Best Besotted Poems

O my heart, why?
Why do you despair?
Why not be more patient?

You wish for the unwishable,
Love is but an elusive maiden
A wistful illusion…

Who has ever reined in the whimsical wind?
Who has ever ensnared the sunshine?
Who has ever fettered the waves of the sea?
Who has ever restrained...

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Daddy comes everyday when the twilight
Bifurcates the light into shadows
Like a miscreant, grasshopper
Intrudes into the cracks of walls
Mom became a vociferous loudspeaker
Alcohol staggers inside his belly
Like the movement of snake.. 
He never came that day
Mamma's hand freezed with 
Wheat flour and dough
My rapacious belly was...

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Can the sun usurp the throne
of chilling sister moon,
To warm the wily midnight air
As though it yet were noon;
And can an earthbound soul take flight
To soar beyond despair?
Oh yes – when you are there.

Can some metamorphosis
Those daily tasks transform
Into a ritual love dance
Between two souls...

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While sitting back and listening
to my confreres in their conversation
a glass of wine – red and quite strong
with Tuscany’s best Brunello as a brand,
gives that taste so good; a fodder.


  Its spirit makes me reinvigorated
  as I think about relationships; 
  be...

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Jealousy eats at me, masticating my miserable flesh,

each time I see your opulent smile it takes yet another bite,
chewing slowly savoring and seeking my heart to enmesh

. . .as visceral emotions move slow through molasses midnight.



12/25/2019

Gregory R Barden
Arbitrium Divisa contest
Taken from "Jealous"...

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A young lady named Laurie Ann McGee
Had an incredibly short-lived crush on me
So long since besotted
My name soon forgotted
When she met up with Timothy McFee....

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Prejudice and malice
Both besotted beggars
Gamboling, galumphing, griping and gripping a solstice
In limpid lives whose tigers and daggers

Stagger, simulate and strut along
Craven
Oblong, wrong on a song gong
Sloven and driven

Unexpectedly pop up in interpersonal interactions
Writhing like serpents
Wreaking heady havoc in their insurrections
Contents, events, proponents and deponents 

To...

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love
letters-
pictures in
the language of
love

Ekphrasis -Fan cycles for Alma by Kokoschka...

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Why are you hiding from my sight ?
Then I hide in the shadows without you
Days passed as cool and dark
Like a saint living in the mystery
Lost my dream somewhere
Thoughts of you sorronding always
Iam lost if you are away
You are the beating of my heart
You could...

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When I compare my love to frozen vines,
repressed beneath the frost’s relentless grip,
while sweetness looms, I nary taste the wines
of love that lingers taunting me to sip.

My aching skin, akin to frozen grapes,
betrays the warmth your nectar must exude.
Though pressed by weight and time, still...

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I love you even more when day is dawning
When you wake up in the morning
Without last nights make-up on
I don't know where you come from
Or why I stare more and more
Having seen you a thousand times before
Maybe its because you are so hard to ignore

I...

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