Best Amuses Poems

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...

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Write what you know
Write what you love
Invent a new world
Invent words
Be silly
Play

Write what you see
Write what bothers you
Write what amuses you
Invent a new persona
Let the...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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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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 air like pick-up...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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What am I, Who am I
I am the youngest of 4 girls
Always tease and say they left the best til last
Truth be known, that isn’t...

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