Best Coll Poems


Premium Member Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
...                                             Poems
                                                        ( i didn’t say ‘poem’)

                 … are as many as galactic swirling gnats mult......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Naked Death
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			Naked death


…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
							disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
						            the faux pas relief
    from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Who Would Milk the Tigress
...Who would milk the Tigress
				
                				    wears no armour    gasmask
				pail within squat thighs
					nor bloodless forefinger and thumb

Cows wear forlorn looks 
	distressed......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Unmeant Meanings
... Unmeant meanings

	Words keep watch
				
      their eyes in the empty spaces
                                         	fingers feel their unformed faces

Can words mean what they were not......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stock
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			Stock

Lines derail trains made from stern stock
    shunting worsted words in wagons to and fro
cabins depleted by looters piled on dock
    signals distressed faces not any more  

......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Idea Is To
...                         The idea is to...


       steep oneself in panacea 
                                                   scriptures
                                     when times see......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue


Premium Member Stateless
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                         Stateless

			…thatched houses catch fire
sparrow tires from romping in the coned-flower chestnut   
     tree
				alights on the road
	tires crunch macadam
				s......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, allegory, destiny, discrimination, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Those Who Go By His Tentmaker's Rope
... For those who go by his tentmaker’s rope

			swing from one end to the other
		though neither low nor too high
						nothing will pass you by
if you swing not to the end of your tether

Le......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, dedication, inspirational, memory, metaphor,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member While Waiting For My Return Flight Home
..."You in the military?"

I was confused at first and didn't know why the man would ask me such a question. But then I remembered my recent haircut.

"No... is it because I shaved my head, that you thi......

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Categories: coll, bereavement, life, stress, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Timed Out
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                                                Timed out
	

          …with what do you buy time
							in stockmarket time
where would you store time
		who guards the stored stock time
......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, absence, destiny, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parallel Lives
...                               parallel lives

                                       fleeting neutrinos 
electrons 
                 photons 
gravitons...
                      turn on the ......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
...     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

                 first comes the time  too fretful on your hands
next the boredom of not knowing what to do with it all
     th......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corpus
...          Corpus

                     in words 
designs 
             coloured structures   
  tones                                   movements
       all the multifarious ways of being sa......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, appreciation, career, celebrity, image,
Form: Free verse
'traitor'
...I see a symbol here,
I see a symbol there!
Is this engineering?
I wonder every where!

My first day to coll.,
I learn to kick the ball!
The ball flies high,
It’s time for me to sigh!

Mecha......

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Categories: coll, funny, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Genocide
...          Soul Genocide

No less a word than the last
   for putting to rest the syllable
   for every man a creed a cult
No final philosophy to last

Who can tell when the world ends
   f......

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coll, humanity, life, world,
Form: Quatrain
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