Best Diminution Poems

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I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...

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If only the moon's diminution of the Sun

Could eclipse the hate humanity has spun

What a miracle of Nature THAT would be

One that wouldn't cause any...

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Fifty years ago this July
  Three American astronauts put the lie to 'Why'
On the surface of the Moon they made a pinpoint landing
 ...

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The eyes of mild dawn on the body of sky
No nose to smell
No ear to hear
No tongue to speak and taste
No hand to touch
No leg...

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New Year resolutions

They are back. Yesteryears’  resolutions
That  evaporated ere execution.
My first one this time around
Is that resolves shouldn’t get drowned
Or  suffer the...

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The first person who grew wheat
would have been called “wheat”
and hence the local chieftain and village folks
would have given a nomenclature
to his discovery,
honoring it with...

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wreathing this life's mind's eye - wrenched, gnarled, hit, burked
neurons in diminution - clashed, rammed, slayed
futility tops up canvass of murk
phonemes, words, phrases now frolicly...

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Once upon a solstice night
thou moon in perfect glory
hung an effervescent light
to tell a lonely story

A silhouette of pure white cotton
danced on the rain laden...

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On the day after Jesus’ death, on Preparation Day, 
Which was when the Jews removed yeast from bread, 
That was to be eaten like clockwork...

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I have dug this one out of the poetry attic; composed when a teen, hence the dated references. Fellow Soupers of my age-group (60 in...

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These graphite singularities
contain universes
unconceived,
awaiting
the Big Bang
of inspiration, but
narrative particles
escape like
Hawking radiation --
gravity’s diminution
evaporatively slow,
nearly virtual,
and random....

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since becoming housed here since this year
july first two thousand and seventeen, 
   tubby more precise where
with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs, 
...

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Take me back to the tryst
Love of ages is not my taste
Does stale love toast or fondle? 
But toast is the soul of love:
When words...

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^_^ ~~~~~~~~~^_^~~~~~~~~~              (0_0)         ...

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via unspoken mandate, and 
thence subsequently, when receiving 
presents galore, tis incumbent to craft
sincere polite thank you note 
(written in calligraphy if possibly)

to evince real...

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