Change Poems
What Weather
by Angela Fletcher
The leaves are blowing away
Up, up, and away they go.
Swish, swoosh, they go.
Like a dancing ballerina
Up, up and away they go
Way up , in the sky.
The trees standing there,
Their branches all bare.
The wind whistling throughout empty branches,
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Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan
by Moniza Alvi
They sent me a salwar kameez
&nb sp; peacock-blue,
& nbsp; and another
glistening like an orange split open,
embossed slippers, gold and black
&nbs p; points curling.
Candy-striped glass bangles
&n bsp; snapped, drew blood.
Like at school, fashions changed
&n bsp; in Pakistan -
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The Alien's Embrace
by Dhritiraj Das
Walking down the giant road
Lights ever bright, beings unknown
I'm the alien, displaced and lone
In this strange realm I can't call home
Adrift in a sea where I'll never belong
Peering at fractured reflections, feeling so wrong
But then a few souls, with welcoming grace
Reached out to this alien, fashioned a place
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The Fallen Elm
by John Clare
Old elm that murmured in our chimney top
The sweetest anthem autumn ever made
And into mellow whispering calms would drop
When showers fell on thy many coloured shade
And when dark tempests mimic thunder made -
While darkness came as it would strangle light
With the black tempest of a winter night
That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root -
How did I love to hear the winds upbraid
Thy strength without - while all within was mute.
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I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
by Pablo Neruda
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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Unfoldings
by Michael R. Burch
These are poems about change, poems about transitions, poems about bachelors recanting, poems about life and death...
Unfoldings
by Michael R. Burch
for Vicki
Time unfolds ...
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The Alien's Embrace
by Dhritiraj Das
Walking down the giant road
Lights ever bright, beings unknown
I'm the alien, displaced and lone
In this strange realm I can't call home
Adrift in a sea where I'll never belong
Peering at fractured reflections, feeling so wrong
But then a few souls, with welcoming grace
Reached out to this alien, fashioned a place
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Change
by Frangipani Retrograde
Undertone of horror
Overture of pain
Melody of sickness
Resignation to the shame
Minor notes that crack like ice
From the tsunami below
The unchangeable blow of fate
Damage that will never show
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What Changes Await?
by Mohammed Abideen Oluwalonsola
We're scared and frightened; Not yet a year, but felt like decades
This is the first in year where Gaari is sold in Thousand
Living the life where life held us hostage without a gun
What kind of life has this become?
A body with lots of dough, and look broken
An unexpected life that we despise
This change of life is where I began to write
Writing about darkness and poverty
It feel like am blind and pauper
I don't know if we should be sorry but I know we shouldn't leave without a word
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Perseveration
by Achilles Webb
Rebirth, reflection, radicalized recreation.
Change your relationship status, tell your mom-
Be consoled by your friends, tie up loose ends.
Move house, switch jobs.
Get a haircut, start a new journal.
Slip back into old toxic routines-
Wait, is it happening again?
Acidify your mind, spend all your money on weed-
Dream.
Sleep fourteen hours a day.
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