Best Coll Poems
Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem... Poems
( i didn’t say ‘poem’)
… are as many as galactic swirling gnats mult......
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Categories:
coll, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Naked Death...
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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Categories:
coll, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form:
Elegy
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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Categories:
coll, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
coll, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form:
Free verse
Stock...
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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Categories:
coll, creation, grandparents, grandson, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
The Idea Is To... The idea is to...
steep oneself in panacea
scriptures
when times see......
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Categories:
coll, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Stateless...
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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Categories:
coll, allegory, destiny, discrimination, grief,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
coll, dedication, inspirational, memory, metaphor,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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
Timed Out...
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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Categories:
coll, absence, destiny, dream, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Parallel Lives... parallel lives
fleeting neutrinos
electrons
photons
gravitons...
turn on the ......
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Categories:
coll, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
coll, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Corpus... Corpus
in words
designs
coloured structures
tones movements
all the multifarious ways of being sa......
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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
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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Categories:
coll, humanity, life, world,
Form:
Quatrain