Best Folly Poems

               A coloratura rises 
                          from...

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with passion’s brilliant mediocrity
we sparked a flame with tragedy
it was our common fantasy

what a candid lie we chose to sing


while watching worlds were turning
we rubbed two thorns with yearning 
we set emerald cities burning 

what a candid lie we chose to sing


adoration reeked of haughty...

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Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back together again...
Each of us witnessed her fall,
yet we failed to gather those colourful leaves.
I believe we could have laid them...

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The folly of the fight


These four walls; such contemptible and wretched creatures-
mock me, taunt me, deride me as weak and worthless.

I am shackled to the two evil twins-Misery and Myalgia.

As I wrestle with my afflictions, I throw tantrums-like a feral beast 
charging towards the drawn...

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We will all die
So we cry loud
And try for thought.

Wrong lane, wrong way.
Death delay, pray.
Cars stray and honk.

Oh, please, cars – clear.
Turns appear soon,
I steer, we cheer.


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Gunfire lit the clouds
as the weeping sky shed her
tears on Flanders Fields...

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We are off on a long DRIVE to see the famous, re-known big FIVE,
Three hours later at the Kruger National Park we safely arrive,
And cruise among predatory country, beautiful, colorful wildlife,
Full of LIFE the two of us, my husband and his very excited WIFE.

We see...

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I’m a stodgy old lady with suddenly too much time on her hands.
I was always too work worn to make big Halloween plans...

But as I walked thru Walgreen’s to get my latest meds…
I came up the isle to the You Know- Hoo Hoo of a...

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How Can Deep Folly, Abject Blindness Banish Hope
   (How Easily We Are Deceived, Hope Lost)


I recall darkness, creeping edges of power
ease of entry in that first forlorn hour.
No worries, as it entered with its soothing host
aye, but with one true goal, my soul...

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neath darkening sky
swept away, flowers take wing 
in winds brisk surfing
rustling leaves, swaying branches
weaving springtime morns glances

2/19/2022


A Brian Strand Tanka Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand

 a tanka in English is a 3 line hiku & a 2 line couplet...

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A grenade was placed inside my head to suspend me from my hobby.
The smoke did rise and choke my friends as I exited from the lobby.
A wicked shadow my path did cast that long lost working day,
it’s a shame I had to go insane and...

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The world is an awful place
so much going on so bad
it seems it's always been like that
looking on it's so very sad

But can nothing be done?
it's a really awful place
wherever one goes about
awful testimony of the human race

Evil is evident to triumph
what a picture this...

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The Folly of Man

Into that great abyss we speak fortunes, wants and frustrations
Seeking that witch can only give us solace to that that never bothers.
A million prayers go out into the night with fear and supplications
Only one eye open, and that half seeing the plan...

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Forests are felled
There once dwelled life -
Now quelled by greed.

Pulp to paper -
The razor tears
Through curtained flesh

Let’s laud our wit -
Bark - on it.. We
have writ   ‘Save trees’!


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Than-Bauk (Non Staircased) 
Internal rhyme...

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Pained am I with the waste of life,
Of dreams that lie like myriad shards,
Of hopes and love left far behind,
Taking flight on withered wings of
Unrequited expectations.

Sad am I that young roiling blood
Is stilled, silenced, with abandonment.
Where is the burning zeal and zest,
Brash bravado and youthfulness,...

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