Turns Poems - Poems about Turns

I’ll slam with much more originality than that cadence you chose to copy. Who are you? Where is your voice? It’s a fixed game of multiple choice. You sound just like everyone else, a rhythm that’s played out but still sells. Left out too long the ice simply melts, you ache to forget such repetitive bells. I’ll slam...

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Sometimes a poem turns on the absurd, like that one there, with that pink elephant flying on the back of that lime-green bird. It's like a scene painted by Marc Chagall who, as we know, was the grandmaster of all who pictured things that never actually occurred. ...

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A cat sits on a chair and hovers over me as I lie in bed. It’s December 31st as a soft rain falls. As I get up I ask myself if this is an ending or beginning. I’ve been back in town full-time for five years but embrace memories of highways travelled throughout the Midwest when I worked for road construction crews. Now I’m left with my poems. Bare limbs in the...

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Morning Turns the Page Night lies softly across the beach, as delicate as a black, silken scarf, while, underneath its dark veil, the sea is blue tissue paper with whitened finger tips wrapping an early morning present. Then night, like nature’s magician, magically removes it’s black disguise allowing early morning light to reveal its gift - an awakening beach washed by...

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__________________ O what ye have been doing here? I’ve been watching my life pass by. Just that and nothing else? Why, is not it enough? _________________ O man, ye just cannot afford to be A mute pair of banks on meditation Forever watching the river flow by, Nor yet a stone getting grounded as sand, Ye better watch this life of yours pass by And...

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October 2051 Damali and Desharah celebrated her birthday with Sedanah Born on the same date one year apart. "Thank you both And thanks Seda for being older than me!" "No problem Cousin. She played footsie with Damali under the table. He pushed away from the table. "Seda get the food from the oven." ...

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Sunshine on the deserts Snow high up on the mounts The world keeps on turning As if nothing else now counts Footprints on the shorelines Are quick washed out to sea Three ships left on the morn In search of a new country Leaders of the cities Watch people leave in droves They've heard some have set camp In amongst the mango groves Farm lands still stand...

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They say there's more of you, back in the day. You're a shell of a man, that's what they say. Go back! Find it, find it! Less, less, you cry. Not sad; angry, empty. Try again, you lie. Yet it spreads further, beyond the now, the why, the how. Never better, but sometimes worse: what will time allow? Do you know where to look? As you close...

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a gratifying and unexpected delight one last kick at the bucket summer's claws hang on tearing a strip off autumn's plans to settle in for the stretch i answer the call of a seductive sun that leads me on a determined hunt for a terrasse that awaits where i can sit and soak in these most precious solar rays ah success... i find a nook...

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someday it’s gonna , be spring again now autumn some so call it fall ~ seasons change bird’s talk- Tweet, tweet, tweet outside walking our birds reaping as… ~ they’re tweeting sonnets crickets rubbing bended legs as summer turns fall 9/19/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024© ...

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Salem - madame - had them ... sweet Blackbirds - quack burns - slackers ... treat Even - live-in' - Stephen ... King Neighbor - favor - savor ... -ring Nil clue - few knew - male grew ... Maine Hairy - bury - scary ... sane Fanners - manners - than hers ... please Liner - minor - sign her ......

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In the markets, a wounded dollar sighs, IEA cuts oil demand, to no surprise. Stocks stride to records, touching the sky, With eyes on CPI, the reason why. The Japanese yen, in decline it stays, Interest rate differentials pave the ways. The Fed needs low inflation signs, they wait, For CPI results to decide their fate. Bitcoin speculation, 2.8 million hold tight, In the...

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In the markets, a wounded dollar sighs, IEA cuts oil demand, to no surprise. Stocks stride to records, touching the sky, With eyes on CPI, the reason why. The Japanese yen, in decline it stays, Interest rate differentials pave the ways. The Fed needs low inflation signs, they wait, For CPI results to decide their fate. Bitcoin speculation, 2.8 million hold tight, In the...

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He could feel his breath bounce back from the door How many nights he had turned the handle The cool orange glow of their bedroom She always smiled at him when he came in the room But tonight his chest was ripping apart as he held the handle It had been all over tv 13 I remembered thinking hope they catch...

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As the world turns There is only one life to live A life that beckons us to take it one day at a time Or else the heart of living will be missed God gave us life to live according to his will He gave us a mind to create beauty He gave us a heart to appreciate beauty And he gave...

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