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Apprise Poems - Poems about Apprise

Hitler's Watercolours

...This one’s a castle; that’s a customs-house.
They’re stolid, listless, just a little dull.
The sky supports an arbitrary gull.
The languidness of Liszt, the style of Strauss

are wholly absent. ...
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Categories: apprise, history,
Form: Quatrain

Size Matters

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When I think of food and drink,
it's no surprise
the question does arise,
with booze some choose to let it breathe
and defer their bottle of wine,
I prefer to savour the flavour
and g...
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Categories: apprise, drink, humor, humorous, wine,
Form: Rhyme



A Flock Is Encircling an Esophageal White Sky

...Above a beached bleached paperback, "The Doors of Perception",
a pent-up penchant for greed is flung wide open:

The esophagus of a seagull sky grows narrow
until one seagull stomachs trash with ...
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Categories: apprise, beach, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThought of the day

...observe reflex responses that arise ~
flawed perception marks the way we apprise...
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Categories: apprise, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Couplet

Boy With An Eye

...Betwixt the vibrant threads of a busy bazaar,
A foreigner's gaze seize on a singular star,
A boy with one eye, an enigma raid,
Their dialogue begins, a journey to trade.

"Your salesmanship shin...
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Categories: apprise, boy, child abuse, courage,
Form: Epic



Premium MemberThought of the day

...If we be still, joy will arise,
then with nothing there to apprise,
distanced from thoughts of loss or gain,
we dance carefree in the bliss rain,
moment by moment in stillness,
marking the path ...
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Categories: apprise, joy, silence, spiritual,
Form: Lay

Premium MemberPurim Headstand

...Purim Headstand
Scaling K2’s peak,
Of sudden surprise,
Upending Fate,
Rashaim could not sneak,
Anymore, Nes apprise,
Mistaken 70 years being too late,
Goyim’s scheme did leak,
Gave to the ris...
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Categories: apprise, courage, evil, holiday, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Burning Paper Houses

...Slowly creeping out of winter 
Would it ever be the same 
If I showed up at your door 
Out of breath, out of line 
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full of verbal h...
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Categories: apprise, betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAll Twelve Apostles: A Tyburn

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PETER or SIMON the YOUNGER
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slower
lower
grower
thrower
Christ calls~"Have faith,"~slower~lower~rock
Build church~confuse~grower~thrower~flock
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Categories: apprise, allusion, analogy, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Tyburn

Premium MemberAbsence of Light

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There is a darkness in my life, 
a forecast of torrential rain that drowns my heart with sorrow,
and its gloom clouds my mind, 
washing away any hope for tomorrow,

This darkness overshadows m...
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Categories: apprise, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOasis

...Written: January 1st, 2023 

Rumi's verse, "The desert beckons us as if it were the oasis,"
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An endless, lifeless moor—...
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Categories: apprise, adventure, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberChristmas Weather

...The thinking clouds, looking down on earth, and thinking.
They are puffed, curdled milk clouds that are high and cold.
They apprise a December sun which seems to be winking.
The clouds wink back, ...
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Categories: apprise, december, snow, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberVibrant emptiness

...Having long since ceased to weigh, measure or size,
presence no longer dwells upon loss or gain,
for having seen the Self, we now realise,
that bondage to ego cravings is a chain,
which we’ve bro...
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Categories: apprise, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberGlue of Goshen

...My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to ...
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Categories: apprise, betrayal, bible, brother, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Gilded Season

...Summer's green vistas sang a farewell tune
as bare limbs gently swayed in a chill wind.
It swept o'er hills, beneath a harvest moon,
filching leaves; a theft it could not rescind.

Autumn is gil...
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Categories: apprise, autumn, beautiful, color,
Form: Sonnet

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