Best Derelict Poems

DERELICT BEAUTY


Below drape of cotton clouds and sunshine,
some red-purple live pendants 
embrace the tall breathless wall...
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Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi Contest
Name: Three Line Poetry
Placed 5th

O.E. Guillermo
6:24 pm, March 15, 2015...

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The tide worn and barnacled pylons
holding up the wharf wobble 
on a sea swell like loose teeth.
Most of the decking planks
are missing. Those that remain 
span joists with bones
of rotted wood fastened down
with rust. A chain wire fence 
bars public access
and a large red sign
screams...

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plastic surgery
features are frozen in time
grimace locked in place


3~14~15
Three line poetry contest – Debbie Guzzi...

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Holes in his jeans, but a song in his heart

How easily his handsome smile stole mine --

Both jeans and heart!




*Written March 15, 2015, for Debbie’s “Three Line” poetry contest...

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twilight time

     at deserted shore ~
           
             abandoned boats flounder










16 March 2015 
Three Line Poetry - Poetry Contest :...

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forsaken beth-El
sermons echo while souls heed
spiritual light


3/14/2015...

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Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that matter
attested by increased
spike among multiracial
amalgamated enclaves, individuals mixing,
where preponderance of melanin

generally affecting predominance
regarding increasing swarthy
naturally copper toned skin
across vast majority...

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The wheels of time frozen, the vines intrude

weathered enclosure whispering tales of yore

resplendent in the setting sun, a majestic edifice

© Nadiya (15 March '15)

* Placed 5th in the contest 'Three Line Poetry' by Debbie Guzzi on 17 March 2015...

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Children filling it
with their running to and fro-
the derelict house....

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There once was a derelict named Hank
his show was just an outrageous prank
	he took their money
	thinking it funny 
and he laughed all the way to the bank...

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He walks with a limp, dog in tow,
lives on streets, 'neath an azure sky
says, "Morning," with smiles as he goes
Wears logo, "Like you, I could fly."
but people compartmentalize.
He's  one of the derelict crowd,
some say they must be disallowed.
Kindness calls us to  contemplate
what they...

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a
sad
portrait 
of neglect;
arresting garden
lovers manicured teemed with life,
lulled bees, butterflies; when their love withered on the vine,
it's beauty diminished by overgrown weeds; this abandoned garden: what might've been.



Writing Challenge - D words - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Word Choice: Derelict
Syllables checked at HMS
Date written:...

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rooster’s gaze fixed east
                         moss upon its left hip…
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I am, I guess, a tattered soul. 
A vagabond of sort. 
A derelict adrift at sea. 
No captain and no port. 

Nowhere to go, no one to guide.
This frail and haggard bark,
Aimlessly drifts out to sea, 
Piteously and stark. 

No pilot here the helm to...

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On my way down to New Jersey
to take care of business there,
I pulled off and up to this place,
where I got out to stand and stare.

This was the Kutchingkord Hotel,
the heart of the old Borst Belt,
looking at the ruins now,
you can barely even tell.

I came...

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