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Premium Member Baroque Spring
"Baroque Spring"


Viewed externally
I am the Winter House
Internally I am too too much 
I am eternal Baroque Spring

He watches his 
mirror twin 
and assigns fatal love
to...

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Categories: baroque, muse, poets, romance, seasons,
Form: Romanticism



Baroque... Oh Music Sweet.
The sound of baroque  fills the air
the lively beats one can hear 
 as senses reel to music sweet
elves dance  upon imaginary leaves...

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Categories: baroque, music, music, music,
Form: Rhyme
Literary Circle
I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona...

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Categories: baroque, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Chocolate Moose Girl
Chocolate Moose Girl

A Sunday brunch one day went me
when she I saw, at table three.
From my mind to forget, never nor maybe.

For on this radiant...

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Categories: baroque, art, foodgrandmother,
Form: Limerick
Everybody Knows That Nobody Knows
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS

The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago. 
It consisted of a few years in a row. 
That's pretty standard as...

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© Ken Page  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: baroque, fun, history, humor, parody,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Confessions of a Disco Queen
I suffer in poverty for lack of baroque emotions;
glimmers to decorate my eyes would be an anomaly
as deja vu smiles blend the grays of going...

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Categories: baroque, emotions, loss, sad, youth,
Form: Rhyme
A Piece of Bread.
My mother starts moaning, with another one due.
She won't live to see, as she struggles to wheeze.
I never knew famine would produce skies so blue.
But...

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Categories: baroque, death, health, introspection, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I, Mid-Century Modern
An anomaly in furnishings, I was;
so avant-garde, I triggered smiles and buzz.
Not like baroque, ornate styles of the past,
my bona fide remake was made to...

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Categories: baroque, fashion, home, tribute,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Tender Lies, Turned
You crush to dust, my walls to see, the measure of my cold ennui,

      Though I, a dilettante supreme, am...

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Categories: baroque, betrayal, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ten Words Ten Lines
Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: baroque, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Today's Sounds -- Music
Today's Sounds

Music rolls off the banjo, bluegrass
Active cheery sound, gland it’s around,
Folk music in little town passed down by word of mouth;
Family remembers and other...

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Categories: baroque, culture, family, history, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wish Was You and I
A monument to precious arts, a masterpiece you are
With imposing high Baroque columns regally looking down
Upon the dream of sculptors and vision of the Roman...

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Categories: baroque, art,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind
Guaranteed to Blow Your Mind

Farrokh Bulsara a.k.a. Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter known universally
Confirmed he had AIDS and then died the next day
His music through Queen...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: baroque, appreciation, cat, celebrity, cool,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Avante-Garde of Vellum and Ink
THE AVANTE-GARDE OF VELLUM AND INK 

The avante-garde of vellum and ink, like Cupid’s bow and arrow,
Carte blanche to choose the muse we love -...

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Categories: baroque, writing,
Form: Couplet
Bougainvillea
BOUGAINVILLEA CITY

The city that enjoyed the floral name
 Is now a transformed spectre of its past
A semi-graced decline has changed its mien
Like comely lady reaching...

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Categories: baroque, allusion, flower,
Form: Free verse

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