Best Amuses Poems


Premium Member Write What You Know

...Write what you know
Write what you love
Invent a new world
Invent words
Be silly
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Write what you see
Write what bothers you
Write what amuses you
Invent a new persona
Let the words da......

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Categories: amuses, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

Dead Air

...The DJ shuts the fader by mistake,
yet speaks his words in slick and practised tones,
but doesn’t hear them coming through his ’phones,
berates himself: That’s quite a gaffe to make.
That’s five ......

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Categories: amuses, satire,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Enchantment of a Tower

...Carve not a tower enclosing your heart 
Allow our breaths to play, let warmth prevail
Sabers fling across moors searching the grail; 
While armor of conquest tears us apart.

Unload all ha......

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Categories: amuses, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

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The Beach Entertainer

...Miles of broken, sunbaked seashells,
resembling pieces of porcelain of lesser value,
lying across a populous beach subdued by misty blue,
as hungry sea-gulls pounce the fiddler's crabs..


The ......

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Categories: amuses, beach, character, funny, hope,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member So Long As the Poet Amuses Them All

...Poetry is breathing out
graces of the heart; 
for unlike other writing,
such exhalation 
transcends words:
whether scented with sulfur
or mint de jour 
poetry is the soul’s lure
dangling immo......

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amuses, humorous, nonsense, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member the raw madness that makes me who I am

...It amuses me when people ask
“How are you?”
Fortunately for us both
They never ask
“Who are you?”

For that answer relies upon a deep dive
Into the hollows of a heart
The scorched remains of ......

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Categories: amuses, age, growing up, identity,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Lighthouse In the Storm

...Plunged into darkness the coarsen tempest struck, 
Shattering the silence calm facade. 
Raging with passion reverberating laughter, 
The gales unrelenting moaning and thrashing 
Provoked and ......

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amuses, light, rain, sea, storm,
Form: Free verse

Mr Bean

...Mr. Bean has made the world go laughing
and if laughter tis the best medicine
then Mr. Bean sure is doctor of laughter
for quite apt is he at appealing humour!

Perhaps the world's best most bel......

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Categories: amuses, career, cheer up, fun,
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Dabs of Halloween

...Written by Gail DeBole

My laughing paintbrush
Amuses the canvas with
Many mornings and tickles
Two half-polished pumpkins.

Cobwebs of cornstalk
Casually poise on the
Pumpkins and branch into
The ai......

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Categories: amuses, holiday, seasons,
Form: Imagism

Premium Member A Valentine Poem

...He gave her a bunch of roses
deep red and highly scented
sweetly he romanticizes

With loving heart, her, he teases
with his love before her casted
he gave her a bunch of roses

Some may think he nee......

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Categories: amuses, love, valentines day,
Form: Villanelle

Dengue Lawn

...Modern landscaping amuses me no end
in mansions and cottages round the bend.

To folks who seem aesthetically cultured,
a well-mown lawn is still ill-manicured,

unless there are potteries stre......

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Categories: amuses, funny
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Minstral

...Mainly a friend that loves and amuses
I often would be lost without you
Never a moan parts your lips
Steadfastly you guard our home
Tenderly you wash and groom the cats
Ready to go for a run at ......

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Categories: amuses, dog, friend, love,
Form: Acrostic

Heat Lightening

...Heat Lightening
by Michael R. Burch

Each night beneath the elms, we never knew
which lights beyond dark hills might stall, advance,
then lurch into strange headbeams tilted up
like searchlight......

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Categories: amuses, car, crush, desire, love,
Form: Sonnet

Tomorrow's Geniuses-My Lovely Children

...Never thought children were tomorrow's geniuses; 
'though they're still innocent, their behavior amuses!

There's an adorable child who is much smarter that I am;
he's talkative, vibrant and happ......

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Categories: amuses, character, child, computer, culture,
Form: Couplet

Loves Definite

...Loves Definite

 An intense feeling of deep affection
Love

Love is depicted in so many ways.
We say love and share this love, in ways that seem forbidden or hidden.
Laced in secrecy, sometime......

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Categories: amuses, absence, abuse, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
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