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The back and forth motion
Will produce a lotion!
What Newton forgot
Carl Halling Aug 2015
I'm a restless man
I am never
Still
I'm always spurred on
By some perverse
Will
The grass is never
Green
No peace here
To find
Some demon
Of motion's
At work within my
Mind
No bed is too soft
That I won't
Abandon
Its sweet calm
And comfort
For a softer
One
I'm a restless man
I am never
Still
I'm always spurred on
By some perverse will.
"Some Perverse Will" dates from about 1980, and how much of it is reflective of my mind in that year, I can't say, as I no longer identify with its sentiments to any degree; but I may have been at least partially straining for effect.
CastorPolydeuces Jul 2015
I'll try to relate to you,
I'll try to share my perception.

The world is shiny, silver coated, raw metal just barely dusted in dirt.
Its all angles, sharp and fast, turning with the speed of a ******* fair ride.
One moment, I'm staring at the ***** of your skin as it flows from the cheek to jawline,
Smooth as a pebble worn down by years spent just near the shore.
The next, your veins and muscle pull taut through your frame, slinking into an elaborate system of liquid bronze.
Pulleys and machines, bringing your particles into such a beautiful motion.
Work in progress
Upon a blossom sat a butterfly
Spellbound by its beauty, I reached to touch
Before I could, it flew with wings of dye
Floating on air and free of any crutch.
And so the butterfly left on the wind,
What disappointment might have bloomed
Mattered not, for my full heart did rescind
The sense that fleeting beauty is thus doomed.
To see that gem take wing, light and airy!
I know for all the world I would not have
Kept that colored creature stationary
For beauty is thus, of motion made of.
A moment's flight in pure serenity
Is worth more than a still eternity.
A sonnet I wrote shortly after college. Moving around as much as I do between the states, I always feel like I'm missing something, especially friends...tried to make peace with that in this poem.
AW Jul 2015
Away she stepped and looked at the mess
And all this while, time stood still

The words an echo, shattered glass
She walked away, as time stood still

Hours past, in a different world
But where she ran, time stood still

As she stopped and turned around she saw
The sun went down, but time stood still

She gathered every shred of courage
All through the night, as time stood still

As a new day dawned and light crept in
She took one step back as time stood still

She set out on the way back wondering
If life had changed while time stood still

She reached a past in screes and shatters
A broken mirror, as time stood still

Unmendable it seemed to be when
She stepped back in and time stood still

Then morning sun lit up the shards
She sat down, still, and time stepped on
Jared A Washburn Jun 2015
Incessant motion,
        Relentlessly back and forth
                Each and every day.
Tcodee Jun 2015
Slow jerking snake like
Pierces dark runs on iron moves
Below under the city
#nyc #subway #haiku #motion
Ana Wahyuni Jun 2015
I want turn back the time with no motion
Where I can grasp the eyes of the moon
I made sure 'Twas no Santa Mondega
Wrenched my love, drift swallowed into typhoon

Bourbon was wiped out us when I woke up
Even I haven't saw carcass lay up
Will not bad than never to see the light
Definitely sing then the hand rise up

I wanted to live longer certainly
Without see tomorrow comes to early
Just see the only one of sun rise up
Not eclipse killed me by frozen coldly

Make sure if I happy with the right path
Not promise that you said was made you wrath
Kelly Hogan May 2015
Her voice was music
Ok everything about her was.
The way she moved:
A liquid dance
That slipped through your fingers
On a warm day.

But that's just it
She always slipped away.
Right when you thought
You had a hold of her
She would just be gone.
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