Best Assert Poems
Soul of Seaside Sepulchre
...
When the
seaside sepulchre
of a kingdom,
without its queen,
is smeared with
screams of lighting,
I wish to crackle
these slivers
of silver shakle,
and devour
that consoling ......
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Categories:
assert, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Oh Muse Wilt Thou Be Replaced
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Oh Muse Wilt Thou Be Replaced
Oh sweet Muse your unrivalled reign
flowed rich with a poet’s theme.
Now in digital glow subpoenaing your dream
Alas cold circuits assert ......
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Categories:
assert, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Flipped Hourglass
...In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning Atlanti......
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Categories:
assert, environment, natural disasters, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
The Witch At Inverness
...Please take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons go......
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Categories:
assert, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
'dear Prudence'
...Hell breaks loose through the trusting door
Whining its splintering, wooden hinges
Claws wrapping onto the arches beyond
Gnarled feet pressed on the threshold
Lower limbs jingling with sparky ank......
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Categories:
assert, angst, dark, judgement, life,
Form:
Free verse
Tennis Undies
...Gussie Moran, a tennis star,
Created quite a stir
When she wore lace-trimmed underwear,
Created just for her.
In 1949 this was,
On Wimbledon’s staid courts;
The British folk were scandalized,
Accord......
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Categories:
assert, people, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cup Runneth Over
...A Cup Runneth Over
His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and champagne,
Where ruthlessness wins his races in f......
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Categories:
assert, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Leader Emerges
...From sagging huts up in the hills,
We watched the tourists flash their bills.
They piled our harvest on their plates,
While soup and scraps were all we ate.
The flames lick up from garbage ......
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Categories:
assert, history, people, social, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Test of Faith 1 With Retort /Conor Jordon/ *d. Guzzi
...He's running out of Colour.
*eternity eternal mind over matter
*He forms combative images of daffodils and lilac hedges
The Grey Seeps From his Eyes.
* Hi......
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Categories:
assert, faithheart, heart, daffodils, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Just Say Go
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Just say GO
An imaginary race,
Running nowhere fast,
Sweat pours down my face,
Hoping time has passed.
Pop a pill an hour,
Distractions proving gold,
Hop into a shower,
Warm away the cold.......
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Categories:
assert, angst, death, health, life,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
He Did Not Mince Words
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He Did Not Mince Words
He did not mince words with his news;
his thoughts came forth like putrid ooze.
No need for him to paint the scene
in sunshine yellow, hopeful green.
S......
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Categories:
assert, emotions, sad, words,
Form:
Quatern
Unwanted Violin Solo
...UNWANTED VIOLIN SOLO
She wrested notes from unwilling
And resisting rosined string.
The rhythm struggled to assert control
Over her strained and anxious soul.
Mother shushed her resistin......
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Categories:
assert, music,
Form:
Couplet
Creative Madness
...We marvel
At the genius of madness
Gush over its select few
Brilliant stars that shine a bit brighter
Through eyes that see the unseen.
Their talent unbridled and raw
Craftsman of unpa......
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Categories:
assert, art, cool, crazy, mental
Form:
Free verse
When It Gets Too Much
...Have situations ever got away from you
evade conclusions while dramas protrude
like a chain link fence no time to think
assess why you're tense or reflect to sync
up events with stress to pull th......
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Categories:
assert, appreciation, humorous, psychological, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
White Beauties of My Garden
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"Flowers, the emblems of beauty and fragrance proudly assert that loveliness can catch every eye and brighten even the gloomiest heart" ~ By Poet
look at these white blossoms,
at......
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Categories:
assert, appreciation, beauty, flower,
Form:
Imagism