Best Alters Poems
What Poetry AltersYou read poetry for the survival that filters through its lines
Poetry that promises healing
no matter wars in distant lands
Poetry's brash cracks of hope as the planet veers
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Categories:
alters, encouraging, inspiration, poetry, words,
Form:
Free verse
Laid Upon Their Alters
"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 rule
the capacocha
children of complacency
dumbed down, some
thorns, uppity, removed
heads counted
to be held high
as trophies, those played
and won...
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Categories:
alters, humanity, muse, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Love Is Not Love That Alterslove has drifted and shifted from old days,
from daisies, roses and chocolate trays,
we fall in love, not after meet and look,
love is often through twitter or facebook!
her eyes were so dreamy on her webpage,
her lips so rosy they lit in me rage,
I fondled, kissed the...
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Categories:
alters, chocolate, emotions, flower, funny
Form:
Sonnet
Broken: Did AltersShe doesn’t get triggered too much anymore,
She’d put all her worries to bed,
When she figured each nuance of folks she lived with,
After meeting them all up in her head,
There was a small cranky lady, all stubborn and stern,
With tied back, frazzled wispy...
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Categories:
alters, character, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Judy and AltersFive months, and a flower blossomed
Artemis' prayers chanted at the lighted moon
A spirit entered your home,you won't go back
Who is she? A god or a demon
You hate her and love her
So much suffering drunk your mind
So many alters no one will find the core
Remember its...
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Categories:
alters, devotion,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Identity AltersThe Marvel comic book unique character,
Mark Spector, an American mercenary,
called the Moon Knight, becomes the avatar
for the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu.
He assumes the identities of Grant and Jack,
arising out of his mental reflection.
Grant, the mild-mannered British gift-shop employee,
becomes Mr. Knight, and confronts Harrow,...
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Categories:
alters, mental illness, mystery,
Form:
Free verse