Birds and BeesBirds and Bees
The bunnies hop forever-
as do birds and bees
but I fear I'm subjugated
by this horrible disease.
I pick the poets,
she loves me not.
And I fear I cast my love
into oceans naught.
Full of fear and pain
and haunting death.
The screaming is so real now-
when will I seek my last breath?...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, adventure, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
The eyes of Gaza
The eyes of Gaza peek at the torn land
Like a vanished fairy-tale with bursts of
Tragic humor reverberating on Instagram.
It’s not a video-game, the world of warcraft.
Just ask the five year old amputated without anesthetic,
And their ephemeral dream, of hiding under a sheet from
The weight of bombs.
Fixated on the casualty list like a...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Free verse
pots and pansPots & Pans
We see on the net a dust bowl of horror called Gaza
people with remarkable pots and pans begging for
food around an open kitchen; the thought is, do they
keep the poets and pans so clean, do they take turns
licking clean any vestige of nourishment of the said
utensils, which tells me there is a Palestine under
the...
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Categories:
age, allusion, america, april,
Form: ABC
IngrateIngrate by Adejola Joseph
Ingratitude of an ignorant
A daylight robber and abuser of opportunities
An ingrate is a time waster
A simple murderer
He doesn't appreciate
And when he does it is flattery
Helping an ingrate is like pouring water in the basket.
Ingrate....
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Free verse
Identityyou have to heal to love, break to shake, and cut to bleed. you will never be capable of love if your not capable of being, tap into your feelings and live for peace, tap into the side thats to soft to see, because thats where you’ll find and come to see, that person you...
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Categories:
allusion, angst, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Peace of mindPEACE OF MIND
left hurt and wounded by my own actions,
yeah you started it but i didnt have to go there,
i shouldve just minded my business,
ignored the situation,
but i didnt,
i couldnt bite my tongue,
i couldn’t refute the anger you sent me in shockwaves,
words that i shouldve said but i didnt,
words that i shouldnt of said...
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Categories:
age, allusion, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
I Drank from an HourglassIt has long ceased to rain here.
The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless
Hands of hell.
The air is stifling,
The heat insufferable.
I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow
Trench at a fast-drying
Brook.
I wait from the crack of dawn to vespers time,
But not an iota of liquid
The size of miniaturised Sri Lanka...
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Categories:
allusion, community, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
No Multiplicitycontest : multiplicity of self
sponsor : Alice Reynolds
27.7.25
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multiplicity
self infinite and fractal
god within found soul
without thought
~ no thought...
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Categories:
allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Other
PunishmentLittle boy drops over,
The boys playing in the streets.
It is done in the name of
Stopping war, but punishing
The fellows who don’t know
What war is, how to fight,
How to use weapons.
They only ever fight with words
And hands.
...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
allusion, angst, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
YOU ARE MY FLOWERYou are a flower watered by pure desire
Of a young heart so deep in love
A red rose in the sun, you are my flower.
I know you are a flower ready to blossom
Gracefully dancing away in the wind of autumn
I know you are my flower never to whither
You are a flower...
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Categories:
12th grade, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
HUMOROUS CONTRAST
In the Lady Godiva competition
a nude lady won...
Others in formal attire were disqualified!...
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Categories:
allusion, perspective,
Form: Burlesque
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2 no turning back at nineteen years of
age with bonded Love no eyes could
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart
with Divine injunction none could part
self dies and dies some more mere cart
dark night after dark night only He
could lift in Time convoluted sore
by suffering...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Epic
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 1 separated by vows of abstinence but
forever bonded by Light entwined
two parallel Orders twinned
in material poverty firm endured
with One Heart beating to
missions of Love ordained
in living Truth never adjourned
vessels of opposite gender
each frolicking happy dancing
and singing as children of
holy futures Assisi blessed
two exceptional...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, character, christian,
Form: Epic
Thought of the daythoughts are mere symbols, symbols illusion ~
why then do we languish in delusion...
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Categories:
allusion, introspection, words,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Allusion Poems
Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?
Poems Related to Allusion
quotation, connotation, remark, inference, suggestion, innuendo, citation, insinuation, imputation, mention, charge, indication, statement, intimation, denotation, implication, figure of speech, play on words, casual remark, incidental mention,