Best Attempt Poems

If I had time enough to climb
this Everest of rhythmic rhyme,
I’d find my mind is wandering,
meandering through desert clime.

Each ancient word seems so absurd,
countless of which I’ve never heard.
The ear may hear, though wondering
and pondering what just occurred.

If days had space to ever trace
such epic...

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1.
Mom 
kept the  perch 
we caught in a bucket.

And when we took them home
She would clean and place them
In our twenty gallon tank
Where they bobbed in stunned silence
Eyes watching for any white movement.

Nobody cared
when they committed fishicide 
on their domesticated tank-mates.

Even the little beta...

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Dedicated to all Soup poets and muse - please continue to help and thank you.

I didn’t know how to write poetry as I was new,
only 6 months in the poetry game so no shame,
many a day after writing I was feeling blue,
I thought I was...

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When they declared allegiance
Overnight, you would not know
Who is by your side and who is not:
You would not know
If you are a victim or a culprit:
Whether you are prey
Or the hunter,
When the earth threatens
To swallow you in seduced heat
A blast man made and just in...

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In snow and mud stuck off the road
On hill—we killed anti-skid mode
Then cleaned your tire tread
And rocked straight ahead
So now you've no need to be towed! 
...

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I wrote this immediately after discovering the rhyme scheme of a triolet.  It is not close to my heart and I put less than 3 minutes in to writing it.  So, any advice or critique will not hurt my feelings lol.  Cheers...

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Unsupervised stop sign telling me not to go
On the other side I could join the devil's flow
Gliding through the night all my darkness in tow
But I'll wait here, because I know what I know

Don't cross the line, don't cross the line
Quit listening to the twisted...

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the neighbor's grass is always greener
and their house is always cleaner
but just remember
that come December
their family won't be any leaner...

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there flies a bird as white as life,
an ugly, peaceful dove,
 which carries darkness in its beak,
 the poem wroth with love:
 the farmer wakes at morning,
 weak with pain and ache;
there's no peace in sleeping in
when mares they howl and shake;

with mordant scythe and...

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A Shotgun Gleaming
Spent Shells make noise in the forceful wind
Bodies lay lifeless

Note: Still learning how to create haikus feedback and help much appreciated!...

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Gazing heavenward
 I oft forget Your essence resides within
 and that I'm a reflection of Your perfect image

Perpetually abiding in Your redemptive presence
 I humbly request Your loving providential guidance
 and thank You for our intimate, sacred partnership

You presently reside in my heart -
 Within...

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what my eyes behold
autumn trees giving color
    winter right behind...

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The collors go by
Flashing yellow, red and green
I suck in my breath
As I watch his death
It all happens so quickly 
In the middle of the highway
And it was seen
By me
I quickly pulled over 
For the guy on the motercycle
Just got hit by a rover
Truck
I cover...

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in a way i am lonely...stuck even to the wall like a fly surrounded by the swatters that intend to kill me...
why did you let them hurt me?
you had the knife
you just watched as they beat me into a barely living lump of blackened flesh
why...

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"Hey, Doug!"
" ugh?"...

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