Best Formal Poems

Haibun trying to read your mind from afar,
sitting acrostic from you at the bar.
Iamb itching to sit on the stool beside you,
but somebody's sonnet - and I don't think she'll move.
Are we just a couplet of friends having drinks?
Maybe you quintella me what you think.
I...

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The rule book
Of Society rules
We either live by the rules
Or be ruled unfit:

Toe the line
Walk that fine line
Keep in line
But never cross the line;

Speak up
Speak when spoken to
Speak politely
But never speak out of turn;

Mind your manners
Mind where you look now
Mind your Mama
Oh just never mind;

Look...

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They all heard him say in Calcutta,
addressing the ball, with his putter,
"Before we begin,
I'd quite like to win,
so please, pop it in," he would mutter.

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For Craig's 'Golf Limerick' Competition....

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MRS. SOCIETY WEARS IT TO ALL FORMAL EVENTS

So they trekked up the mountain covered with snow
surrounded by white with only one place to go
they were headed for a place where money could be made
but the job they do leaves so many squealing and afraid

spurs on...

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           There’s an urgent
 Need                       To collar
A Device.     ...

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Formal poetry I ignore, my Lord, thus I sing to Thee the way Thou grace has taught my heart!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
         08 July 2016...

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I burn in a light of ecstasy,
scorching the neighbours right next to me.
Show me the gates of prophesy
and torch our temple of memories.
Molten dreams flow out the seams,
denying the laws of gravity
as they capture every tower seen.
I am not the 'me' you know as 'me',
and...

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they all wanna know
how to write a haiku poem
educate yourself...

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In other words, 
     the bombing of China 
and the bombing of Hiroshima 
   were 
        done in form 
The chains must be broken 
so 
peace 
can 
enter into the fray 
...

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imagine that your love is infinite
assume that someone else's love is too
if you can count the days you've loved someone
and they can count the days that they love you
if you add a day and then they add one too
since their love fits inside them as...

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in park like beauty
tidy hedges and prim blooms ~
elegant wildness...

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MRS. SOCIETY WEARS IT TO ALL FORMAL EVENTS

So they trekked up the mountain covered with snow
surrounded by white with only one place to go
they were headed for a place where money could be made
but the job they do leaves so many squealing and afraid

spurs on...

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As I attempt 
to grasp poetic form 
  I stumble while 
reaching for the stars 
   I cannot stop the 
flow of words from my pen
   and do not want to 
So I will continue 
    to...

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We did not worship at the shrine of tears;
we knew not to believe, not to confess.
And so, ahemming victors, to false cheers,
we wrote off love, we gave a stern address
to things that we disapproved of, things of yore.
And the people loved what they had loved...

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The Forge
by Michael R. Burch

To at last be indestructible, a poem
must first glow, almost flammable, upon
a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,
 
then bend this way and that, and slowly cool
at arms-length, something irreducible
drawn out with caution, toughened in a pool
 
of water...

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