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Best Canonical Poems

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Premium Member Their Precious Jewels
where *Sharia reigns
women are precious jewels
hide them from the world
let no other man behold
the diamond that you possess

guard that precious gem
her ovaries will get hurt
if...

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Categories: canonical, men, power,
Form: Tanka



Felled Tree
Dear swollen-trunk maple, deemed 
diseased by the saw-happy tree guy, 
you who have stood silently, supposedly 
slipping your ailment through your roots 
to the neighboring...

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Categories: canonical, life, tree, space, tree,
Form: I do not know?
An Awful Crime
The narrow lane led to an awful place
With its own page in the annals of history,
Where once was committed a murder most foul
It’s perpetrator to...

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Categories: canonical, history, mystery
Form: Quatrain
Who, Why, What, Where, When
Who, Why, What, Where, When?

Take a meme, and make it clean by belief, engagement, 
God meme, Santa Claus or denim jeans are fundamentals, 
They offer...

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Categories: canonical, faith, god, happiness, identity,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Logical Astuteness
Education has never deluded me,
it is a rich mine from which my gemstones are extracted;
and all of them can adorn with its brilliance 
a king's...

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Categories: canonical, education, history, people, philosophywords,
Form: Sestina



Alpha Bet Cap Cha
Alpha Bet Cap Cha

Just twenty six letters of the english language to whit
twisted in various & sundry combinations pit
this bull dog of a canonical wordsmith...

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Categories: canonical, anxiety, crazy, devotion, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Apathetic Dusty Shelves
Apocryphal embellishments of

a non-canonical secret society,

teeming amidst a dubious 

enterprising authenticity, 

exposure's excessed stormy decay of 

  tormented poet's crushing blows,

ego's wild oats fruitlessly...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canonical, allegory, destiny, hyperbole, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bishop Bougram's Apology
'Tis in a manner far from thrasonical
That I come to you in full canonical
What I chose to do  was to instill my love
On acolytes...

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Categories: canonical, addiction, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Bible Defined 11022011
Other source of supernatural knowledge is the Bible
In the words of the Council of Trent
Which enumerated the books of the Bible under their proper titles
The...

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Categories: canonical, education, family, children, friendship,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The 36 Percent Poem
The 36% Poem

I recall going to the stained-glass church as a child 
and wishing the Jesus statue would move, that he would
just step down from...

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Categories: canonical, forgiveness, religion,
Form: Blank verse
Ibykos Fragment 286 Translation
Ibykos Fragment 286, circa 564 BCE
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Come spring, the grand
apple trees stand
watered by a gushing river
where the maidens’ uncut flowers shiver
and...

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Categories: canonical, desire, emotions, feelings, garden,
Form: Verse
Doomsday
DOOMSDAY:

All claim they revering Almighty GOD,
Same time hailing graven images as their lord.
Plainly they see it no wrong;
The inappropriate way of procuring mammon.
And their advertisment...

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Categories: canonical, judgement,
Form: Lyric
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what...

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Categories: canonical, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Elliptical Part1
Canonical, orbit, elliptical, prodigal, crown

come back to me reasons and signs and be found in these

Stardust, Sirius, be the scourge of Thebes and of the...

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Categories: canonical, abortion, adventure, allegory, animal,
Form: Rhyme
2009 Hyundai Sonata An Infuriating Rattletrap
Time and again finances stretched
to breaking point
crackle, pop, and snap
'curse Alfred E. Neuman
smiles at yours truly
(this luckless papa)

with with his toothy gap
haint even Abel nor...

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Categories: canonical, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things