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Best Boasts Poems

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Premium Member In Memory Leonard Cohen
The End of Love

A secret grief rips apart all that was
Slaves to the sexual caresses of time
Stallions in black gallop gallantly in fields
Of spring full...

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Categories: boasts, death, dedication, memory, november,
Form: Free verse



A Ghostly Tear
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O’ crooked branch and magpie’s claw,
yon rusted chains a’ sway this night
Clutch tight a sign “The Seagull's Squall”
of splintered wood and storm clouds fight
Old tavern...

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Categories: boasts, dark, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Fading Porch Light
Fading porch light lures with pale glow
a circling moth, dull-beige and bare.
As starlight ties vast sky in bows, 
I shy away from ruthless glare. 

Night...

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Categories: boasts, depression, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Know How
Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...

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Categories: boasts, age, humanity, life, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Price One Pays For Glory
Based on the Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:3-13, which gives 
warning to escape the snare of the birdcatcher.

On stage he struts in sequined costume
a plume of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boasts, bible,
Form: Free verse



Kingdom of Ruin

Rising from the desert sand
was a shimmering mirage
of a thousand shouts
	Heated winds of fanaticism,
	intense and blowing violently loud
Shrill calls to blood prayer seethe,
breathing fiery invocations
of...

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Categories: boasts, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member unanswered -
“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.”  -...

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Categories: boasts, age, analogy, family, father
Form: Rhyme
Freedom Struggle: India
What do you know,
About the rule of British?
It is not a rule
For Indian`s to cherish!

It started decades ago,
They began with trade
And then slowly,
They began to...

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Categories: boasts, appreciation, august,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curse of Caste
                   I

They came on bullock-carts
loaded with gods
...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boasts, birth, class, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd

Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd,
there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown,
an ego-maniac who makes his own staff...

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Categories: boasts, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Africa
Plagued with an unimaginable measure of beauty
She sits somewhere between the Indian and the Atlantic
Her history boasts of nothing but debauched slavery
Having served leaders who...

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Categories: boasts, history, introspection, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Fantasy Spy
Fantasy Spy

Would that I, like a Monarch butterfly,
Could fly across the fertile land and spy,
Top tree and lilac bush in the evening hush,
Swooping down above...

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Categories: boasts, analogy, fantasy, world,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Flora and the Fauna
Said the fauna to the flora, upon the forest floor
“Which tree is the tallest, is it the Sycamore?”
The Tulip tree was listening and answered “it...

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© Kitty Lou  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: boasts, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Orchard of Perspectives
        Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
           ...

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Categories: boasts, analogy, hope, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
I Had a Sex In Places- You Could Not Dream
"I had a sex in places- you could not dream!"
My friend always boasts. And readers:- Pardon me,
 Because all people puzzled asking him:-
" About a...

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Categories: boasts, funny,
Form: Quatrain

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