Best Far Out Man Poems

He cocoons my cocoon
Warmer than friendship
Softer than love

All cloud hands and lay lines
Tracing his smile
If I were closer I would burrow 
Into his arms
Inhaling the...

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"Every struggle in my life has been a lesson
and made me stronger."
--Constance La France

I know that I am a far better man for my sorrow
The...

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After checking the Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs until their pages were torn and faded, we took one last look at the sales...

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Written by Gail DeBole  
and included in PS: It's Poetry
A PoetrySoup.com anthology published in 2020

Note: Grendel was the monster in the old English Heroic...

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Beatnik Snaps
       Onomatopoeia-topia

(poet sits on a stool in the café and begins)
I could onomatopoeia all day daddio
With cool sounds...

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Stone elongated nearly 4 thousand miles,
across the country of china, smiles.
The 16th century would see many small,
fortifications become a great wall.
The long wall's surface area...

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A lie slowly becomes' Mercy
As the truth suddenly becomes'
   Crystal clear,
           However,
There comes'...

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MOON LUST

Deformation of a stained moon,
(Lovers look at that far away man)

And his buttons pop pride full.
(Goose bumps appear as a wolf howls)

Spilled tears as...

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YES... I believe they surely will
With progress man has made in recent years
The technology has moved ahead
To such a degree in leaps and bounds
Decades ago,...

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Photos bomb social media.
While
Terrorists destroy livelihoods. 
War rages from within.
Crashing rathe upon distant strangers; us...
Pictures reveal this through social networking.
A quite distant war becomes real—too...

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In the primitive time,
Adam as I am known,
A rock in my hand.
what do I hunt?
what do I hunt?
beating the rocks, 
there was fire,
burnt my hair.

In...

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Turbulent waters have flooded the earth.  We watch, we
pray; seemingly helpless as family and friends are swept
away; spewing hate, placing blame, professing truth as
lies...

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what from the founder Aesop fell
	vital spark of heavenly flame
	unto my thinking thou beheld'st all works

	Who ever weeps somewhere out in the world
	Yellow butterflies 
A...

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JFK Improves With the Passing Decades

By Elton Camp

With all the praises being heaped today
Dare I speak negatively of Pres JFK?

For his legacy, death proved to...

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The vowel challenge........
Just to see what you guys can make of this little test.

The vowel challenge.

I want you to write a short poem with a...

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