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Best Poems Written by Alan Inman

Below are the all-time best Alan Inman poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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I Was the Unicorn

see this spot, a pit?
it is the place of my horn
now on the market.

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Family Business

No reasonable heir
to take the throne
the king went away sad
and by himself (refusing
rhyme)

The store front where
I stood so many years
watching my father work

Now razed to the ground
sold for too cheap
a price.

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Dark Queen

she was glittery
smiles, dimples, all wrong things
best to let her go.

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Dentist

Here I sit
in the painful
chair I avoided
so long

waiting for the punishment
denouncement
and judgment
to come to my gums.

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Muse

sweet voice sing sudden
in flashing hopeful verses
soft inspiration.

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Retold

there is a story
passed down mouth to eager mouth
ready to retell.

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Stand Still

Stand still
so I can paint you
capture your locks
your lovely energy

through the focused
point of a thin brush
scraping on void
canvas space.

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Doubter

I am who I am
a thinking mine
who questions
who ponders and probes
and who knows what else

Do not measure
me by the same book
you drop on others'
well-meaning heads.

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Blindness

I wondered
I wanted
I could not find

I fell victim to a blindness
rare, falling out of the sky
like a sparrow

flapping on the lawn.

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In On It

I should never
have elevated you
pretending you were more
than human,
like everyone else,
finding out - but not too late -
the smear on your hands.