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Best Archetypal Poems

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Premium Member Letter From a Classic Archetypal Dope, January 4, 1960 - Part Two
Part Two

From that moment onwards
Not when the fingerless muscles unclasped
    the indented bones
But from that moment of knowing
   from that...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archetypal, girlfriend-boyfriend, day, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Letter From a Classic Archetypal Dope, January 4, 1960 - Part One
Part One

Now as I account for myself
I know the fight is over
   You made me feel if I was worth saving
I was worth...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archetypal, girlfriend-boyfriend, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archetypal, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Jim Link - 3 Years On
I
Jim was the archetypal Mensch
We loved writing, Greenbelt MD, Jesus

II
At the edge of my tears
I could sit, daydream, make monuments with words
The Hindu soul within...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archetypal, art, best friend, christian,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Good Girl
(Lada, 2020)

“Good Girl”

The archetypal relationship 
Of man and dog
Shows the depths of our unity
Philosophy, religion, politics
Who cares, in the face
Of such relationship!?

(3/13/24)
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Categories: archetypal, dog, love,
Form: Narrative



Tight Pants
As soon as I convince myself that food is not my friend
This one-sided relationship will all come to an end

Each day when I arise I...

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© Mari Banks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: archetypal, food, funny, hope, humorous,
Form: Burlesque
Empyreal Heart and Soul
O Nebulae of Heart and Soul!
In infrared portrayal WISE,
your colors grace the stellar skies.
Have you a core celestial role?

Supernal presences you seem
that steal one’s fancy...

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Categories: archetypal, allusion, heart, inspiration, love,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Tempest
My head is a box of secrets
My nerves are tuned to my dreams
If  I could change this sorry world and
were to tell you of...

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Categories: archetypal, dark, evil, truth, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surfing With R D Laing
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego..; the emergence of the 'inner' archetypal mediators of divine power [struggling...

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Categories: archetypal, deep, earth, health, political,
Form: Free verse
Diamonds On the Grass
DIAMONDS ON THE GRASS

This morning there were diamonds on the grass
Spreading ‘cross the field their scintillation
Look away and in an instant they would pass
These jewels...

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Categories: archetypal, beautiful, creation, inspirational, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Inner Nemesis
Intrigued by the beauty of bewildering sorrow

Never far away from their own contradictions

Nebulous ghosts sound a fog horn of doubt

Encased in confabulation the truth lies...

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Categories: archetypal, courage,
Form: Acrostic
Crosses Cover Me
I'm the archetypal black on white
Metallic ring and the typewriter kicks,
Clicks and lashes out, strikes the page
As each key collapses then waits and replaces
Itself to...

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Categories: archetypal, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Burn, Burn, Flog
Burn Burn Down!
The tired torch at the harbor
For water has risen to liberty's throat
We hang by the lips, of her flooding mouth
Praying angelic nudity, will...

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Categories: archetypal, america, anger, angst, baptism,
Form: Free verse
What's Sacred
Truculent trucks advert young minds; raging down roads breeding new gods as pompous, glitter covered idols carved from primordial blades of fear. Meanwhile pious pieces...

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Categories: archetypal, deep, faith, introspection, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Dunes of Guadalupe
For many years, there the sphinxes lay
Entombed in decorated silent graves,
Whose reminiscence amaze the present day.
When deities emerge out of nine decades.
 
The lost city...

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Categories: archetypal, adventure, allusion, bible, culture,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things