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Best Comprehensible Poems

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Premium Member Nothingness
“Nothingness” 

Words 
lines drawn 
unending

dusk 
to
dawn

characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind 

where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows 

and snakelike
moves 
outside the lines

electric 
we become strange
symphonies sublime;

engraved in...

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Categories: comprehensible, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ignoramus: Who Is Not Far From Being a Fool
When everyone goes east, he heads west
to him, every dialogue is a contest
comes into an interaction as the biggest
then leaves agonisingly as the lowest.
When he...

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Categories: comprehensible, funny,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Man Is That Miracle:
Silhouettes dancing with elegant gestures,
In ecstatic Moonlight dwelling in the ethereal sphere.
An oasis thriving in a wondering mind,
Mixed with emotions that teeter the edge.

As I...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comprehensible, analogy, beauty, earth, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Old Town
Little sways in shower streams 
bring on fond memories of sweet
Old Town. Fountains, heavenly
guides. Bricks and rubble take
witness to unheard passions and 
half hearted lies....

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Categories: comprehensible, art, childhood, desire, friendship
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Traumgottin: the Heart Is a Crater
"In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of time corresponding to a specific number of beats in which each beat is represented...

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Categories: comprehensible, dark, hurt, love, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Music, Music, Music
I reckon I'm showing my age and am pretty well set in my ways,
But I have zero tolerance for the 'noise' called music nowadays!
The metal...

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Categories: comprehensible, humorous, music,
Form: Rhyme
A Nightmare of Erroneous Intuitions
his eyelids conclude why bother
manacled they led him away
to the exact center of their city
they tried everything
cattle prod fire hose blow dryer
ineluctable forces of nature
now...

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Categories: comprehensible, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Feel For History
Are people who sense a direction in history,
and before history,
throughout prehistory,
who feel their way through organic-systemic evolution,
merely progressive polypathic mystics,
not quite exegetically conservative enough
to color...

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Categories: comprehensible, health, history, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Good Luck
Old Spencer, smelling of grippe, drugs, and death, 
he couldn’t bend over to pick up chalk, magazines, 
and failed acknowledgements of stupidity.
He certainly reveled in...

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Categories: comprehensible, angst, education, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Freedom of Restriction
Deflected, crushed by the social retardation, 
Not loved, ‘cos he’s altogether unaccepting, 
Active learning the robot’s mouth action, 
So he can't contextualise, there’s no blessing.

Neither...

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Categories: comprehensible, caregiving, computer, future, identity,
Form: Quatrain
Embark On the Journey Out of the Dark
Writings moving through me with the Holy Spirit,
Inviting exquisite artistry like Hebrew so I write it automatically,
Transmitted and sent with rugged style of construed truth,...

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© Quincy Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: comprehensible, destiny, identity, meaningful, self,
Form: Free verse
'kasa' - Truth and Wisdom 3
an Eagle's flight is no fright
rather a height to fright all prey
You always stand tall
when you discount sky heights
Standing on the tallest Mountain
does not make...

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Categories: comprehensible, truth, wisdom, universe,
Form: Free verse
My Inner Feelings
Left to right I look
Seeking for that something that is compatible
 with my radical yet supernatural  characteristics 
The lenses of my eyes are swiftly...

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Categories: comprehensible, emotions,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Computer Tyro
After much cajoling by my kids and grandkids over the years,
I entered the computer age with great tremblings and fears.
My Selectric typewriter and encyclopedia were...

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Categories: comprehensible, computer-internetcomputer,
Form: Rhyme
C'Mon Gimme a Botox Smile
C'mon Gimme A Botox Smile!

'Pon bing asked by spouse, while she didst dock
and pooched herself abed 
handily at nine o'clock
to see "handsome" pedigree dentastix
dog face...

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Categories: comprehensible, funny, giggle, halloween, hilarious,
Form: Free verse

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