Best Criterion Poems

...The Double Rhyme Sonnet is a sonnet that rhymes not only the end of the lines but also the front part (metrically)! Of course, I would be looking for imagery, good grammar, meter, etc.; however, the ......

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...As early dawns sunlight, of golden glass....

Now drips from the ambient forest of green

Showers of light reflected, from across the pond

Gazing amid the cabins threshold; these love laced th......

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...Fear heard the phone ringing, and negative thoughts raced through his restless mind. Uncertain what might be at the end of the phone line, Fear refused to 
pick up the phone.  "Perhaps I will be ask......

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...The Kitchen

My wife’s never seen our kitchen!
It’s like it doesn’t exist
She walks right past it and heads to the garage
If she put kitchen into her GPS, it would explode
She’s going to a rest......

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...On reflection, a shining  mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flo......

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...I must travel to that space to where I know my own perfection
To turn my eyes to the most uplifted of exalted heavens
To feed the grace of challenge and objection
As the daring confrontation to my......

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...How I wish to renew and set my life in order. 
In this season, I wish to make life’s dimensions broader
I am eager to cast my past behind and embrace a new way.
In whatever I do, let my co......

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...Written: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the......

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...Being mindful of my own roots as a Filipino,
with episodes of successes and failures,
with mirror images of my own culture,
show a sliver of commonality with others
as raised in accordance with Catho......

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...Gems and precious metals are talking about volatility...
  
  Many of the Metals said that they differ only in weight while the Gems claimed that they differ only in their cuts.

  Craftsmanship ......

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...The front bar of the Criterion is filling up,
It’s after five and the patrons are filing in.
Placed orders echoing off the old timbers 
Vying to be heard and adding to the din.

The Grand Old Lady pr......

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...Sports

                                         Sports!
                                           Enjoy.
                                         It is fun.
                                   ......

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...“A” less Museless Poem
        (a lipogram)

How is to be without;
the use of my muse?
Will it be the bedrock 
of future thoughts?
Would it be foreboding;
or be more-or-less just.
To shorten......

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...I see how these people work to the hilt,
to offer themselves to a certain cause;
to take part in the so-called Project Hospitality
as they interact with all sorts of people.

  An interfaith effort t......

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...Choices or Destiny

                   Choice is the Demonstrator.
             Each one has its own ambition
                    to follow on.
             Personal choice may be sound.
      ......

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