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Premium Member Anthropomorphic

If food for finer thoughts we did not crave,
If sense of purpose we did not apply,
If we did not critique how we behave, 
If dormant...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Aphrodite As An Anthropomorphic Map
The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
  The Phoenicians did make
  Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, africa, body, imagery, language,
Form: Limerick
The Blessing
Sometimes I can be really insistent: standing on one leg, brining my hands in prayer, dressed only in the four sides of the world, I...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, desire, god,
Form: Haibun
She Believes In Lavender Moons
Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years....

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Categories: anthropomorphic, faith, growth, myth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Coolridge
Cassius Marcellus Coolridge
'twixt canines& art made a bridge
With caricature so comique
he personalised the anthropomorphic...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, art, people,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Feathers of Pride and Humility
In twilight's realm, where moonbeams entwine,
Two owls engaged in a contrast of minds:
A Great Horned Owl, proud and strong,
And a Great Gray Owl, cunning and...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, allegory, education, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Water's Weakness
There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, power, psychological, water, western,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perfect Balanced Pitch
Imperfection is the mirror of perfection;
opposites reveal each other.
Rumi (M Mafi translation)

Dissonance is the non-polynomial mirror of confluence;
opposites unveil each other.

Ego-suffering grows the anti-relational mirror...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, earth day, growth, math,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Letter From a Son To His Late Mother
Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, emotions, family, loss, mother
Form: Prose
Kinta Valley
THE KINTA VALLEY
OR : Dreams of the Sleeping Man
        (Anthropomorphic name of a mountain profile viewed from The...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, environment, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Turning Ballistics Into Ballast
"The desire for personal exculpation from the sins of society is a kind of fetish,
akin to solar panels on a 4,000-square-foot house."

Exemption from our anti-social...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, culture, leadership, light, universe,
Form: Free verse
Real Ladies
I don’t have a cat,
I don’t need one
Because so many
wander in my
neighbourhood
The females remind
me of miniature
cheetahs
So graceful,
elegant, and curves
in all the right
places 
Real ladies, every
one...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, allegory, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aliens Invisible In Our Midst
What would an alien look like?
Would you see an alien standing next to you?
Why should an alien look anything like you,
with arms, legs, head, eyes...

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Categories: anthropomorphic, space,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Highs and Lows
Often I have been plagued
by highs and lows--
pill pushers
would love to get their hands
on me;
put their label on me
and tell my wife:
"Shake well before using:
may...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anthropomorphic, allegory, allusion, humanity, humor,
Form: Free verse
Beginnings and Endings
i go in the morning, 
as i normally do, and 
warm my cup of coffee,
robust awakenings to today,
sit down and begin to arouse and 
contemplate...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anthropomorphic, adventure, confusion, death, happiness,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things