Categories:
allusion, fish, humorous, perspective,
Form: Monoku
the blues affairThe blues affair
I met her where the light was weakening
an enduring twilight had settled on what
was re-lived in the memory of summer
moving out of the convention, tired leaves
in the soft breeze on its final breath.
We spoke of the past but not of the now
the present didn’t matter.
I saw her as a disappearing holograph
dying in...
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Categories:
age, allusion, art, beautiful,
Form: ABC
Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, perspective,
Form: List
HUMAN BEING
Human being, a stretched rope
between the divine and the animal,
a difficult balance between the marvelous
and the abysmal...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram
Under The RubbleFalling into a dream apposed to their reality,
Living what seems to be the idea of their own personal fantasy,
The character they play is more than they are,
This egotistical deception steals their own heart,
Why is simple not enough? Why must they compare?,
What purpose does the mask hold? Why is it there?,
When innocence tried to hold on...
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Categories:
allusion, character, corruption, courage,
Form: Light Verse
RegretsRegistered voices polled
election tide Red
getting their collective way.
Reaping, now what they sowed.
Excited delirium mandated
targets, tariff topping. Tempted
serendipity. Look at you now...
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Categories:
allusion, betrayal,
Form: Acrostic
DestinyCradled in illusion’s tender shell,
Unknown destiny that could fall
Waiting end to start by nature's call
We float, where shadows softly dwell.
From one womb to another our forms unfold,
Still in darkness as next is untold
seeking the spark that birthed the old
One withers yet another is birthed .
While senses seek mysteries in line
Truth flashes to blind our shine
Will...
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Monorhyme
STRANGER LOVE MEMORYHow can I love her
When she doen't know me
She doesn't know me
How can I love her, when she don't know me
who am I now a strange memory
...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, analogy, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Fire
Flames swallow oxygen,
duplicitous in their deeds,
circumventing steel barriers—
steel barriers doubling over.
Ashen soot cakes the walls;
walls crumble, interlacing with soot.
Pyres of fire lick the night sky;
crimson smoke suffuses the air.
Breathing in microparticles,
microparticles sticking
to fibrous membranes—
breathing collapses.
Lit match—ignition,
cinders glow.
...
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Categories:
allusion, dark, fire, imagery,
Form: Other
Large HeadsLarge heads
The Modern Slavery Crisis Must Be Addressed.
Calling on all poets for an urgent meet-up
The Pied Piper has surfaced again in this world.
On this occasion, he is dressed in a Jojo Armani suit.
He never drinks bottled water from the guest tables
He questions the labels, he questions the cell phones
He reacts to the earplug...
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Categories:
abuse, allah, allusion, anti
Form: Narrative
CRISIS DILIEMAIf roses were a book
Would they still be read
And if violets are blue
Does that mean they're in depression
sadden and blue
I have no answers
for I'm not in a dictionary or
An encyclopedia nor computer with gigabytes
All the rainbows every colors
All the antidepressants doesn't bring me joy
Because all in...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
PREFERABLY
I do not claim that the days
are the executioners of the nights,
but as for me I prefer
...
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Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, night,
Form: Carpe Diem
Mislead: Denominational Teachingsmost Christians think they are going to heaven.
Christ says, "Heaven and Earth shall pass..."
My destination hopefully is God's Kingdom
where sin never bloomed.
Heaven was a garden before Eden....
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Categories:
allusion,
Form: Free verse
I HELD THE PEN, NOT HER HANDShe said, "Your love lives on pages"
Not in real-time, not in life stages
Every kiss was a line you rehearsed
Needed your heart, not merely a verse
I gave her metaphors for fire
She just wanted warmth, not a choir
Now it's silence where she once stood
I’d take it back if I could
I held the pen, not her hand
Chose the...
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Categories:
allusion, break up, conflict,
Form: Lyric
My RevelationThe Kings of the earth and great men
for survival how to begin
And the rich men, and Chief Captains
privileged and possessions, men of passion
Mighty men, Bondmen, freemen too
hiding for fate and futures through
For behold the days are coming
what can be more foreboding
In which they shall say
how could it end in such...
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Categories:
allusion, bible, fate,
Form: Free verse
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,