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Approximations Poems - Poems about Approximations
Approximations
...I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have Stapled back onto ourselves— The faces we’ve taugh......
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Scorpio Fleming
Categories:
approximations,
people, social, surreal, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Cantos of Love
...("Red Skin", 2023, original encaustic) Cantos of Love Was it ever here at all… Faces, eyes, lips, breasts and thighs Parade through memory Fading, fading fast As years advance. ......
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James Moore
Categories:
approximations,
love, memory, poems,
Form:
Haiku
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
...The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein are entirely unsolicited, uncompensate......
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Michael Kalavik
Categories:
approximations,
mythology,
Form:
Prose
Galactic Strings Or Void of Space
...Galactic Strings or Void of Space? A poem’s akin to a necklace, one fashioned of water-worn pebbles (from rarest of realms), stone cold truths tumble-polished, love’s cho......
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Brian Johnston
Categories:
approximations,
faith, love, poetry, science,
Form:
Rhyme
For Your Consideration 2
...Consider this:"An average American English speaker engaged in a friendly conversation speaks at a rate of approximately 110–150 wpm. The following are approximations of conversations between my frie......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
approximations,
death, friendship,
Form:
Prose
Tweetable
...Nowhere can the truth be found, not in noble books leather-bound for words are mere approximations yet lay the groundwork for all nations.......
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Phil Capitano
Categories:
approximations,
truth, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Mathematical Approximations
...And through winds of desperate belief we shall bring you God and tell you why God does not exist explanations direct from atom bombs microcircuits, microchiped, in explosions of information come ......
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Colin Mitchell Williams
Categories:
approximations,
creation,
Form:
Free verse
Yellowstone, 1995 Or Thereabouts
...I can hear the water, a giggle almost, in the small cold spring by which I sat that foggy morning, sketchbook, pen, and watercolors in hand. A weed with a single white flower grew from t......
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Jack Jordan
Categories:
approximations,
nature, spring, flower, flower,
Form:
Free verse
Bible's Babel Babble
...BIBLE’S BABEL BABBLE (or: Language’s Chapter 11) The incident at Babel was a gift and not the punishment it seemed at first. It gave the human spirit a great lift. Despite our brief confu......
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James Ph. Kotsybar
Categories:
approximations,
religion
Form:
Sonnet
I Protest
...I protest This place that shrines As a capital For lost children, Kidnapped Violated Murdered Is dead on the list Of probabilities for hell. She was only child Someone said And I disag......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
approximations,
childhood, death
Form:
Free verse