Best Culled Poems
Light a Candle
...N ever again will the Tribes of Israel be the sacrificial lamb of man.
A nnealed in furnaces not in Olam HaEmet by the Almighty "the World of Truth."
Z ealots rose from the ashes of the ovens and now......
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Categories:
culled, faith, history,
Form:
Verse
The Hero Code: Decoded
...I was enthralled by each panel
a world in my grasp.
Comic books whisked me
beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer
on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes
on qu......
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Categories:
culled, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form:
Narrative
A Lost Kind Returns
...Krummes Holz gibt auch gerades Feuer
Crooked logs make straight fires [Work with what you have.]
Downcast eyes scan; the larger fear’s in deeds.
Germany thrives on the allied dollar
havin......
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Categories:
culled, freedom, heartbroken, loss,
Form:
Sonnet
Peace Slips Lightly
...Peace slips lightly
Over my shoulders
Downy in its softness
Its netting of gossamer
Floats downward
As a willow's branches
Might brush fate
And touch the unknown
I stand with beauty
I hug ai......
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Categories:
culled, autumn, beauty, change, peace,
Form:
Free verse
return to Flanders fields -
...
my brittle bones are like this fence, so built
on throes of horrors shrouded with the hilt
of war's inanely senseless blade, now dulled
by all the precious soul......
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Categories:
culled, history, loss, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Whatever Happened To Breakfast
...Whatever happened to breakfast, lamented French Toast
People love me, gushing with syrup, I used to boast
But now my brand is flat as a pancake
~ as popular as a post-H......
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Categories:
culled, food, humor, loss, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Whisper
...
Quote By: Nat King Cole, "You call it madness but I call it love "
A whisper of dreams landing on my pillow
arriving on the nightstands of amber afterglows
surrender to me an......
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Categories:
culled, appreciation, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Prose Poem Style
...Experiences re-lived culled from images I've seen, books recalled,places I've seen re-fashioned, enhanced and changed emphasised and re-arranged, evoked, re-styled in shaded tones, uniquely embossed ......
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Categories:
culled, introspection, word play,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Stranger
...Skies of unrepentant gray
Unrelenting day to day
Gloom ensconced in your brain
Hope waxes not; it only wanes
When at the door, who appears?
A stranger in whose eyes flash fear
Abrupt......
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Categories:
culled, dark, hope, humanity, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
A Penny For My Thoughts
...Diverse masks I face on each day in hell,
locked within this bone-borne scaffolding;
where once two full lips had screamed farewell,
now, sound's denied without the balm of rocking.
I'm beset, ......
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Categories:
culled, creation,
Form:
Sonnet
Neanderthal
...NEANDERTHAL
In times gone by, now recondite,
Neanderthal, erect, upright,
spoke softly, tones so lily-white,
and tried to put the world aright.
He taught us how the flame ignites
tha......
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Categories:
culled, allegory,
Form:
Monorhyme
Did I Say What I Said You Said
...Did I say What I said You said
You said looking a little forlorn
a little redundant
the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the da......
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Categories:
culled, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Spring Offerings
...I liked to take my baby brother
And my little sister too
And ramble in the countryside
When the spring was fresh and new.
We would take our Easter baskets
And would fill them with delights
Cu......
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Categories:
culled, flower,
Form:
Sonnet
Comes With a Cost
...
I come bearing a rare gift,
not something of material wealth
No silver, no gold ...
no diamonds, no pearls
No bearer bonds, no dollar bills ...
no rubies, no emeralds
I come with an ......
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Categories:
culled, spiritual, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Unquotable Quotes: the How of Democratic Kill - Xxxix, Part One
...Unquotable quotes: The How of Democratic Kill – XXXIX, Part One
Born in 1868, Alexei Maximovich PESHKOV, better known as MAXIM GORKY and hailed as the chief proponent of Soviet literature, the ......
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Categories:
culled, anti bullying, courage, dedication,
Form:
Lay