

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Within the twine shadow laced 

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Categories: windings, introspection
Form: Rhyme

The Unconscious

...The long, open windings of the dusty road
Seems absurd, like the empty yearnings
Of a parched soul
Which wills to dangle haywire
And be so lackadaisical 
Leading to the unseen infinity
In the t...
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Categories: windings, introspectiondark, dark,
Form: Free verse

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