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Best Wind Up Poems

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Premium Member Dawn As a Wind-Up Toy
Child play. Dawn, as a wind-up toy,
jumping up and down, keen.
A buoyant verdancy of joy -
waking up fresh and green.

Waking up fresh and green.
The ivy…the...

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Categories: wind up, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wind-Up Man, the Patch-Work Girl and the Remaining Time
"The Wind-Up Man, The Patch-Work Girl and The Remaining Time"



What do you do when your heart breaks into a million pieces?
You turn into metal, what’s...

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Categories: wind up, forgiveness, freedom, home, truth,
Form: Couplet
Wind Up Humanism
Realm of humankind wheedled in reset,
Homeland beray, lull to beset, 

Scrawling the parchment to a keyset,
Xenophobia in callousness, 
Dearth to darn the clout concord. 

Orness...

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Categories: wind up, community, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



History Is a Wind Up Doll
we are puppets 
and
we are paintings of puppets past 
historic yet breathing 
living but not alive 

we are dancing upon your no mans land
and we...

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Categories: wind up, black african american, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Wind-Up Toys In the Sky
Between each limping breath
the sky pulsates blanched green searing,
each day inspired by gray blight, each day
the firmament harbors dense, blazing energy,
a circus troupe of skyward...

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Categories: wind up, absence, age, dark, earth,
Form: Narrative
Getting the Wind Up
Oh! How can I forget your face
The tenderness, of your embrace
Your precious smile your gentle kiss
These things, I know, I’ll always miss
The way you’d squeeze...

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© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wind up, funny, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, health,
Form: Light Verse



Wind Up
Stuck in your box of ease
Fear holding you back from being free
Holding to comfort so you'll never fail
But this zone is starting to feel like...

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© Jessica K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wind up, adventure, fear, happiness, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Wind-Up Doll
Here I am 
    a wind-up doll
  Now almost run down

  Wondering why
    I was so wound...

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Categories: wind up, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Personification
Don'T Be Your Pasts Wind Up Toy
Something has you really dazed
You seem lost and kind of phased
Confused, hurt and really blue
Tell me what happened to you
What made you feel like this
Taking...

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Categories: wind up, feelings, pain, sad, strength,
Form: Rhyme
How'D I Wind Up Here??
Took me fifty-seven years,
To wind up in this joint,
I still wonder sometimes,
Just what was the point?

Seems to me I was smarter
At twelve years old,
Or so...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wind up, allegory, confusion, funny, me,
Form: Burlesque
Wind-Up
Why I cant control myself about the matter of you ?
Are there an unpredictable version in your hand
Or the sea of love beneath in your...

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Categories: wind up, 3rd grade,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Wind Up Toy
Tiny dancer
upon the air
flits and flaps
buzzing slaps
of wings against
a light breeze.

A wind-up toy,
a filling station
for nature’s nectar
a buzzing
fluttering
mechanism of
delightful
elation, 
is
a
hummingbird.
...

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Categories: wind up, animal, bird, nature, poems,
Form: Free verse
Dont Be Your Pasts Wind Up Toy
Something has you really dazed
You seem lost and kind of phased
Confused, hurt and really blue
Tell me what happened to you
What made you feel like this
Taking...

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Categories: wind up, change, feelings, future, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things