ART APPRAISAL S twinku
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HOOGSTRATEN
eyecatching
interiors
DALI
bizarre
banalities
DUCHAMP
basic
necessities
TWINKU a double word distich with integral title
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Categories:
banalities, art,
Form: Couplet
In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances
...In the penumbra of life, a choir of lost souls dances,
Their ephemeral steps leave traces on the sands of passing time,
Their dreams, like night butterflies, crash into closed windows,
While the s...
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Categories:
banalities, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
drink wine
...Remember this poets, drink wine,
It is not talent that is important,
It is to have heart, drink wine,
Offer a drink to a friend or student
Make your friends, young and new, cry
Speaking of the...
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Categories:
banalities, poetry, wine,
Form: Free verse
Eckes’s Poem
...The poet, like many in education’s grip,
Faces another summer with pockets stripped.
In Eckes’s poem, two forms meet face to face:
The unemployment office, a dreary place.
Insults and banalitie...
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Categories:
banalities, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
light reading
...Light reading
We are striding into the new year with news
of an earthquake that got people to sit up instead
of slumping on the sofa watching a Netflix
banalities
Inundated with film, one r...
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Categories:
banalities, 9th grade, allusion, beauty,
Form: Blank verse
The Truyth Moment
...The truth moment
Memories are broken mirrors on
which the sun shines
the enduring illusion
sprinkled with the rest of my childhood
The dreamy imagined what ensued
or was at the time
kism...
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Categories:
banalities, absence, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Laid Upon Their Alters
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"Laid Upon Their Alters"
qhapaq hucha
it begins at birth
the most precious
resource of all
we are registered,
audited, one by one
under the rod measured
by lizard...
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Categories:
banalities, humanity, muse, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Autumnal Reflection
...Autumnal reflection
This is beautiful autumn, with no rain, no wind and no heat
soothing calm telling nothing about coming storms.
South Korea has solved the problem of what is needed
garish c...
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Categories:
banalities, allusion, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Chant Royal
Silent Voices of God
...Like calm breezes sweep through the trees,
The silent voices of God caress our souls
Sometimes with a rustle that startles us
Reminding us again who is at the controls.
When least w...
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Categories:
banalities, change, god, uplifting, voice,
Form: Quatrain
Revolution's Peace Perspectives
...Go ahead
Dare to invite him
to a climaxing fall-colored picnic
To read you his obituary for himself
and for you,
subject to future updating
round perspectives
free for changing
still-evolvi...
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Categories:
banalities, conflict, courage, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Crossed Lines
...Crossed lines
Why are quiet evenings not enough
the mind will not slow down or make sense
in the blinking light of thoughts.
Wine is of no use the brain turns into ruby.
I must hurry, catch t...
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Categories:
banalities, age, anger, betrayal, class,
Form: Blank verse
Mindset
...Hemispheric balance
We sing the sum of its parts
mindfully engaged
Left—concrete banalities
Right—creative dimensions...
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Categories:
banalities, birth, creation, identity, imagination,
Form: Tanka
My Choice Organic
...fixity or flux
in the
evasion of monotony
a linear turn
to integrity
in phrasal inflections
scanning language
in signature verse
internal sounds
made prominent with
div...
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Categories:
banalities, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
Organic Happenings
...fixity or flux
in the
evasion of monotony
a linear turn
to integrity
in phrasal inflections
scanning language
in signature verse
internal sounds
made prominent with
div...
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Categories:
banalities, poetry,
Form: Verse
We Are Not Alone
...People like us cannot feel aloud
We hold the world's pain within our own
To mask the anxiety in our words, in our thoughts
We talk about spring and joy
Like we understand where it comes from
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Categories:
banalities, dark, depression, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
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