Slants Poems - Poems about Slants

...Somber light slants through the window. The sun lazes behind blankets of clouds. Grey skies are all I see. A tranquil yet almost uneasy atmosphere rests over everyone. No one dares to shrug it o......

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...The cemetery is not silent. It hums—soft and steady— like a lullaby remembered just before sleep. This is not a place of endings, but of quiet continuance. Here, the earth does not mourn— it......

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... On placid waters of the reflecting pool, petals fully open as in a gesture of silent imploring, surrounded by a world of shimmering reflections. Small red carp feed on tiny insects th......

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...Dust shrouds the peeling varnish on the old church pew as Noah (first of his namesake, last of his namesake) thumbs an overripe orange in his patchwork coat pocket. The preacher, made an obelisk ......

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...This poem was mused by: "Shakespeare won't look at me" by ThomasW.Case ----------------------------------- -------------­------------------- We fill our lives with work and stress in the lust ......

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... Bronx cheers, muffled in December ‘The Boys of Summer’ have vanished gone the way of the playground ghosts of warmer climes Slants of ice fill the......

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...I'm walking with love, I hear God above, It's nativity, Christ's life ... changed me, Angst drain with a sieve, I chose more to live. First, it robbed my glow, Then it stole my show, War is......

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... suddenly bare branches sway and shiver shiver and sway, outstretched in vain to December's flares stunted grass shoots deign not wave to howling winds ......

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...Back straight, shoulders down. Straighten the computer. Stop staring at the purple walls. Light the candle once, twice, three times -- why won’t it light? -- before the flame finally catches, the ......

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...COUPLET After a couple of Tequila Sunrise so I swap my drink that'll keep open my eyes so I had a glass of Kahlua and cream that's a blunder as I fell into a dream INNER RHYME I awoke that fe......

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...KEY: H: Heart h: hearth h: I can see footsteps coming close to me a mile away but if they stand in front of me, the noise will be blinding. h: I stand flat-footed on my be......

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...Every year, at the scheduled arrival of March, Mother Nature became seasonally enraged, Like a lion, an unjustly imprisoned beast in a cage, Like a cancer patient walking on the last stage For th......

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...The mind is a traveller, on an earnest quest apart, link road to the innermost, signpost for bold hunch, meaning is a hazy sky, lay-by as mere pause, quietly we trudge in tight bands, but ne......

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...Back straight, shoulders down. Straighten the computer. Stop staring at the purple walls. Light the candle once, twice, three times -- why won’t it light? -- before the flame finally catches, fill......

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...Written: November 03, 2023 ________________________________________ Ambrosia-colored slants shine and gaze within. With delight, watch the white embers spin. Sifti......

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