Best Literary Poems

I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona fide critics 
(black turtlenecks; color is an anomaly and suspicious), 
they claim carte blanche to spew 
pompous platitudes,
pronounce entire oeuvres...

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Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.

Where Titans clash their pens
both spear and shield
signifier and signified in eternal...

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When my spirit was fogged in gloom
After i impacted concrete; like a lead balloon

It lifted my strength as I started to write
Of a beautiful girls toy; on its maiden flight

Intended for a contest by souper trouper P D
But I wrote it wrong in "form" if...

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Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman 

What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?

On a stage of scrutiny,  
          titans c l a s h—  
McCarthy's words, a web of accusations  
S l i...

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Simply ran out of reason and rhyme,
not even words worth a dime.
  
Got nothing to say, the mind is empty,
damn muses have deserted me.

Cracked my brain searching for ideas,
found nothing there but paranoia.

Lost confidence to shape and create,
completely busted and feeling beat.

Unable to throw...

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R-eader
O-f
N-ame's
E-xcellent
L-ine
L-ets

W-ords
A-pply
R-emarkable
R-ighteousness
E-mploying
N-obility

A-s
L-iterary
M-ind
A-uthors
N-iceness

Topic: Birthday of poet Ronell Warren Alman (August 26) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Traveling through the jaded discourse
With bartered pen and little remorse
Brandishing sharpened scalpel; tour de force
Unabashedly seeking all texts from lexicon to divorce

Developing underlying themes to alter the broader context
Freely abridging each verse to establish the pretext
Isolating each stanza to create a subtext
Inferring connotations to establish...

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Solving depression
If this equation by Victor Frankl is true
D=S-M
Despair = suffering – meaning
I suffer from despair
My despair causes me suffering
My suffering clouds my true meaning
The clouds stop me from finding my true meaning.
–S+-C=-M
We all need meaning. What is my meaning?
What will my meaning equal to?
When...

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LAMB AMONG THE LITERARY LIONS

Housewives, secretaries, the odd pro willing to stoop,
All came, delinquents, child prodigies, derelict old men
“All welcome” – the Chair of the Writers’ Group
To those looking for support, with a love of the pen;

They were decent people bonding, scorning the pub
The roll...

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(alternate title – A bona 
er fide dog day afternoon delight).

A mere half dozen vowels 
constitute the English language 
    Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
Consonants comprise majority
  
(sans remaining twenty) 
     Ta Deum, whereby both 
    ...

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Still winter season today
We don't tolerate cold, take today
Hard more than warm sunny has too be
We didn't bore still today
We shall hoist the flag in public.
Literature has escaped from the gust
Literature of the new agreement, both floor
All language culture show.
Legs then gave out the grass...

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Ears listening to only their lies,

And their lies speaking only to them,

Trying to be quiet yet still screaming,

Drowning in rants never heard,

So concise but not too clear,

Imprisoned in thoughts of obsession,

Muttering useless ancient literary rules,

In love with yet hating poetic expressions,

Foreign to their limited constrained...

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Heresy...spell of the gods and the angelically demonic last temptation and passion of jesus christ superstar of montreal corpus christi and paris....
Or....the Writings Of Lewis Findley
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Lucilla invictus sings her song and opens her door
A bright chartreuce caboose as she waltzes cross the floor/?
Or maybe one...

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Restrained flow of ink expressed from a dusty pen,
to the faded paper creased like a wave in an angry sea, 
tucked inside a tattered notebook,
closed until another bittersweet day when the golden sun will rise. 
Minds eye reflects,
to the thoughts that travel through endless days,...

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Someone once said, 

        "If opportunity doesn't knock, 
         build a door." 

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