Best Characterized Poems

IF POETS RULED THE WORLD

If poets ruled the world
laws would be written with panache and... 
oh yes, compassion;
civil liberty in fashion.
Carpetbaggers fold up your tents and cash in.

Poets. like mothers, 
would never send their brothers to war.
Poets don’t have voices that sound like guns,
words can...

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- "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - 
Michelangelo 


Among crimson flowers
and sunsets in brushed calendulas
My imagination will not be denied
even though I am scared and alone
among the fallen ribbons
Where grief is a heavy chain
Iron reflects on...

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Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love

(  “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)

Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy of virgin soil and loose rock
where no more glows splattering...

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      With fluttering ears
      a sound that no one else hears -
      the feeling is stuck

  It might have been the wind
  a pain and sadness that mocks...

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You can try to catch the drops

Crystal clear and clean

The effect of the figures

In silence they dance

Butterfly beauty

Characterized by joy

The balance, your own values

Fill your silver mug












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A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing their karma—
regardless of results,
as characterized in Indian scriptures,
notably the Gita—
All these are instances of detachment—
Of varying degrees
And of course in...

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Nyctophobia


Darkness

instant horror

huge demon cannibals
 
hell's voracious toothy monsters

devour


Sandra M. Haight


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Contest: In 5 Lines Or Less #1
Sponsor: Skat A
Judged: 11/07/2015

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Nyctophobia is a phobia characterized by a severe fear of the dark. 
Those afflicted may fear that there are monsters lurking in the dark 
or ghosts that...

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Donald Trump is a raw desire liar
The condition occurs spontaneously

A facade built on lies
The truth is, all people lie

Is the suffering chronic or not ...
Ask the expert in the subject






* Dissociative disorders :
   a condition characterized by lack of integration
   of...

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*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i


Cliff

Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain cliffs for ascenders.
The world's tallest, *Mauna Kea.
**Mount Everest, Himalaya,
true disingenuous...

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I know exactly what you're saying..."It ain't right!"
But how many do you know as sincere? One who will put up a fight!
One as determine...Knowing despite,
Despite such obstacles we'll face, i'll California Roll right through that red light. 

Its not that I don't care,  not...

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EVERY OUNCE A MAN

Well, never climbed a mountain
but you can count on me to catch you
when you fall, after all, drank from the fountain,
so, thanks to you I am
every ounce a man.

Made love at midnight, fell in love by two,
in the middle of that sickness
thought...

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    The young mother died,
    before she could hold her newborn child
    Paternity was unknown
    the secret his mother had never shared
    The boy was cradled in the arms of...

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There is a test for personalities
by Dr. Hartman called “The Color Code.”
He studied folks both here and from abroad.
In every land exist a basic four
he’s labeled Yellow, Red, or White or Blue.
The test has nothing though to do with colors.
You answer questions based on how...

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captures her beauty in short strokes,
pen and ink frolic.
the exposure of vigor to the shoulders,
lace pirouetting, around her
budding flowers and hips.

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her poised dalliance, relaxed.
her back to the admirer.
the weightlessness
characterized in charcoal skirt,
twining with a bare-orchid backdrop.

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her frontal drop-dead gorgeousness
shrouded, but
for the tease of a slender...

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Multitudinous bells secern the tones
as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones.

Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding,
others that linger with tedious ring.

Some little bells can echo a jingle
that surely bestow a Christmas tingle.

Quite many bells ting melodious chime
prompting our schedule's punctilious time.

A carillons' unique, harmonized bells
swing from gentleness...

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