Anticipatory
...Inspired by “Poems and Poets” by Anne Winter
“For once in my life,
I want to be a poem” — Anne Winter
If I were a poem
could my poem be a poet?
If such could be done
who besides ...
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Categories:
abstruse, fun, humorous, poetry, poets,
Form: Light Verse
Emotional Shrapnel
...Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
th...
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Categories:
abstruse, anxiety, august, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
Unsubstance - March 27-May 9
...Elusive, quick, a wisp of spectral smoke,
you, as a twinge that flickers in the eye,
haunt the corners of sight; you mystify
perception—such the awe you so evoke.
Arcane, abstruse, veiled in ...
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Categories:
abstruse, beauty, crush, love, muse,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Lake House Meditation
...Early afternoon trip all day
out on crystalline, mirror lake.
the delicate surface that shatters,
when I plunge off old dock
crafted in clay orange beach,
where I can see the shadow
of le...
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Categories:
abstruse, drug, july, memory, muse,
Form: Free verse
Subjective Sentiment
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Harrowed heart
Abstruse abstract art
Canvas concealed
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Categories:
abstruse, heartbreak, perspective,
Form: Verse
if i were or wuz
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i wanna write
'bout be'n
thuh police officer
the preacher
pilot
prune pitter
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Categories:
abstruse, art, blessing, celebration, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Indiscriminate Bombardment
...Indiscriminate bombardment will flow
with endless pigmented possibilities;
A cross of Penelope pop-socks and indigo;
Abstruse, the two primary colors;
It must be that brush of butterfly effect...
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Categories:
abstruse, color, creation, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Apologists Crack Me Up
...Apologists Are Too Funny
Apologists have been saying for 2000 years,
Jesus will return, you can dry your tears.
But they have always been making this claim,
About the truth of Christianity’s fa...
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Categories:
abstruse, religion,
Form: Verse
A Tryst in Interlude
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I rise when gilded starlight still replete the skies
Never have I beckoned hours of abstruse sleeping
I hear elegiac trills as a lone nightingale cries,
evoking memories that conjure tears o...
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Categories:
abstruse, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Murder of Crows A Pantheon of Gods
...A Murder of Crows, A Pantheon of Gods!
Monotheism, we’re told, is the way it should be.
But the Heavenly Court doesn’t make it agree.
Similar to the pantheons of many a belief.
All kinds of being...
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Categories:
abstruse, bible,
Form: Verse
A Murder of Crows, A Pantheon of Gods!
...A Murder of Crows, A Pantheon of Gods!
Monotheism, we’re told, is the way it should be.
But the Heavenly Court doesn’t make it agree.
Similar to the pantheons of many a belief.
All kinds of bei...
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Categories:
abstruse, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Letter to the weak character
...I adored your shape as a bottle of red wine,
But, close to spirit, you are the larger words and straight lines,
Thus crashing between logic and sense,
Whereas you, have been sold your soul to dark...
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Categories:
abstruse, analogy, angst, lost,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Oblivion
..."If it's a human flaw to occasionally desire to live in oblivion,
I plead guilty to my fault." Quote by Poet
I wish I could fade into a rea...
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Categories:
abstruse, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
America, Arise Altogether
...Agitators ambush America
anger attacks, abstruse
acquaintances and adversaries acrid
absolutism acolytes abrading
abrogate acrimony
America, arise altogether
amend, amend...
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Categories:
abstruse, 8th grade, america, anger,
Form: Alliteration
Last Line of Asteroid Defense
...>>>>> every way devised to deflect an asteroid
relatively small space rocks could wipe millions of people off
our planet, so what can we do for our Moon base, to do, also avoid
unsettlingly ast...
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Categories:
abstruse, analogy,
Form: Free verse
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