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Best Arbitrary Poems

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Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and...

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Categories: arbitrary, love,
Form: List



Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: arbitrary, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
All I See Is Beauty
All I see is beauty in the burning of her words,
The flickering of flames,
Constructs of fires licking at the night
From snow white sheets of dreaming.

The...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arbitrary, art, inspirational, on writing
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Brute Censorship
If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of...

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Categories: arbitrary, art, freedom, love,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member You Gotta Have Heart
Tag words: advertising, bebop, bird, bottle, Charlie 
Parker, Coca-Cola, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie,
door, flag, heart, jazz, light bulb, Louis Armstrong,
Miles Davis, palette, Pepsi Cola, pluralism...

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Categories: arbitrary, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Lemons Get a Bum Rap
The poor lovely lemon,
     It’s really so unfair
An arbitrary choice?
    Then why not choose a pear?

Why pick on...

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Categories: arbitrary, fruit, giggle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A - Anarchy
A. Anarchy

Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended advocate...

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Categories: arbitrary, america, art, community, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peace
“Peace” whispered a child. It was an arbitrary gust that carried the word to a 
young man who repeated it out loud in a very...

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Categories: arbitrary, light, love, miracle, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry
Forgotten You
Forgotten you
As your mind collects the memories of yesterday
Forgotten You
Epiphanies tie into knotty strings of realization
That very moment. . . 
You merely exist

Back then. ....

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Categories: arbitrary, absence, abuse, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
**** Over Feature
It’s called a Blitz
It’s more like ****
**** on the feel of it
**** on those gone before
Before when readers were respected
Before some tortured verse unnecessarily
Unnecessarily complicated...

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Categories: arbitrary, abuse, art, devotion, emo,
Form: Blitz
I Never Know Where To Put My Eyes When I Am In the Walmart
blueberries are not an option
oversize strawberries, maybe.
16 pack
of pop-tarts

the workers look worried
or weary
worn down by the woman who taps on her wrist-watch
with her forefinger
her painted...

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© Ian Be  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arbitrary, america, anxiety, food, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kindness, the Gift of God
Kindness is a redeemer that reaches us from heaven whenever needed 
through human compassion or through all the helping things around 
us created on earth...

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Categories: arbitrary, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Haibun
The Bigotry That Remains, Part I
There are those in our society
who scream about fighting bigotry,
claim that we hate people with dark skin,
when you fired for insulting them,
claim that our women...

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Categories: arbitrary, america, culture, discrimination, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Insatiable White Creatures
Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night,
They came, greedy and insatiable white creatures,
Cloaked in prim pretense,
Every curve of their features seemed to express a...

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Categories: arbitrary, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Revelation Now As Then
When The White Horseman rides you will know.
Retribution and Conquest prevail,
only their names and faces 
changeable and interchangeable,
and healing is buried in silent craft.
The White...

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Categories: arbitrary, allegory,
Form: Free verse

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