Best Excludes Poems
When Madness Rides On Moonlight...Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s concussion.
On and on, th......
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Categories:
excludes, god, life,
Form:
Sestina
When Madness Rides On Moonlight...Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s concussion.
On and on, th......
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Categories:
excludes, anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form:
Sestina
This, My Ink's Desire...
Yes…feel me, temper my insanity,
hold my fleshed passion as I connect
with an audience to share how a night
devours monsters at the seams.
And yet, this refrain loses as the final poll
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Categories:
excludes, art, identity,
Form:
Free verse
My Promise Land...to have and have not
is reason lent to logic
and reality left to disspare
to my heart oh, not where?
the place of peace not there
then where can the weary traverse
where the dreams are not ni......
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excludes, passionpeace, peace, rights,
Form:
Zen Math...Listen up and learn deep,
said the non-existential Zen Math teacher.
I'm only saying this once
and it will be on tomorrow's test
now nearly finished today.
1. All nomials are part of the unive......
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Categories:
excludes, humor, math, philosophy, teacher,
Form:
Prose Poetry
This Is How Life Feels When You Get To Be My Age...THIS IS HOW LIFE FEELS WHEN YOU GET TO BE MY AGE
I have a general philosophical precept
Life is in general a bowl of cherries except
When someone stabs me in the back who didn’t oughta
From a comp......
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Categories:
excludes, angst, funny, me, horse,
Form:
Couplet
Free To Disagree. Inspired By ' Free To Be Me."...There was this pristine poetess
who signed off: " Light and Love."
with the rocket plunge of osprey
and the soft cadence of a dove.
She grips each adverb tightly
measures out the slightest ver......
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Categories:
excludes, dedication, on writing and
Form:
Quatrain
Mule...Mutated meaning mutilated in existence
Utility in slave work the only definition left
Latent purpose without deferred fulfillment
Exempted from kind, creation's prophecy
2
Matt......
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Categories:
excludes, animals, faith,
Form:
Acrostic
True Justice...The 'Golden Rule' is an eternal principle for all mankind.*
Righteousness cannot exist without the presence of justice**
Universal fairness and respect are required for human coexistence
Evi......
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Categories:
excludes, community, jesus, love, people,
Form:
Acrostic
Kintsukuroi...Awkward abandoned outcast
Broken, battered, beaten
Crumbling from its misery and torture
Dead ere death nears
Everything returns
Fragility accents its blessing
Giving supplement to the split seams
Ho......
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Categories:
excludes, life,
Form:
Abecedarian
Dismantling of a Nation...Dismantling Of A Growing Nation
Back in late 70s, while I was just another fresh face in a local varsity....
Racial based politics was gaining grounds with public sympathies....
Remembered disti......
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Categories:
excludes, anxiety, birth, character, community,
Form:
Free verse
A Christmas Acrostic...abecedarian
Angels announced a special birth:
“Be not afraid!” Born in Bethlehem,
Come and see the Christ child,
Desire of Nations born in David’s town.
Emmanuel means God came to earth,
Fa......
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excludes, 11th grade, christmas, remember,
Form:
Abecedarian
Boy...What obstacle can there be between a boy and infinity?
Behind the old brick house, among countless fig and persimmon trees,
next to the concrete cistern and under a beautiful bright summer sky,......
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Categories:
excludes, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Gender Bender...GENDER BENDER
(Battle of the Sexes)
Today, I do admit I seem confused
About some common words that I have used.
I thought I was a female, not a male,
However now my gender must curtail.
Woke ......
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Categories:
excludes, gender, women,
Form:
Rhyme
The Christmas Tree...I just love the Christmas tree which we welcome into our homes,
Symbolising nature, the natural, challenging our views and roams;
Settling in our cosy living rooms, the empire of many, each of us,......
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Categories:
excludes, christmas, history, nature, tree,
Form:
Heroic Couplet