Best Abridging Poems

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...

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Virginia, June 8, 1789
James Madison penned the constitution
And on December 15, 1791
It became America’s resolution

The first amendment clearly states
No abridging of the freedom to speak
We...

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I’m flatter by the system it’s not corporate it just ain’t witness

If every answer came out of the air or thin hair we could do...

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In Nature's ordained sphere
No chalice, vial, or bioengineer
Earth's mantle only doting peer
Sun's warmth growth to cheer
Heaven's tap nutrients to steer
Only providence, stalk will shear

Covetous hands...

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Volition, orientation familiarization aahing
and oohing within restrictive paradigm molding
inviolable honorable gentility -
flagrantly, desirously, clearly boyz abandoning
willfully skirting, panting (heavily)
forfeiting abominably, (no Joe King) abiding

chomping at...

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Scintillating muse providing inspiration
Jettisoning convention for innovation
Scuttling old patterns without expiation
Countermanding discourse with new creation

Alternating rhythms for lofty oration
Imbuing myths with crafty animation
Ennobling verse with...

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A sprawling sun it's anchor plucks
Drifting anchorless, below the horizon ducks
A canopic relic storing spent day in timeless trust
Well-timed descent bearing the residual thrust
Borne with...

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Sunbeams serenade my window pane
Imploring restful notes to disdain

Abridging curtain the bright melody doth strain
My top sheet covers the harmonious chain

Gilded streams strike heartier refrain
But...

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Residual effect
Abridging prism
Iridescent droplets
Nuanced nature
Burnished buffer
Optical illusion
Water colors...

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LANDING

Big Brother's eye
beyond the sky 
Saw it not sneak nigh, 
round valley and hill,
gripping necks at will;

No Global Hawk, Predator, 
Brigadier, Mirador,
nor fortress and tower...

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drifting waters
abridging
drenched
pigments
of my memory
whimsically
scatter
homebound
the dyes
staining the
cold pressed
arches
of
my mind's
canvas



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE MIND'S CANVAS~ 2023

AP: 2nd place 2020, Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on July...

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O Dear I read you as Love without knowing true
I refine you many times as my God in my thoughtful vow
Here I'm still alone in...

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Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States storied republic, 
which alarming horror 
points...

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