Best Eschews Poems

The grass
alas
is shorn
like corn
the dew
eschews
forlorn
this morn

the crowd
avowed
the ball
and all
then groans 
and moans
clubs thrown
are known.

Embued
and hued
the words
like swords
wrong swing
the sting
bad lie
too high

the squeeze
on knees
in pleas?
to seize
the...

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Misleading, minacious maze now thwarted,
eschews stealth as sandal-clad steps resound.
Determined and dour, destiny draws near;
completing this quest: forever renowned.

Stygian sky grants a much-welcomed boon:
conformable clouds...

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At the end of Mercy Street
lies a forgotten wharf.
A single row boat is 
moss covered.
The battered vessel is 
moored and unwanted
like leprosy -
conducive to an...

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Sages say it's wise to persist
In striving for respect over love.
Such counsel I readily dismiss
One is set here, the other above.

Respect requires a clinical bent
Empathy-empty...

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We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and...

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I'm longing for warm eel pie,
tis' a squirming delight to the eye,

     me wife she eschews,
     eel...

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I love her limpid, clear blue-eyes
      and her long, yellow tresses;
wise, and with grace that never dies
   ...

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The tortured mind 'tis that causes pain
Knowingly, to others with abandonment
Sticking out its venomous tongue again,
Dissing others, but to its own detriment.

It cannot seem to...

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The perfect woman is both lovely and charming
She carries herself with a sophisticated air of feminine grace
Gentle and loving and brimful with laughter,
Yet showing at...

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Iron bars bent open begins the show
A black and white striped bonanza
A ballet of bravado under midnight skies

The bashful dancer eschews an eager audience
A plethora...

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agape gave grave to age
bent not to burdens born
cleave verily the leaves of life
distilled stilled styled reviled
entry net try and try
filigree reeds figure loosely
grave gave...

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a metaphor is
a simile
you don't like

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it is not in my 
nature to write
senryus

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baby tries on boots
without crying,
eschews fits
...

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[bard1]
To wit, sans pearl, mere grit and sand,
an irritant, sebaceous cyst,
expressive as a mongrel’s gland,
self-seeking randy churlish tryst!

[bard2]
Eccentric heel’s ethos raised grand,
eschews finesse, rough skewers...

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Fake Jesus here and there
He displays despaired files
Which are indeed lies
Flies and will many everlasting life slice
The blood of many souls cry
The pulpit, holy demons...

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ESSENTIALS

visual language
  with
explicit 
traces
   of  experience
eschews  
categorisation
   limited
only
 by number
of the
little
 &
  defunct
freedoms
 of a subliminal
 kind
so  strangely
familiar

 something 
of
an icon
in perspective 
in
manifested 
in
perhaps
unsurprisingly
 rare
& privileged
 light
&echoes
more focused
 with the same
passion
 & obsession
with imitation
 with
 & imagination
 beauty &rhythm
confronting
experience 
with
innocence
 transcending
potential


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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