Best Deigning Poems

PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Standing before this refulgent pool of reflection
Rhythm obviates the need for a new direction;
Ocular atrocities; I view my deeds in serious light
Cursed mortal, deigning his...

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In a hallowed grandstand,
I do quietly sit,
high above the noise
and ruckus of the pit.
Staring out upon 
a curving, long race-track,
as thoroughbreds set off
running races back-to-back.
Around...

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A vociferous yowl came down to earth and slaughtered my soul
I was in deep sleep, lids were lead, and dreams were wavering spool
My problem sat...

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Discovered:  Two Ibis at the edge of the lake 
in compatible company of four Canadian Geese
who've absented the gaggle of twenty or more,
daily in...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE: 42

If you pull a long-bored acrimonious face
Looking hardly at anyone passing your way
Your sunken cheeks spiting your own face
But...

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like some sorority or fraternity house 
   left the sanctified righteous West Wing 
with powder puffs sans canisters 
   of pepper...

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It’s not all easy being favoured as a great gifted poet
All this deigning and stooping just to let people know it

They do deign but I...

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when Democrats outliers gnashed
teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws 
pistol whipped and hashed 
tagged traitors who roared America 
went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed

when...

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It’s not all easy being favoured the great gifted poet
All a deigning and stooping just to let people know it

But that’s not the worse of...

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Spring is cold and wet- buds reluctant to open - trees seem veiled in
smoky see through color- an occasional tulip shivers alone-daffodils
have long since left...

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It’s not all easy being favoured as a great gifted poet
All this deigning and stooping just to let people know it

But that’s not the worse...

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It is not all easy being favoured as a great gifted poet
All this deigning and stooping just to let people know it

But that is not...

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A surrender by the face of its brightness,
Worried legs avoiding the closest:
On once-proud shoulders, a pronounced lightness
And self-biting lips pursed not in pretext.

A restraining of...

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It’s not all easy being favoured as a great gifted poet
All this deigning and stooping just to let people know it

They do deign but I...

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