Best Exfoliated Poems
Wooded DestiniesThe sun-bleached exoskeletons
of old dead trees stand like sentries
along the towpath riverfront
exfoliated and gangling.
In a former age they stood tall,
grandiose to all passerby’s
but they too are dead to recall
their once impressive colossi.
Eventually these remains
will meet their final destinies:
to fall-never to rise again-
among forgotten progenies;
yet...
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Categories:
exfoliated, nature,
Form:
Verse
Beware the Man In the MaskThe mask, with eyes brighter than the most brilliant star,
Reflecting the sunshine & blue Ocean beyond, his eyes twinkle
He smiles, I am dazzled, hypnotised...almost
Powerless I am drawn to him, he is the strongest magnet
I am under a spell of the highest...
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Categories:
exfoliated, abuse, boyfriend, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Cityscapes 2Deserted financial centre
Ghost town after dark;
Weekend constellations
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Blank myth created
To express a fond wish;
Merlion antiquity
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Old neighbour nods
Smiles in recognition;
Civilised exchange
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Sing-song Good Morning
Little boy entertains;
Proud parent smiles approval
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New journal pages
Awaiting sanguine soliloquy;
Expansive permutations
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Words on a page
Taut revelations;
Insider trading conspires
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Psalm of morning hues
Sunburst meditation;
Light speed aura
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Evening sitcom moments
Scripted...
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Categories:
exfoliated, change,
Form:
Haiku
Road To DamascusROAD TO DAMASCUS
Granite faith exfoliated by superguns and sanctions whirls,
on this earth succumbing into dry spell of peace,
War-crats and confidantes skinning freedom from its people
Kofi drinking coffee with revolutionaries and revolutionaries in
Aleppo cafe on his way to Damascus
Daughters eating NGOs, GMOs, condoms and twitter
Bullet...
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Categories:
exfoliated, africa, age, allegory, betrayal,
Form:
Epitaph
Exfoliation I AmEXFOLIATION, I AM
In my advanced age am I but
The castoff--remnants
Of a vitality that once was and has been pushed aside?
Am I only...
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Categories:
exfoliated, allusion, bereavement, family, happiness,
Form:
Light Verse
In the Never of Her MindIN THE NEVER OF HER MIND
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her face hangs on two hallways of her mind
one overlooking the essentials and joy of life
and those half-blind fingers ask her what she sees
is it that ghost of past hurts or the disgusting future?
with burnt skin...
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Categories:
exfoliated, hope, introspectionbaby, baby,
Form:
Free verse
Cast and CrewExfoliated Eddie is an eagle eyed spy
He likes hot Hoxton coffee with his cold Shepherd’s Pie
Crazy for a Sheffield lass, a Steel City shrew
Her conversation’s retro but her attitude is new.
Flopping like a flapper in a 20s Bluebell hat
Comes Information Irene with her ever ready...
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Categories:
exfoliated, nonsense,
Form:
Ballad
Sahara MoonThe Sahara's flaring moon
weaves sand castles in hombre dusk,
jacquard ridges unraveling down burlap slopes.
Under taupe sky a balmy loom
spins dust into tawny gold for a sultan sun,
eroding an oasis to sate his rapture
with effete wealth tatted in the shadows
cast by white peacock clouds
floating above...
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Categories:
exfoliated, color, imagery,
Form:
Ekphrasis
God Is In ControlJohn 1:9 KJV (We confess our sins & He faithfully forgives, cleansing us from all unrighteousness)
I fell to my knees as the preacher prayed over me with a hand on my shoulder
and with one gentle touch he showed me God's monogram signature of...
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Categories:
exfoliated, appreciation, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Great CharadeIt happens to be that we all perceive
in a grand allegiance never brought into question
as though the clocks have been frozen
giving us all tock subtracted from tick
and Change the poster child has a gun to its head
in the hand of an empty headed juvenile
a caricature...
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Categories:
exfoliated, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Burning TreesThe suns eye is falling, ash from the ground drowns the trees
In a sea of dark grey and exfoliated black leaves Falling…
singing a song that echoes through the woods of this cradle of life
only a few rays can pierce through the thick smoke that has...
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Categories:
exfoliated, art, nature,
Form:
Prose
Apocalypse IiNight was drowsy and opiated,
Hollow moon suspended,exfoliated
Over the spiraled staircases,
Blood drips chaotic from anemic faces.
I can hear the dismal cacophony..
Girls, gaunt cheeks, bones scrawny
wobbling in perpetual hysteria,
Clock of apocalypse ticks, Mamma mia!
Life is a kaleidoscope made
By a magician and it is said
That he knows...
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Categories:
exfoliated, allegory, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Sides CoincideSlotted abruptly into a concept
Bold intimation begs he correspond
Gypsy psyche brown moth becomes windswept
Attempt to bracket him or wander on
Waiting with pattern disrupted, fear tinged
On crops offering fluffy promises
Closing chapter rips lustre from bronze wings
Field generosity astonishes
Cotton airborne released from spindly twigs
Soul exfoliated floats borderless
White...
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Categories:
exfoliated, anxiety, baptism, blessing, environment,
Form:
Sonnet
Expiring Experienced Excited Emusexpiring experienced excited and enticed enthusiastic emus
extracted exact experimental explosives from exfoliated flues
exasperating exam-free extraterrestrial expedition views
extraordinary x-rayed exclamations exuding as clues....
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Categories:
exfoliated, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
When I Bleed Out In Front Of You
{"Hadn’t you known, or care to acknowledge that I am wholly fond of my life as of right now?
I’m in love with the lighting that shoots and grazes my neighbor's balcony as I sit in front of my own, just by looking or glancing...
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Categories:
exfoliated, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form:
Free verse