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Best Foreseeable Poems


Premium Member The Gift
...From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross th......

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Categories: foreseeable, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
...The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds g......

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Categories: foreseeable, beauty, bible, confusion, courage,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Lighthouse
...Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
......

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Categories: foreseeable, light, metaphor, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Un-Forseeable
...And nothing is not
               un-foreseeable if and unless
                  you at least consider all
                the facts and complications
                              first!



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Categories: foreseeable, addiction, age, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Predictable
...Crocheting needles waved her fingers from a self-disclosed mind

Texture and pattern set lines like predictive text and autocorrect

Wool over her eyes would know how to stitch up her soul-scape
......

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Categories: foreseeable, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Love Hurts
...Northside of Chi-Town is full of emotion.
In the ‘45 Series Cubs and Tigers are battling.
Sianis buys two tickets to show his devotion.
Is booted ‘cause his billy goat won’t stop bahbling.
He cur......

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Categories: foreseeable, america, angst, baseball, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Our Amorphous Angst
..."I should have lost a gesture and a pose.
Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the moon's repose."
                         ---"La Figlia Che Pionge"; T.S. Eliot

Qu......

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Categories: foreseeable, angst, anxiety, dark, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dorm Love
...Ours was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical, 
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.

He was the presumably straight......

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Categories: foreseeable, culture, gender, history, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Nine Eleven
...The old woman argued relentlessly, her case.
Resolute, she raved in her conviction; 
two thousand and one reasons were there for her to be mad.
Eleven was given to questioning eyes.

It was Sept......

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Categories: foreseeable, anniversary, history, loss, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Classified Part One
...I have been instructed to release the following
manuscript on the death of my client
Mr John Phillips. Who was a former officer in the Royal Air Force.

Mr P.J .Carruthers.  LLB.
Solicitor fo......

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Categories: foreseeable, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Only Thing That Is Foreseeable
...Why does one write poetry?
To get lost in the solace of words,
to encourage one to look at birds;
or is it something much less communicable:
a state of being, like a look in the eye,
that is unr......

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Categories: foreseeable, deep, poetry, poets, simple,
Form: Grook
Retrograde
...
This relationship is going the wrong way,
it started off great, but as of late,
it has a foreseeable expiration date
Too many arguments,
too many dodgy eyes
Not enough trust between us,
go......

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Categories: foreseeable, hurt, love hurts, pain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Earth Investers
...I have occasionally wondered what is so controversial about the World Bank.
I understand protesters travel from all around Earth
to wave placards outside World Bank meetings
and I wonder why they ......

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Categories: foreseeable, destiny, education, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Trolls, Dragons, and Carol
...So you think that trolls and dragons
Are definitely not for real
You surely haven't talked with Carol lately
It's more than just a feel

They eat her food and occupy her house
Sometimes......

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Categories: foreseeable, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Lucifer Aint It Funny How Scott Always Seems 2 Get Off Free Ohh Father
...Ain't it Funny how

Lucifer once said to his father 

Some certain individuals 

No matter how guilty they are 

Or evidence doth incriminate them

Always seem to get off 

Scott Free

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Categories: foreseeable, slam,
Form: Free verse

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