Best Brassy Poems
Amidst the Darkened Veils...'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in the ever d......
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Categories:
brassy, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Josie's Last Call...You frolic with playful abandon
Oblivious to obligation
Such wobbly legs prove hard to stand on
Chameleon charmed by temptation
I don't know why your halo's all bent
Your soul's complaint argu......
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Categories:
brassy, family, loss
Form:
Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High...2017 - year zero
They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They school......
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Categories:
brassy, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form:
Free verse
Australia Down Under...Down under continent
Down low is Australia
Australia the big island
Australia sixth largest continent
Country whose desert known as outback
Country who has the largest reef
Reef called the ......
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Categories:
brassy, nature, weather,
Form:
Blitz
The Interrogation ..."I would rather be on a leaky ship that is mine, than aboard a more seaworthy vessel going where I don't wish it to go"—Poet's alter ego
Yes, I know what I’m doing
I’m the master of my fate
The ......
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Categories:
brassy, angst, character, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Open Handed Thief...The birdfeeder hung on a narrow limb,
away from deck rails, discouraging squirrels.
No problem for the little robber
who raided the feeder day by day.
Repeatedly, he climbed onto a tender bran......
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Categories:
brassy, animal, food, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Yesterday's Gristmill...Sometimes, I can hear that happy, bubbly brook
bouncing over stones and under the wheel…that giant wheel.
It would drone along groaning a wooden song;
each night luring the brassy sun ever toward ......
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Categories:
brassy, environment, memory, music, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Four Cafes...January’s snow flows stealthfully through my fifth-floor apartment window, flung wide open to welcome in the new year. The half-drawn curtains bellow with brisk salt air blowing in from the North Se......
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Categories:
brassy, character, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Sand Sleepers...She lay upon the chill drying sand
disheveled
lay the brassy gold of her hair
adorned with seaweed
upon her blue gray cheeks
small pink crabs crawl
the ruched red skirt she wore washed
bac......
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Categories:
brassy, death,
Form:
Free verse
Brassy Barry's Bumbling Bull...Brassy Barry’s boastful bumbling Brana Bull
Badgered Billy’s bashful buffoonish Baboon
Into baking a boisterous Blackberry Bisque
Beyond bunking, Barry’s brave babysitter
boldly bellowed br......
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Categories:
brassy, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Always Blooming...
Chetta is the nom de plume
of a brassy, classy, sassy, and a little bit trashy
sister of the summer sun,
she's a lover of sugar and spice and everything nice;
feels sunny, funny, and a little p......
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Categories:
brassy, life,
Form:
Bio
The Sandy Shoal...She lay upon the sand, lowtide-cold, salted-dry, dissheveled.
Tomorrow would have been her twenty first birthday,
unadorned, except for the seaweed in her brassy blonde hair.
Tip-toeing across her......
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Categories:
brassy, death,
Form:
Free verse
Mother of the Age...Stately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers reste......
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Categories:
brassy, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness,
Form:
Epic
A Wee Bit Sassy...Some girls are brassy, some girls are flashy
Some girls are even a wee bit trashy
They give you a tweak
A tug on your cheek
Actually prefer girls that show a bit of their ass-y
© Jac......
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Categories:
brassy, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
I Am Fire...I am fire, I stalk you and wait to burn your fat,
I am the pyre that delights to ignite your passing hat,
I am fire that brassy whore that sucks you dry with flames
you cannot quench
I am fir......
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Categories:
brassy, angst, death, fear, fire,
Form:
Free verse