Best Decorous Poems

a few days like years
have not heard mountains echo
since the lasting year...

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The caricature of a gentleman, nameless, scorned,
The infamous savage of the famous street was wobbling:
Scruffy, shaggy, ruffed beared, tousled haired,
Disheveled,
there went the odious appearance, bumbling.
Soubriquet:...

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Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in...

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My sonnet has the temper of a screaming child
because I'll not allow it to run free and wild
Mired on a pad, it damns me. "I...

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The old saw "Go West, Young Man" is attributed to Horace Greeley,
But it was coined by a writer from a Terre Haute paper, really!
Horace was...

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Ah! To be a child again and from worry to be free,
To mimic Mister Squirrel and scamper up a tree!
God made trees for climbing by...

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Your face contorts in a twisted effort
Plaintive in non-decorous reverberation
A terrain around a pair of distant orbs 
Lost in extemporaneous consternation
To ward off the fear...

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A chorus of the hungry
Father, we are here, singing choruses
To a crowd of witnesses 
A scattering of utterances among crows 
Muttering things 
About this and...

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Eyes of Dawn

Eyes of dawn set forth your servant sun
As lilies yawn and rivers rhythmically run
Spread your luminance thru mountain peaks
Before cumulous clouds wake their...

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The altar showed anomaly,
an orb of light, 
a foil for small realities 
that I could easily forget 
but for that twilight cast, 
to things I...

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Timeless thoughts that echolessly evaporate
Thru mystic portals that relentlessly regenerate
Emotions deeply drowning in a black hole bliss
Deja vu dreams decaying of love’s first kissed
Fortuitously falling...

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Water Music 
Dribble dribble…and a bit more, then it 
is morning after a restless night. 
Outside a cold sun and icy wind; leaves,
many big enough...

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Without light, the world is cold and dark.
Sans decorous evergreens to light up the park.
Cries in the night, flesh hidden from view.
It’s a nightmare -...

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Jesus didn't remain at the manger scene,
Nor was time drawn out on the cross.
His stay wasn't long in a borrowed tomb,
But our earthly gain became...

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Decadent perimeter a decorous 
tray doth betray
Polished cart a nubile mask doth 
display
From black, coiffed locks baited line 
doth sway
From slippery, glossed lips a sweet...

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