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Best Consequential Poems

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Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: consequential, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Me Thinking, B Thinking
I’m thinking of the letter “B”
    So close and yet so far
It seems a bit unfair to me
    ...

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Categories: consequential, fun, humor, language,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Could It Be
As I stared into the starless night,
the blinding lights of the city blotting out the beauty of a
cloudless sky fading away into day
I wonder what...

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Categories: consequential, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Slip of the Tongue
I was a city born and city bred young fellow,
whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar.
Oh yes I had seen grass, but out...

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Categories: consequential, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: consequential, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme



Did Pray On Dull and Dreary Day
Did Pray on Dull and Dreary Day
Horn Hiaku

to God we would pray
on a dull and dreary day
gorgeous sky now gray

our prayers to God said
after that...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: consequential, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Healthy Politics, and Sex, and Religion
I hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a trans-biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more...

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Categories: consequential, health, humor, philosophy, political,
Form: Political Verse
Government Sales Tax Gst
Government Sales Tax GST
Since the introduction of GST, a sales tax newly  introduced back in April 1st last year,
GST or Government Sales Tax has...

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Categories: consequential, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal, community,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Friends- the Good Side of Me
The human qualities and potential isn’t limited nor territorial
kindness at its peak is indeed interracial
it is brutal to keep this knowledge confidential
b’cos, my experience is...

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Categories: consequential, beauty, best friend, character,
Form: Epic
Must Give Us Pause
If death ends all we see
in Nature’s laws—
to be, or not to be,
with no applause—
and seas of troubles flee
when life withdraws,

then how we choose to...

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Categories: consequential, death, deep, dream, imagination,
Form: Verse
The End (Atypical English Sonnet With Abba Rhyme Scheme)
For months our sun has hovered overhead
To crack the barren earth across its land.
The streams run dry, no summer buds expand,
No desert death has ever...

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Categories: consequential, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member What Have I Seen?
1

Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.

The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.

Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in globose heads
spidery, fiery, extravagant fruit!

To identify...

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Categories: consequential, allah, girl, nature, peace,
Form: Verse
Water Is Life
WATER IS LIFE
People ignore me because of my simple nature
If you ask me, I would not hesitate to say;
When the creator takes, I take, however,...

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Categories: consequential, life, men, kiss, men,
Form: Prose Poetry
Black Snow Storm
*** Black Snow Storm ***

I’m blacker and madder and more than Hell I be bringin’ ya,
I’m a ****ed up assailant,
Mental-case mercenary hell bent,  
Simultaneous...

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Categories: consequential, rap,
Form: Lyric
Be Human For a Day
The World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue...

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Categories: consequential, america, business, character, corruption,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs