Best Farsighted Poems


Premium Member O For the Wings, Eyes and Ears of An Owl
...O for the Wings, Eyes and Ears of an Owl
~~~
Assuming we could do eye-popping things
As does an owl flying the night on wings
When no one knows of antics in moonli......

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Categories: farsighted, fantasy, muse, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Eyes See
...I realize

I have real eyes

That see real lies—

     ~Nearsighted
          (rule of law)

     ~Farsighted
          (rule of lies)

     ~The "ayes" have it
       ......

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farsighted, conflict, corruption, hate, truth,
Form: Free verse
Sir Henry Morgan
...Sir Henry Morgan, Welsh born
Wasn't a pirate but a privateer so it's shown
As he had a document from King Charles II
Authorising to attack enemy ships for gain

His most famous attack was on
Pa......

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Categories: farsighted, history,
Form: Rubaiyat

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Premium Member Presidential Trivia
...President's Day is approaching so I thought I would further your education,
By revealing useless trivia about some of the dudes who've served our nation.

President Washington actually had to borr......

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Categories: farsighted, funny, history, old, old,
Form: Couplet
I Am Confused
...I have tried and I think I have tried
When you fail they are notified
When you shout they are silent
I will shout to that extent
You can live to tell
And forget to dwell
Among which is most significa......

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Categories: farsighted, feelings, irony, poetry, sad
Form: Rhyme
Four More Years
...Four more years
Four more years
Barack Hussein Obama
Four more years.

To continue the journey 
Begun four years ago 
To score aimed goal
Four more years.

To let not die 
The farsighted story
Of Ame......

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Categories: farsighted, political, planet,
Form: Verse


Giraffe Stands Tall
...G    golden motifs enamor a brown tapestry 
I      in galore of grace, a head is held high.
R     resplendent glory of the tallest creation 
A     ascending in attitude, seeks a heavenly sky 
F  ......

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Categories: farsighted, animal, beauty,
Form: Acrostic
Beautiful Nightmare
...3:33 am and my eyes feel the same open as they do closed

(I wonder if this is how she felt?)

Front teeth smother
Bottom lip,
(Except when I cough)


Stress stains my cognition.
Red drips ......

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Categories: farsighted, fantasy
Form:
I Am Confused
...I have tried and I think I have tried
When you fail they are notified
When you shout they are silent
I will shout to that extent
You can live to tell
And forget to dwell
Among which is most sig......

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Categories: farsighted, confusion, feelings, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Island
...we sailed to the island, the island, the island
and would stay there evermore
with nothing to read but coconuts
and cocoa berries upon the tree
with no barber, Dennis or lawman
things could ghet......

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Categories: farsighted, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Am Eagle
...I welcome the rising sun from the comfort of my aerie,
Surveying my domain - the mountains, streams and verdant prairie!  

I preen my feathers and flex my wings for another day of flight,
Soarin......

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Categories: farsighted, bird, creation,
Form: Personification
Feelings In the Rms Titanic Voyage
...On the North Atlantic, wind currents air are emanating from the farsighted North America.

wind howls!

“Sometimes you meet a person and you just click –you are comfortable with him, like you kno......

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Categories: farsighted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Pearl-Eyed Riser Part Two
...Blue 
Waves 
usher
ocean  dream
enchanting ripples,
whose hypnotic spell oozes charm,
for  yellow dawn pearl-eyed first light  riser’s coastal fog,
 stunned by the heavenly turquoise canvass  ......

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Categories: farsighted, beach, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Fibonacci
Distortion
...They kill for their namesake
Blinded with visions of righteousness
Mirrored with images of self
Sanctifying, with daggers plunging deep
Crowds gather in loyalty
Massed in fear, assembled in hatr......

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Categories: farsighted, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reposing In the Natural
...I will have no dirges sung at my funeral
No tear-jerking poems are to be recited,
Closed casket, I’m reposing in the natural.

Flowers I’ll appreciate your being liberal
You see, whe......

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Categories: farsighted, funeral, humor,
Form: Villanelle
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