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Tumbleweeds Poems - Poems about Tumbleweeds


Premium Member Not Today, Tumbleweeds
In defense of a poet who didn't deserve harsh words. You know the saying... 'If you have nothing nice to say..." I'll not write a reprimand for two rolling bumblers that stumbled over themselves in the last two days. Some people live in a haze, throwing shade at others, I won't throw hot coals on their heads. They'll just keep...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sandpipers Call
The Sandpipers Call Sandpipers Call amongst the garbage along the shore, Tumbleweeds dance from dusk till dawn Tumbleweeds roll as time goes by, And time should stand still for love? But: Only Tumbleweeds roll roll back and fro making love to the wind. Flying lost, in a blue sky, never knowing why, Doves...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, allegory, angel, bird, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tumbleweeds
Another reminiscence of West Texas. There have been many times in my life when I have felt very much like... Tumbleweeds, Lonely searching souls Adrift on ever-shifting sandy seas, Roll blindly by. Spindly, prickly fingers Rasping, grasping, Scraping, scratching, Trailing skeletal ribbons Behind them in their wake, Ephemeral reminders Of their sad, brief passing And their desperate, Vain attempt To reconnect with earth, And life, And each other. In a brutal...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, lonely, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tumbleweeds
Lies, like tumbleweeds, Blow, rootless, across A mindless landscape. Detached from reality, One rolls into another, Collecting, growing Into a formidable Tangle of deceptions. Far and wide they travel, Dispersing along their way Their dormant seeds -- Rumors and half-truths, Alternative “facts” -- And they tumble on, But the deed is done. The seeds that fall on Fallow land Will take root there And flourish, Spreading and growing Until their “truths” Become “facts”,...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, political,
Form: Free verse
Tumbleweeds
A sight that no one really needs Is piles and piles of tumbleweeds But that is what I do believe Was seen out west on New Year's Eve. Along a stretch of highway there Were tumbleweeds beyond compare. The road was closed for 20 miles, The drivers stuck not sporting smiles. It took the crews 10 hours or more To make the...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Drifted Sand
The wind, careless in its airy freedom, Feverishly furrows the prairie grass. With a cry like a lost spirit, it winds And wails through leafless trees and toothless fence To vent its eager force upon the boards Of a lonely, weather-beaten farmhouse. Afternoon sun shines ashen and mottled, In slim slanting shafts, through a smoky pane, Opaquely painting a penumbral room. Dust motes dance...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, death, depression, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Iron Tumbleweeds Titanium Clouds and Babies
Tumbleweeds that weigh one thousand pounds Roll easier off the tongue than off the cliff Reach high to find what's up with iron Then leave the plains behind Venture over marshmallow mountain roads One thousand miles from here where clouds reside Made of pure titanium, dressed up in dynamite Rusty pink thinking lifts heavy thoughts on pillows About the mighty tumbleweeds While babies sleeping Lighter...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, appreciation, baby, education, psychological,
Form: Free verse
We May Dance -Like Tumbleweeds 2016-10-20
Oh my beloved skeleton boy You filled my heart with so much joy Your hands so nimble in their sockets Your heartless chest- set off my rockets My pulse did race with each new scare like when you looked down at me …from the stair a ghostly aberration seen wafting behind your cool death screen But my skeleton boy… at this pace we will...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Tumbling Tumbleweeds God saw fit to give unto them birth, no beauty in its display while upon the earth. Quickly the wind throws them about to wander there are no need of boots to travel over yonder. Along the countryside not rare, In due season cast aside their seed to share. A plant in pursuit of it’s purpose or fate, existing in...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Tumbleweeds
Memories tumble through my mind, rolling aimless, some have been... missing for a while. I try to fill in the blanks. Others, I sweep into already dusty corners. You know, the ones far easier forgotten. Tumbleweeds...my memories have become tumbleweeds. I take snapshots of the cherished ones, file them away giving them a home... before they blow away in the savage wind. I yell...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, angst, family, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Tumbleweeds For Brains
That Woody wanted to see me ASAP, So we done met near downtown at the KFC. He says he wants to tell me something FYI, About some new TFB sorta cowboy guy. “TFB?” I asks, “You talkin’ ‘bout an IOU Or that BYOB barn dance the boss done threw?” “Naw,” says Wood, “TFB means tumbleweeds for brains— I guess you fills the...

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Categories: tumbleweeds, cowboy-western, funny, people, me,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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