Best Altered Poems

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inhaling
exotic
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AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on December 13, 2019...

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Towers collapsed to foundations,
  The planes exploded in air,
To gratify firebrand preachers
  Destruction and death everywhere.

Bus became coffin on byway,
  Train torn up beneath ground,
Fanatics end innocent life,
  Spin godless chaos around.

Child kneels broken at graveside,
  Tears drip down to...

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Shakespeare's quill gave Romeo and Juliet a tragic ending
but that's a sad love story I think needs a bit of mending.
Yes, he's the Bard, but quite frankly it broke my heart
to learn they both died needlessly. I hated that part.

In my rewritten dialogue between them,...

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Altered Perspective 



“The higher you go the cooler
  “The air and weather become.”
No sooner had I been a Ruler
  Than I was utterly unwelcome.

“We elevated you to the Chair
   “Of comfort and to Authority.”
It turned to be an electric chair
 ...

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He was all fired up
he had it all figured out
this was it, the end of us 
"I need my space" or so he thought

until she entered the room 
dressed totally different 
to what is “her norm”
a black dress 
with high heels
legs that go on forever,...

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On an early spring day, washed brilliant with clover
In the land of the sun, and sweet cherry blossom
A tremble, a rumble, that rattled the earth
Cracking open the spring day, like the devil's own plaything 
Plates of dispute, on the edge of destruction
Beneath the sea’s surface…anger's...

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Not even the softest hint of dawn
can wring regret from December's night
Nor can find remorse from the frozen ground,
or hasten a winter's thaw…

Yet, we are but wise
who will answer the brittle sound,
enlightened with a new-found awe
Rejoice in the pristine plan
and sight of this snowbound land




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He thinks to change times and laws the spiraling silencer of truth.                                 ...

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Seven billion people in seven distant lands,
Scattered as products of desolate brands.
We are the puzzle pieces, distinct from each,
As leaves give beauty to an evergreen beech.

Different pieces of puzzle, put into a frame,
Individual piece have no identity or name.
Together we build in solitary perfection,
A humane...

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beneath a sea, plates of dispute spawn waves,
born with the intent to leave the shoreline
altered

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turbines of wind in pillage of fury, 
kill the helpless, but do not leave courage
altered

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from brilliance of a firestorm's vengeance
don't be blinded by fear, hope must not be
altered




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Form-- Dixdeux O 
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In an altered state.
 I reached out to you.
Your response was better understood
with closed eyes and nodded head.
You taught me of protest and laughter.
Of fear and loneliness.
 
A Mothers love 
in times of destruction.
The forlorn cries of a lover never to return;
Wishing they were there...

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We look inside our being,
Deep inside our thoughts,
Another way of life,
Another ghost to chase,
 
Our mind is filled with notions,
Internal variations of time,
Dubious from within our self,
Hesitant and unsure,
 
So much depends on yesterday,
Today appears as not,
To reach beyond our soul in time,
Without altering passion...

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We were talking on the phone about this and that
Things with meaning only to her and I
Of anything we could strike up a conversation
Intimate, yet with a barrier so high
For we were friends
Only.

That night, in the background, the uttering of another voice
A voice I thought...

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Our Christmas plans are finalized…this year we will celebrate…
our Christmas not on Christmas…but December 28.

Our family has some Christmas traditions that when we blended together we created…
The first is we chose Christmas Eve as the day our Christmas would be celebrated.

The second is we order...

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The sound of metal scraping on asphalt, echoed through the frosty morning air, as the trailer slid and skidded, leaving chaos and destruction there. 
The semi-truck came hurtling fast, its trailer swerving, out of control, I felt the impact as it struck my car, a...

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