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Best Contraptions Poems


Premium Member Tangled Vines
...I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new friends and activities 
that carried me ever farther from my......

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Categories: contraptions, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
The Fixer
...“The Fixer”


While clearing gutters of the autumn leaves 
I was pushed by a wintery stiff breeze 
 Falling from ladder, by freak circumstance
Crumpling into flatness by haphazard chance
I fel......

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Categories: contraptions, addiction, grandfather, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Homeland Heretics - Part One
...A world was created where every individual believed that being represented
was essential as religions require symbols 
to be interpreted by the ordained,
meaning of things provided for us like fer......

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Categories: contraptions, america, christian, history,
Form: Didactic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Searching For What Is Already There
...The soul’s quest is long and reaches deep 
into the etheric abyss.  
One cannot find God with machines; 
God is within.

In the soul of the universe, 
in planets; all life contains a pi......

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Categories: contraptions, faith, god, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Dragging the Wine
...He saw it in my eye's,

a little sprinkle
from the pines-

little crinkles in the vines, 

what a pencil
drawing up signs,

nobody else could see have seen me at that time.


It was time......

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Categories: contraptions, dark, fear, imagination, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paralyzed
...I awake in the early morning darkness
frozen, motionless, immobilized,
my eyes straining to see into the black void
looking for any sign of my keepers,
listening for any kind of movement
Phantom......

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contraptions, anxiety, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member On Suffering
...I waited too long
to mow my lawn
biopsy my lung
yet lived long enough, anon,
however long is long.
Whatever. It's not wrong
to count along
while busy living. Sing
and stay strong
absorb the ......

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Categories: contraptions, death, friend, fun, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eye of the Tropical January Sun
...Exercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, ev......

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Categories: contraptions, death, fire, food, innocence,
Form: Verse
A Poem For Workers
...Down here in the basement,
There no time for fun or games. 
Down here in the basement,
Survival is the name of the game.
No time to ponder space or rhyme 
Or any foolish contraptions of the mind......

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Categories: contraptions, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inquisitive Dreams
...Leonardo da Vinci felt flying
was possible, sketching wings in detail.
And the fact that birds flew kept him trying,
even when all of his efforts would fail.

An artist and a brilliant e......

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Categories: contraptions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Far Away Without Someone To Hold Me
...my love is like a pistol packed with petunias
spreading heads from small space like medusas
bedding laced lush velvet to seduce you
masseus and dr. seus abstract to move you 
reduce, i let loose vamo......

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Categories: contraptions, allegory, love, romance, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Response To Rumi
...My Response To Rumi

A composite man was this Rumi Mystic who penned ‘Spiritual Couplets’ thousands
                         of magical lines of Persian poetry deep he lives on in simple (?) bites......

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Categories: contraptions, love,
Form: Free verse
Thoughtless Explosions of Verbiage
...In times of joy and in times of pain 
words are the only elusive attempt at portrayal 
Daunting Contraptions Contracted in a few fleshy pounds 
hidden in a bloody swirling cesspool hiding in our skul......

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Categories: contraptions, confusion, fear, philosophy, social,
Form: Prose Poetry
State of My Head
...Do you want to know What goes on inside my head…
It is a busy place and can be rather haunting at times.
No one understands, they think I am out of my mind.
They have no idea what happens inside.
......

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© Fonda Anne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contraptions, art, body, deep, grief,
Form: Free verse
Benediction To Anonymous Minds
...Triumphant milestones rocked and rolled thru this (viz – modern) age  
     began in the dawn of *****Sapiens early evolutionary light
     when those prime ape proto simians trod the virgin land
......

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Categories: contraptions, appreciation, celebration, dedication, fate,
Form: Personification

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry