Best Conventional Poems

My steady eyes observe a jay
lodge against the fissure of night
To  glide at morn, its rebellious cruise
as plumy wings reach hills and skies, and orbs:
Somehow, I feel each turn of reels
identify with every  jaunt where snowdrops’ plunge
into the tempo of avian trill...
a rhapsody
or...

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Conventional wisdom means:
Compliments
Smiles
Artificial flowers
Restraint and order
It’s like an English garden
Trimmed and accurate
Where nature is masked
And curves are beaten
It’s like an artificial flavour
Disguising the sweetness
Of the fruit
To constrain, to restrain
To hide, to abstain
Conventional wisdom is
Quiet and nice
Polished and wise
Yet sometimes like volcanic
Magma the feelings burst
Out unconventionally
Proclaiming...

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#1
garlic and honey
tasteful summer sensations –
pungent politics

#2
ears stuffed with cotton
jingoists scorn other's views
God still on spring break

#3
partisan’s season -
scientists, politicians
elites viewed worthless

#4
ignorance is king -
men walking around naked
this summer’s fashion

#5
most parties wounded
anarchists aim for the heart
tea rebels force fall

#6
government suspect
nepotism’s hard winter
leaders elected

Brian Johnston
July 21,...

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the mirror split
within the look
of sight
the aptest
share was near
snags come from
              prognosticated 

I see it strew
like ice melting
yet it was vivid
& heart 
was sobbing 
from my 
caught 
    ...

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The counter change  ahead
from many air - miles made,                                   ...

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Residual, Conventional and Hysterical 

This should be a real change. Is anyone
else out there game besides me? Here
goes again.

The effects could start out conventional;
What they ended being were residual;
What I would find most appalling?
Is for the temptation I was falling;
Hemorrhoids said to not be hysterical.

James...

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Can Be Conventional

For some people things can be conventional,
And then prove to become inconsequential;
In circles going,
Without knowing;
Skipped over what should have been essential.

Jim Horn

Sure sounds like Congress to me....

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Twinkle twinkle little stars, please tell me wherever you are,
sky blue,
The cows turn their heads, as they stand in their beds,
grass grew,
The mop and the broom had to clean up a room,
mushroom,
Mom goes no-no, Dad goes boo-boo, the baby goes poo-poo
karma,
The bass and the trout...

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Definitions:

Nationalistic Trumpism:
Republicans,
willing to embrace fascism,
to reactively
and even ballistically defend
Straight Western White Male
economic
and political
unintelligent privilege.

Green Global Democrats:
The remainder
of our health/wealth bicameral Rainbow....

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Yes? You may call it cliché,
This song or cry of love,
Its desperate and dark petals
Falling as the year bleeds out
To frost. The leaves dried or dying,
Thus to be described in crisp
Expected terms as “gold display”
Or “copper-bronze” and you
Would have me wait, you say,
Until another Spring,...

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