Best Faceted Poems

In the endless expanse 
of what exists
and the magic of what can be...

fantasy is the luster of opalescence

conceived in a continual curve of mother-of-pearl panache...

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My life, like everybody else’s, is a treasure trove
with a mine from which one’s treasures are derived.
The familial bonds we form are platinum; our friendships...

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Oh! Luminous Star
Visible light so far up above
Music plays in your silent tranquil night
As we wish upon a star

Firefly’s beacon in velvet twilight
Hypnotic faceted beguiling...

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A mother’s ears become magic
the minute she hears her newborn cry—
nature turns up the volume
like at no other time.

The slightest cry, whimper, sneeze, cough, hiccup,
sounds...

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Brilliance and Madness

Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD

Rich playboy aviator Howard Hughes
With movie starlets kept...

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Enticed by his faceted aspects
                Political points show his honour
...

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I was an environmental scientist, working with large wind farm developers,
To harness wind and generate electricity, as a plum sun flees, to tell others.

I worked...

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I was a productive, proficient painter, long captivated by the manifold colors,
An infinite parade of hues and intensities, like tales of a thousand summers.

I worked...

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The center of a star reflects just like a diamond...
Returning a pearl within each silver breath that one treasures...
With faceted panels, I promised I'd never...
Sweep...

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OH VINCENT

Oh Vincent, can we ever know what torments plagued you; 
what demons fought you; what images raped your senses?
It was no accident that you...

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Life's Tapestry

Life begins: a single thread
Inlayed throughout as one
Faceted; a tapestry
Entwining hopes and dread
'Sembling  extracts not quite done. 

Torn brocades of woven silk
Aloft on...

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She was all that and much more
  The child with the smiles and the braids
    White dresses, friendly nods and compliancy
...

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I held the calligraphy brush and 
Practiced the movement for hours and hours
Somewhere betwixt art and dance
It was meant to look as effortless as a...

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I am a diamond, a faceted gem
One thousand faces each flawed are them
Some hold the truth but most hold the lies
Hidden barely behind all my...

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My existence-script authored by God
     presents varied genre-blends 
          beautifying every episode
...

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