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Tufts Poems - Poems about Tufts

Premium Member First Cuppa in Morn, Steaming
... The air slowly fills with curly pungent wafts of steam billowing up from a hot freshly brewed cup of coffee. Raising the baton to conduct the dawn chorus of bird songs and plans mulled t......

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Categories: tufts, day, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightscape
...Like tufts of cotton colored red and rosy And scattered through the baby sky at light Eve’, twilight clouds are whirling around the white moon, orbiting their spoke, all lush and lazy; Or stran......

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Categories: tufts, beauty, moon, nature, night,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member Love Twice Tossed
... We had been up, down and sideways with lonely nights and solitary days. We had seen total darkness dispensed from our fights. Our heads began believing our wrongs could not discover our r......

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Categories: tufts, conflict, confusion, divorce, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears Of A Clown
...Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos, an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons, of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung, or t......

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Categories: tufts, angst, anxiety, august, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Songs from Grassy Blocks
... Written: May 04, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France Quote: "Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." By Rumi ......

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Categories: tufts, appreciation, spring,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Trials of the Sea
...A scenic blue are ocean’s crested waves with tufts of white that spill in feathered sprays amidst the troughs and valleys of the sea. Will time or tempest bring God back to me? Horizons hold n......

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Categories: tufts, adventure, courage, endurance, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears
...Overrun by stuffed subdued teddy bears... of diverse and sundry sizes engaged in woebegone wild rumpus as a last hoorah for diversity, equity and inclusion, whose somber bowed heads (hide t......

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Categories: tufts, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As The Last Petal Falls
...I recline with my cherry tree musings… a fountain of blossoms cherub cheek complected rise and curve from the ground up into a heaven and cloud scene to spread in splendor a festoon of b......

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Categories: tufts, appreciation, beauty, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse
Soft Clouds
...Soft clouds, like swans gliding on the lake, Like my grandma spinning threads so fine to make. Though you drift back and forth across the sky, Don’t tease us like a mouse with a cat nearby. You......

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Categories: tufts, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Strayed Sheep - William Holman Hunt
... Straying away from the straight path in search of sumptuous grass, Me and my friends meander to the mountain top on a crisp clear sunny day, The cottony white clouds mirror our soft tufts......

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Categories: tufts, animal, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Poets Declare Life's Fragility
..."How fragile is life in nature's forceful wind..." Dylan Thomas wrote of October gales and their harsh, buffeting fingers. He called them an "autumnal spell." Autumn...the season when leaves han......

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Categories: tufts, environment, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Clouds
... Just Clouds They seem just ordinary fill for a background, a fuzzy white or gray that doesn't grab the eye and distract from the more deserving stuff like trees, sweeping ocean views and mo......

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Categories: tufts, sky, storm, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Her Fur and Her
...Her fur used to fly. She used to fly. From the floor to the couch. Once she settled- We’d brush. For years, it was full and youthful. Then it was falling out in tufts, So we’d brush more gent......

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Categories: tufts, cat, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Dandelions
...Many lawns are dotted With these yellow tufts of gold And all my life, “They’re ugly weeds!” Is what I have been told. Yet dandelions add some pop Of color to the green And though they are i......

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Categories: tufts, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whisper
...The balmy breeze wafted over the prairie, Where yellow cowslips huddled in patches. And here and there I heard a whisper echoing: Love her, love her, love her. But she seemed deaf and pref......

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Categories: tufts, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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