Best Effigy Poems

His eyes always see the beauty in my heart. 
An ugly duckling is the way I think of me.
He paints me as though I am a lovely work of art.
I'm not dainty like a hummingbird or a honeybee.

An ugly duckling is the way I think...

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I hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And the pain it inflicted
I look back at the unpaid ransom,
The whips, hands chained to the back
Faces buried deep into the...

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Late at night I hear the monkey’s laughing in the jungle
They are burning an effigy 
And they find it more than amusing
They find it comforting.
They built it out of broken dreams and green cards.
It was no accident that they built it
The moon and the tides...

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I grieve, 
But I do not grief for death,
Not for death? 
It's a grieve for the dead, 
But not of a thing that breathes 

Bitterness arrest my breast,
Woebetide my countenance 
That even an ocean of tears 
Cannot wash away the excruciating pain

I had my dream...

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Susan B. Anthony...an American "Suffragist" 
And also,  "Civil Rights Activist" 
For her, luckily 
Though she was hung, it was only in effigy! 


Educate Me With Humor-Leader Clerihew Poetry Contest 
Sponsor Andrea Dietrich 
1-24-2019...

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She stuck into me like a shard;
 “Pick me up,” she said.
I liked the way she beckoned;
She liked the way I bled.

She had the look that ruined gods,
With dark eyes and a temptress air.
She set fire to my virgin Eden,
And I burned within in her...

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I hold it up again today; the world,
Pregnant with magical dimples
Of a child's reckless abandon,
And look at the face,
Then I look at the deep cut
And the pain it inflicted
I look back at the unpaid ransom,
The whips, hands chained to the back
Faces buried deep into the...

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build me an effigy
red brick stone
one brick alone
a tear
a sorrow
a wall
built to contain
a soul maimed
build me a pyre
gold covered relief
a smooth curved bowl
made to hold my soul
set it afire
with belief (c)mjr 2007...

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H   A   R   S   H
B   L   E   A    K
T   R   E   E   S
R   E   G ...

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Broken millionths,
this brilliance;
reflect a fate in destiny
a mirrored effigy of mist

Beckoning in tendrils
caressed with ether,
carried into the mystical 
drifting to your name

Floated thoughts carry a scent,
shadowed regret darkened
and eased into mind,
bringing its own tragic smell
A started bond,
touted was this mating,
fruitless in foresight
thoughtless to fright,
entering your...

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Away in Mexican Isla de las Muñecas- spirits sway
Into the sobbing island green terrain domain
Wherever, I extend my eye high
I discover those hanging dolls clanging
As though actuating me queerly
To acknowledge something hairy 'n scary
In their eyeballs dim still 'n chill  
Covered in destroyed limbs...

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Is your ear corrupted
by what you see
Are the sounds distorted
in blind relief
Do the voices sleep
in images gone
Does a nightmare deafen
—tomorrow’s song 

(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)...

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I wiped the dust from its aged unveiling
From a secreted place where it had been carefully placed
It seemed inconsequential in its merit or value
But I opened to find a priceless, silent, narration of love

A wearied ring with a small, flawed single diamond
She had worn during...

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though they sought the gentle verse
a wracking pain drew up their purse 
as thoughtless sovereigns hissed their curse 
the dollars drained; their feign- rehearsed

this tragic dismantling 
ever-torn fabric seams 
flowing a pious demand of the feed 
groveling majesties 
planted their effigy 
cordially under the pew...

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