Best Conventionally Poems

Sitting up at 8 AM
writing a poem
I’m really not a morning person

A tissue box is my desk
A Horizon of Hope pen
That’s PEN
not PIN
I remember you...

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Burning candle
tells a tale of
pure selfless life


Be such a flame
let your aim be
to tame darkness.




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A Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three...

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The Project


Son's science quest,
insect nest finds;
school's best project.

Saves in his room.
Wakes to doom when
with gloom, he cries.

Hundreds now crawl.
Every wall sports
hatched small mantes.


Sandra M. Haight

~9th...

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How 'Bout Stoichiometry For A Conversational Hook?

Nary a clue exists about
     the relationship between
relative quantities of substances
    ...

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Three lying deacons 
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor 
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel, 
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted...

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This leaf possessed
of newest age,
with zest, upturned. 

05 Aug 2014

"Than-Bauk, conventionally a witty saying or epigram, is a three line "climbing 
rhyme" poem of Burmese...

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Saying ‘hello’ around the world
is more than a vocal projection
It’s a movement of lips, swaying of hips,
and at times complete physical expression

Saying ‘hello’ in Asia,
calls...

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I'm sleeping banana leaves
Who sprout at your summon
For every liquid led onto my sleeves

I'm a wandering savannah breeze 
long gone, at your beck..
shelters 'r abode...

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Do not be shy.
Never cry or
Comply to fear.





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A Than-Bauk, conventionally...

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s/he thought that s/he was 
something,
growing up in a small town---
biggest fish, hottest thing 
running & everybody wanted
a piece of him/her,
but when s/he got bored...

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When we laugh
When we cry 
When we smile
When we're sad
When we're excited
When we mourn 
When we sorrow ,
The world becomes silent 

When we die
Our spirit...

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When we laugh
When we cry 
When we smile
When we're sad
When we're excited
When we mourn 
When we sorrow ,
The world becomes silent 

When we die
Our spirit...

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hindsight
        a vicarious sanctuary
        exhiliarating  fluctuating
harmony
    ...

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The cut bashed from a hike in the woods , and the roll down the 

Hill and the wound  if not washed and dressed...

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