Best Escalates Poems
A Kept Woman...Dream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a mascu......
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Categories:
escalates, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place...The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thri......
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Categories:
escalates, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Heart's Slumber...I'm a sinister shell,
lost in bygone
deepwaters of
gravity-less
cerulean tears,
that saturate
molten sundrops,
falling from
zinc-plated skies,
as heliophilic snow,
melts frosted
m......
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Categories:
escalates, angst, deep, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Escalating the Muse...
"Escalating the Muse"
Written on the body
passive complacence
stretches sharp ink
etched pain in the soul
then real beauty
from the
Book......
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Categories:
escalates, muse, truth, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Tears When My Fingers Hurt - a Collaboration With James Swartz...When my fingers hurt
the pain binds and forms
at the base of my greatest fear
I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce that
What words were on the tip of my tongue
Are dry......
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Categories:
escalates, anxiety, fear,
Form:
Free verse
Awake Sweet Stolen Dream... "Awake Sweet Stolen Dream"
I wandered outside my conscious element of thought
drifting into wonderlust of dreamland sequences like photographs
as I inhaled fragrant winds gliding upon go......
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Categories:
escalates, love, heart, sweet, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Confined Mind...Untamed self control my own worst enemy I can be
I can not be the poison and the remedy
The voices I hear are not in my head
I hear the words as if they’ve been said.
Horrific thoughts I must end......
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Categories:
escalates, character, , cute,
Form:
No Set Future...As I pass through time
in my physical vessel
I connect the rhymes,
balancing them on my mind's trestle.
My consciousness detaches
from emotion and commotion
and intricately latches
onto an o......
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Categories:
escalates, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Seduced By Poseidon's Daughter...As rippling horizon
douses fiery orb,
you are at your
most alluring.
Ethereal,
diaphanous limbs
stretch out,
reach for me,
beckon to me.
Barely audible murmurs,
laced with
forbidden prom......
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Categories:
escalates, heartbreak, lust, metaphor, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Consider Then...News flash
Paris attacks;
Violence strikes
~~~~~~~~~
Innocent deaths
Terror unveils;
Death delivers
~~~~~~~~~
Madness conspires
Human debris;
Bigotry unleashed
~~~~~~~~~
......
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Categories:
escalates, change,
Form:
Haiku
Mayhem...World abandonment
vanity infests
greed escalates
charity nullified
Competitive paradise
prices uncontrollable
hunger staggering
debt maximized
Honest lost
integrity futile
words miscon......
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Categories:
escalates, on work and working
Form:
Free verse
Tears When My Fingers Hurt- a Collaboration By Akkina Downing and James Swartz...When my fingers hurt
the pain binds and forms
at the base of my greatest fear
I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce that
What words were on the tip of my tongue
Are dry......
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Categories:
escalates, fear, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Spreading Happiness...Send the world a message with a smile,
Put on your happy face, cheer up, and
Remember to laugh once in a while.
Experience this moment in time,
And allow yourself to feel happy.
Don't ever forg......
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Categories:
escalates, anxiety, culture, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Acrostic
Valentine's Day Cynic...The usual tat overflows on the shelves
Such items we’d never buy for ourselves
Chocolate hearts wrapped in shiny red plastic
At a seven pounds each the prices are drastic!
A ......
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Categories:
escalates, humorous, money, satire, valentines
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Flowers...Tulip heads mingle with paper whites, floral party escalates.
An Guests bunnies and squirrel’s join the celebration.
Beneath the dogwoods, dandelion heads awake.
......
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Categories:
escalates, beauty, flower, garden, poems,
Form:
Sijo