Best Cover Poems

Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate. 
Within minutes I arrive at my own ground zero. 
Exit the car. 
A body walking says you must be Courtney's...

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Through shoveled loam I glimpse pale light
   Hands dare intrude into my burial crypt
Exposing the devastation of my decay
   Dignity of this chamber has been stripped

Human eyes stare into my skeletal sockets
   I feel the sun's warmth, but cannot...

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You have no idea
How you opened my cover
You read me, understand me
You completely feel me
No one can have enough love
In all it's layers and forms
You inspire me everyday
Knowing how you know me
That all of me is yours to keep
I can be everything I want to...

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It's with great sadness and a lot of discomfort that I write
about an issue that needs addressing and brought to light
Several poets have long known
about a poet whose cover is blown
and cheats by entering their own contests. That's not right.


What would you think of a...

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To the people looking at this book
I say go ahead, Open it, Take a look
It may be the very thing you sought
I believe you'll be captivated, Yea you'll be caught
The characters, The story, The plot
My style is one of a kind
For it comes from deep...

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Down the stairs turned chiseled rocky steps
the bare beauty cascades like an ebullient rapid
raw grace of Eve glistens on the satin skin
tinged with the hues of primeval nature exposed
sculpted in curvy contours of Michelangelo finesse
and charisma.

Amorous luster flowing in the cleaved vale
carved between the ambrosial...

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I salute Mr. Timothy Smith if that's his real name
Methinks it's a cover for his worldwide fame
He's actually known
Not just for limericks alone
He's world renowned for setting girl's hearts aflame


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the way
All have a story to tell
Hidden away
.
Some people I’ve known for years
Have suddenly touched my heart
And left me in tears
When...

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That was the last call.
       Aunt Rosie and the kids have left.
               They’re      safe
     The rest...

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Ashes Now Cover, Pantheon Of Ancient Greek Gods

Deep within halls of ancient, and dead Greek gods
resides heroes forgotten, waiting their just dues
As poets of old, in golden verse gave their nods
pleas for recognition now so sadly accrues.

Does this world wrongly deny heroes of the past
In...

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In your photograph, I see your face,
As does the entire world.
Do they see what lies beyond,
Inside, that little girl?
As I look into your eyes
I sense you dream, you hope.
I pray each time I gaze at them
For days that you can cope.
In your smile, I see...

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the white feather-puffs
scattered upon the jade-moss —
nude fowl’s pluckiness

11/4/2018...

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Under Your Cover

In a cot
Sitting, waiting
Tears shed
Heart fainting
I watched as she drifted
Drifted away
It came so early
That daggering day
Shes gone
'they' placed the lid on
Under the cover
Dark, black cover

She lies there
Her body dead
It's my heart left
Baring the bloodshed
The beat is gone
My breath slow
Everything inside out
I once lived...

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Honest people act like meat. Tough or tender.
Liars act like gravy. They cover-up.

12/3/19

'Hit me with an Epi-Pen'
Sponsor: Maureen McGreavy...

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Nested in the cat’s cradle
Paraded in a child’s fable         
I have no voice, don’t let me die
No longer shall I live a lie
I have no soul nor thoughts to save
Unbeknownst to me is
this life beyond the grave?
A...

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