Best Eye Witness Poems

Eye witness sees
Pulse of dawn;
Stillness grooms

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Leaking faucet
Drop by drop;
Prayer beat chant

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Noise below
Skyscraper view;
Insects crawling

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Dry evening breeze
Noisy crickets;
March romance

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ATM bank queue
Mötley bunch;
Cash withdrawals

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Home movies
Two in a...

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Sole witness to the finished crime,
a crystal chandelier
pending above the victim.

Its throng of hanging crystals
tolling to the beat 
set by the predator's exit....

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Remember Humpty Dumpty
Who fell off the wall?
Well, it wasn't no accident
We can prove he didn't fall

It was a government conspiracy
They were testing a new glue
They...

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I heard the Star Spangled Banner tonight.
It has the power to move and captivate me still.
Images and emotions once again come to light.
It effects me...

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Eye witness they, O my mother, rag less I am.
You are the price maker but guilty I am;
So much needs, chastity at deal
Shameless crying, robbed...

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Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery

(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)


Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script 
Ah, I see "I" the spy...

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My DNA was planted at a crime scene
in an apartment that I truthfully have never been.
My fingerprints were found on the murder weapon,
a Bowie knife...

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A horrendous act
that could only be imagined
as Insidious and contemptuous
Many were massacred
Thousands displaced
The Hausa Militias took over
Zaria was in their palm
A horrendous act
That could only...

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We are like wiggling aphids on a quantum computer.
Knowledge beyond the scope of the most gifted tutor.
Spaces and dimensions multiplied by infinity, plus one.

Therefore, I...

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A nice veneer
Looking solid and good;
Termites devour within


Life hazards
Venture bleeding;
More vitamin M needed


Business failure
Shocking casualties;
Bankrupted parties


Spice can smell nice
But nice can tell lies;
Sometimes a vice


Impressive...

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Man surely she studied accounting, 
for she knew how to use what she had to get what she wanted.
she started and sold herself to men...

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Is there wisdom of the ages?
Thoughts many on ancient pages.
More than one interpretation.
Choose big bang or God's Creation!

For Julie-Michelle's contest "Unanswered Questions"

Many purport to know...

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Her life is a circus
Making a clown of herself
Lacks substantial purpose
Balance and health

One rope to another
Rocking her balance beam
The circus is her lover
Together they scream

Blackened...

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Somebody saw the enemy’s fearless leader
secretly slinking away
The battle in the blood desert field of Raqqa
was still raging on
Hell’s fury had more than a pound...

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I have always been curious about people from Kurdistan
I wonder why they are called kurds
I wonder when the kurds would become keese
Just like curd becomes...

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