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Best Bona Fide Poems

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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: bona fide, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse



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: bona fide, emotions, loss, sad, youth,
Form: Rhyme
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: bona fide, 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: bona fide, 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: bona fide, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Love
I cannot tell you what love is for it is not tangible like cement  
but I can tell you this you cannot beg for...

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Categories: bona fide, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
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: bona fide, writing,
Form: Couplet
My Dream
My favorite dream,
Not so ordinary, I guess,
Not sex, wealth, fame,love...
Not seeing long missing ones,
Not vengence, not pride,
Just simply bona fide,
Getting my hands,
On a grand cathedral
pipe...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bona fide, happiness, inspirational, passion, me,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member I, Marina Abramovic
in the name of living art
pushing the limits risking it all
i put myself out teetering on every ledge
i stand where everyone can see
my nakedness flaunted...

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Categories: bona fide, art, imagery, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Xenoglossy
Xenoglossy

I learnt the language of silence
She declares
Miming is painful for the little girl
So that her eyes moves to the rhythm of xenoglossy- Silence
“Peace!” She declares...

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Categories: bona fide, absence, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Skin Bigot
It seems these days, across the land,
that the Klan has somehow got a tan.
Somehow, instead of being free,
folk now take pride in their bigotry.

They say...

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Categories: bona fide, evil, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Painted Scissors
I just want to be me, free to exist,
rest knowing everything inside is seen;
The somber parts also need to be kissed,
if it's love then there...

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Categories: bona fide, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Most Memorable Vacation
There is a place so beautiful I'd love to see again.
My dream vacation started in Madrid, in central Spain.
How I long to stroll again down...

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Categories: bona fide, spanish, vacation, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
The River and the Fisherman
An  alabaster jar

Amongst the discard

Embedded in the mud.

The fisherman

Well trained in the ancient art of picary

Catches a halibut

In the morn

It is the noon. The...

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Categories: bona fide, allegory, analogy, art, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bronco Boy -
Many maidens have seen me rushing the gates of Paradise's pen,
I stomp and buck at all intruders of shallow flirt and short strident ride,
blue ribbons...

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Categories: bona fide, analogy, boy,
Form: Romanticism

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