Bespeaking Poems

Premium Memberjust shoes

...Have you ever seen a pair of Nine West Folowe Pumps in Red Blooms Floral - or ever held a feathery pair? They offer the pure pleasure of perfection.

You can see them popping up lately, in streetwe...
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Categories: bespeaking, beauty, fashion, feelings, fun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDisplaced--The Trail of Tears --- REVISED

...Time Period~~1830-1850

	
As rain falls hard and soaks the ground
and thunder roars its mighty sound,
so tears of the displaced may fall,
our cries bespeaking dearth and pall.

The Deep South...
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Categories: bespeaking, history, native american,
Form: Kyrielle


Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

...Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(swea...
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Categories: bespeaking, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberJust a Minute Too Late

...Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before
—Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

Just a Minute Too Late

Those inky shadows, follow me,
cleverly devised in the corner...
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Categories: bespeaking, fear,
Form: Free verse

A Quit Notice

...His quit notice hung with a tack
Bears his landlord’s wish that he pack:
Disappear with his threadbare sack
And not leave behind his rack;
Both now strapped on his confused back,
His famous peac...
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Categories: bespeaking, absence, anger, anxiety, money,
Form: Rhyme


A Plethora of America Online Screen Names

...(alternately titled:
why yours truly crafted six electronic aliases).

No rhyme nor reason beatle browed
beastie boy long ago
created INXS of half dozen
email addresses gallivanting
feigning h...
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Categories: bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Mine Conscience Exhorts Restitution Regarding Lost Wedding Band

...Thru deliberate seductive
liaisons, ploys, and underhanded gambits,
I tendered illicit, explicit and complicit shenanigans
blatant actions to foment coital adulteration.

Ofttime these discrete ...
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Categories: bespeaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s

...Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade...
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Categories: bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDreams of Moonbeams

...Dreams of Moonbeams

Wondrously ethereal images always
magically abound in the dream world.

One particular image I had as a child
were dreams of moonbeams at night.

This certain majestic im...
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Categories: bespeaking, allegory, dream, emotions, god,
Form: Lyric

The Virus's Leveling Effect

...The naked truth sprinkles holy water
at curfew hours with touch of morbidity.
I'm on the brink of shortages -- of food and faith,
parading before my eyes the endless stream of bodies
dispatched t...
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Categories: bespeaking, anger,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberStop Killing My Country

...Stop Killing My Country

Accused of political banter, 
to speak the words, God Bless, 
and America in the same sentence. 
Bespeaking the fear, 
of being proud, 
just to be born in a land free ...
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Categories: bespeaking, allah, america, anti bullying,
Form: Narrative

In Summer Re I Haint Getting Undressed

...In summer re: I haint getting undressed!

Hence donning entire wardrobe,
Saint Nick outfit including,
while trumpeting think spring
argh only about four plus months away
lest some big bird will...
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Categories: bespeaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife Is More Than Good

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How cannot be otherwise?
While you know God runs this
universe, and is most generous,
His nemesis is busy, planting
darkness and doubt in your mind,
truly heinous!

There you are d...
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Categories: bespeaking, america, appreciation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTwilight Whispers

...Twilight Whispers

Our whispers during twilight,
highlight a mystical moment
of owl-light during our special
walk together in this lush forest.

This moment captures for us a
period of true t...
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Categories: bespeaking, allegory, destiny, dream, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Into the Maelstrom

...(hub bur rigid version.)

All la names bespeaking deity froom
     Noah Mo' Room India Arc
     of Covenant to Blood
     (sweat and tears) of
     San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or Turin shrou...
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Categories: bespeaking, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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