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Premium Member Critics
Critics

Wrote a poem in the sand,
Wonder how it fares if left alone,
Will it bear on its own merits
Or juxtapose by meddling hands,
Meantime, sun-dries it again,
Wind...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critics, beach, imagery, inspiration, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Poetry Critics (Co-Written With James Fraser)
Wipe that silly grin from your face, boy
I am a woman, but certainly not a wimp
Watch me roll with the punches, tough guy
It'll take more...

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Categories: critics, on writing and words,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dedicated To All the Poets
An untouched piano has no purpose,
like a lonely clown without a circus.
A boat has no destiny stuck at shore,
silent like a lion who's lost its...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critics, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Literary Circle
I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona...

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Categories: critics, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member dear Gustav -
oh ...

Gustav, how you pique the senses
          captured passion's plural tenses

lovers twined in percale folds
 ...

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Categories: critics, art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member I Admit I Write Poop Poetry
A poet - some deem that I’m not
I write about farting and snot
Won’t be driven away
I am here to stay 
Of critics, I don’t give...

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Categories: critics, anti bullying, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member How To Write a Love Poem
A love poem
                How do you write a love poem

...

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Categories: critics, love, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light
Not
loved by
the critics,
artist Kinkade
adds a special glow
to his pastoral art.
A number of plates graced with
his cozy scenes adorn my home.
Kinkade understands a woman's heart.

Written Dec....

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Categories: critics, art,
Form: Nonet
Person of Colour
Person of colour is coherently germane,
He is never insane.

Some things about this person of colour may seem strange,
He is simple and he is yet to...

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Categories: critics, beauty, history, memory, passion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Panagiota Romios
Panagiota Romios


She ignores her pain and waltzes
on tiptoes on billowing clouds
She hugs the sun and the crowds
of stars with the moon above
as she walks this...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critics, poetess, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poet's Pledge
I will release no rhyme
Before its time.
No limerick, ode, haiku, or sonnet
Will 'scape from 'neath
My poet's bonnet
'til it be trimmed, and tamed, and non-aggressive,
Or overripe...

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Categories: critics, humor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Toxic Cake
Toxic Cake
       by Odin Roark

How drippingly fine
The words that coat
Such layered density 
Icing thick enough
To entice the fool
Along with...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: critics, political,
Form: Free verse
The Rose Garden
Melanie chopped down the trees
(Not by herself, of course)
That Jackie planted, just so she
Could get on her high horse.

The critics all swooped in to say
It’s...

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Categories: critics, garden,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Brute Censorship
If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of...

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Categories: critics, art, freedom, love,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Don'T Tell My Heart How To Write
In a world where we are constantly told how we should do this and that, 
we must learn to thank them for their opinions…but, to...

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Categories: critics, how i feel, life,
Form: Free verse

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