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...

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

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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...

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      With fluttering ears
      a sound that no one else hears -
   ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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    The young mother died,
    before she could hold her newborn child
    Paternity was unknown
 ...

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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...

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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...

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