Best Extrication Poems
Salieri Soliloquy
...You give me the desire
a love for composing
word symphonies
yet you give me
the cross of mediocrity
to bear
day by day to know
there are others
who are prodigies
and I must hear
the thun......
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Categories:
extrication, poetry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Regressive Progress
...In Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn't happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
......
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Categories:
extrication, fear, health, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Avariciously She Wanted To Be a Poetess
...Two Poems
Avariciously she wanted to be a poetess
Cryptic colloquial eloquent words possessed
Often elusive eschewed from the theme
Limericks and rhymes avoiding etymology means
Sh......
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Categories:
extrication, humorous, poems,
Form:
Can'T Make a Monk Out of Me
...A plush monk’s life was my designation
Before the process of dissolution
Then back to now, fast extrication
From enforced seizure and desecration
A simple life it was for me
Amid fertile land,......
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Categories:
extrication, history,
Form:
Light Verse
Self-Interrogation
...Self-Interrogation
by Odin Roark
How carefree the traipsing inward
Responsibly free
Charging capsules
Poured golden or clear liquid
As acceptable excuse
Yet once inside
Accountability r......
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Categories:
extrication, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Pecking Sounds
...Pecking Sounds
For several days, I was both annoyed and worried. Annoyed by the pecking sounds; worried over possible damage to my house by something that I could not readily figure out. I suspecte......
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Categories:
extrication, adventure, animal, hilarious, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnet 5
...Now comes the day when thou art no more here
To prattle with me rend’ring soft delight
As thy heart knew that mellow joy, clear,
Untainted free from world’s many a plight.
Transcending din of t......
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Categories:
extrication, love,
Form:
Sonnet
The Buddhist At the Dentist
...The Buddhist monk
Following dental examination
Refused an injection
For his required dental extrication
Instead he chose to
Transcend dental medication......
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Categories:
extrication, funny
Form:
Kitty In a Soup
...Kitty In A Soup
Our town has its usual vertical ups and downs and horizontals
One day a gray kitten still finding its way
Discovered a long cylindrical corridor
A seeming hallway or in its tin......
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Categories:
extrication, adventure, animal, cat, cry,
Form:
Free verse
Extrication
...i’m talkin’ to you through a screen, it hurts that i can’t touch you,
too much space in between, i wish i had a time machine,
not to pick **** up where we left off, just to wipe our slate clean,
i......
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Categories:
extrication, absence, break up, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Tangled
...
that once came more simply.
What of love, when all must
magically work together?
When we fell in its quest
did we wish to be cut free
or lifted and untangled
so we may stay or walk away
once more whole?
(Inspired by Stephanie Deshpande's painting "Extrication")......
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Categories:
extrication, love,
Form:
Free verse
American Revolution Reaffirmed
...Our Revolution sought limitations
On imposition of regulations,
But supplications met deprecation
And castigations not reformation.
Such condescension sparked protestation
And contemplation of......
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Categories:
extrication, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Extrication
...An attic full holding me earthbound
thunderous applause without virtue of sound
looming overhead no room left for expansion
Wall to wall misery held without ransom
Offering no absolution a gl......
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Categories:
extrication, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Junk
...Today is the day.
The day to put in records.
The day of extrication.
The day of riddance.
My albums are clean.
Swept them before dawn.
My archives are clean.
I reviewed it down.
The photo......
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Categories:
extrication, break up,
Form:
Free verse
I Don'T Rap Like Rappers Or Write Like Poets
...i don't write poems like poets
or rap like rappers
i flow boats like rowers
talk what matters
wasn't raised on council estates
still a victim to down force weight
gravity pulls seeds from trees......
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Categories:
extrication, how i feel, me,
Form:
Rhyme