Best Appraisal Poems

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Grandpa is a peanut buff.

He buys them raw, roasts them
at 300 degrees, 
a heat sufficient to kill germs 
and purge unworthy thoughts.

Granddaughter samples them,
still warm from the oven,
a new taste experience.

She chews slowly,
as her eyes reflect an inner light.
"These are good," she says.
"I'm making peanut...

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Unknown
Truth
Revealed
To cramp
To sap
My delicate heart
To get ever
Destruct
With
Tears
Awesome
Appraisal
To ruin...
My dreams
Apt to form
An aquarium
But with
Blind
Fishes..........

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Moment by moment, as life does unfold
We find mind not fully immersed therein
Assigning meaning to what we behold
Diffusing vibrations grazing our skin

What we call waking, being grossest state
The light of awareness, here too flickers
During sleep, senses rested, we gyrate
Responses both instinctive and weaker

Subtlest state of...

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MAGRITTE 

dream world
unfurled

DEGAS BALLET

a pose
on toes

WARHOL  FACES

monroe
tableaux...

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So many years writing about many things
it's amazing to think about them all
many subjects covered as poets do
fighting within as the thought lines brawl

Dry spells occur making one wordless
one asks where are they all gone
for a moment in time so many aplenty
then like a desert...

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BOCCIONI

moving

masterpieces

ARP

genuine

gestures

MICHAUX

illustrated

impetuosity

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MONDRIAN

rectangular

revelations

MONET

waterlily

wonders

MANET

mirrored

refelections



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PICASSO

differential

diagonals

MIRO

painting

poetics

MANRAY

scenes

unscene



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DAVINCI

somber
mystery

RAJARAVIVARMA

details
texture

VANGOGH

vibrant
bold
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instinct feral
animal urge
appals our soul

08-January-2021...

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CEZANNE

mountainous

musings

HOLBEIN

pictureque

pictorials

BOTTECELLI

staged

scenes



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POLLOCK

floor

flicks

NEWMAN

parallel

partitions

ROTHKO

monmental

murals


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backpacks, rugs, shoes, a couch or two, lots of junk from a junk drawer,
what kind of junk?
Just general junk.
Can you itemize it?
pennies,
scissors,
toothbrushes,
matches,
pens, 
eyeglasses,
toothpaste,
combs,
dog chews,
nickles,
necklaces,
rings,
thread,
dimes,
a quarter or two,
balloons,
Scotch tape.
Not an off brand? Scotch?
I stare at the imaginary appraiser in my daydream.
What would I do in a...

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Lifer and death have their own place
And rarely do they occupy the same space
But like all things in life, anything is possible
As the mind thinks, imagination makes it probable
So what would you do if you met yourself
Face to face?
Your certain death is only days away
During...

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