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Best Contemporaries Poems

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The Lady of the House
It’s siesta, yet one can hear from the second floor of the house the animated sharing of juicy news some visitors have brought to the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contemporaries, abuse, analogy, black african
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: contemporaries, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Story of the Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: contemporaries, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form: Prose
Bullying 101
Step 1: 
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated 
skull, 
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to...

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Categories: contemporaries, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Changing Times
Today's changing times tell me 
I need to become more contemporary.
Yet these old bones of mine
Would rather remain with the familiar.
Using archaic words gives me...

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Categories: contemporaries, analogy, change, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Grand Piano
She was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality 
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who...

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Categories: contemporaries, analogy, love,
Form: Narrative
Kings and Queens Ii
Tell me your reasons and I shall tell you mine; never ceasing stories, but!?

Sheltered as a child and kept from the world, to soothe anothers...

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Categories: contemporaries, hope, life, love, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Misnomer
Know me?
          Not even close ...
     If I were to write about...

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Categories: contemporaries, judgement, trust, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Man and the Singer- Mystic
The Old Man and the Singer- Mystic

it was like the old man
aged and rustic
a Singer sewing machine
oddity to find in a river
rusted, like the old...

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Categories: contemporaries, old, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Have Seen a New Dawn
I awoke this morning, before Dawns early light; the Sunshine still slept.
I took my coffee cup, out on the porch, and  for “Lenore” I...

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Categories: contemporaries, devotion, history, love, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Founder's Day
Founder's day 
>A wind of gratitude is waving
>River of love is dancing, exhibiting wonderful styles whiles meandering
>Cloud of commemoration is drifting.
>All to say ‘’ayeekooo’’


>’’Osagyefo y3...

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Categories: contemporaries, africa, anniversary, birthday, happy
Form: Lyric
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which...

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Categories: contemporaries, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I,...

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Categories: contemporaries, deep, health, poverty, race,
Form: Political Verse
I Am An African Farmer
I wear a toga bigger than the life I live
I know who I am so I scream aloud, clear
My name means unlimited abundance
Cultivating the earth...

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Categories: contemporaries, farm, life, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar
Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contemporaries, beauty, character, creation, god,
Form: Villanelle

Book: Reflection on the Important Things