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Best Diagonal Poems

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Premium Member Checkmate
why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?

Arthur...

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Categories: diagonal, death, metaphor, war,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Easter Dinner
EASTER DINNER

they liked the one behind me
the teal and black checkerboard
its sparkling tiles on the diagonal
red, yellow, blue, pink pillows
on sofas and chair

the sunrise was...

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Categories: diagonal, art, easter, food,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Driving in the Snow with One Windshield Wiper
Diagonal snow
Glides effortless through
the countryside of the
Amputee windshield
For the passenger side
Has always had a reticent view

Steam rises loftily
From a topless treat
Of gas station coffee
That which...

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Categories: diagonal, loneliness, memory, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
White Dot
Frog playing violin
                      ...

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Categories: diagonal, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Toastmaster
Breakfast is the most important meal and it’s the one that I like the most,
So you can imagine my disappointment when the chef makes us...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diagonal, caregiving, father, funny,
Form: Light Verse



Books Etched In Stone
The community cemetery adjoined
the rear fence-line of his property.
Broad, rolling green acres landscaped
with varieties of shrubbery and trees.
Monuments in lines, rows, and diagonal patterns. 
Most...

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Categories: diagonal, appreciation, memory, remember,
Form: Prose Poetry
Edith's Hefty Handbag
Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all...

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Categories: diagonal, humor, humorous, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holograms and Hieroglyphs
Holograms and hieroglyphs

The whole weighs heavily
touched caressed lightly 
brushed on feather canvass
granite marble marvellous papyrus 
innocence rejuvenated
partial and impartial

Chiselled in and out
of comprehension angled
layered facets...

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Categories: diagonal, space, time, travel, truth,
Form: Free verse
A Kings Game
With pawns to sacrifice and a king protect,
silent and wooden, they shan't object.
Ever forward and never back,
North east and north west, pressing the attack.
Denizens of...

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Categories: diagonal, fantasy, games, metaphor,
Form: Ballad
Upon a Celestial Wind
UPON A CELESTIAL WIND

UPON A CELESTIAL WIND
aPproaching the speeD of light		
loOse particles gathEr,			
iroN, carbon, silicon…			
many Atoms Form			
amino aCids, mIcrobes			
as biochEmical compouNds,		
as molecuLes that			
created seEds of...

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Categories: diagonal, creation, science,
Form: Free verse
The Pegasus' Derby
racing along the crescent rainbow track into the human race
a starting gate drawn on a diagonal perspective to innovation
breaking the colour spectrum like a powerful...

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Categories: diagonal, horse, imagination, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Artificial
Diagonal streams now  stripe the windowpane
And in them, tiny insects drown and die.
Unexpected ,sudden rain  has come.
Those escape who have  the wings...

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Categories: diagonal, addiction, allusion, technology,
Form: Sonnet
Still Life
bottles of empty plastic
ancient breathing machines
electromagnetic fields in
eyes ears and air
inner child is waking up
books and crumbled clothes
sleeping in a disorganised
diagonal bed
hugging like blissful
children
i am...

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Categories: diagonal, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
Bring Brring Telephone Calling
'BRRRING BRRRING' said the telephone

“Oh hello” said the wide viewfinder to the telephone. “How are you today?” The telephone fell silent. Very silent. It had...

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Categories: diagonal, bangla, baptism, baseball, beach,
Form: I do not know?
Jealous, Jealous, Jealous
Jealous, Jealous, Jealous

The swiftness of the Vessa just killed me, 
That speed and the grandeur of the seat, 
The frame’s shine and the four wheels...

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Categories: diagonal, caregiving, child abuse, education,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs