Best Fractious Poems
Shadows of Somber Skies
...She fell from the light, into a world shadowed in gray.
~ by poet
An angel pouted to protest her punitive plight
No repentant redempt......
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Categories:
fractious, angel, dark,
Form:
Alliteration
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
...
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten......
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Categories:
fractious, art, life, muse, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Easter Chicken's Lament!
..."Happy Easter To You!", is the greeting I hear them shout!
Alas, I just lamely roost here, brood, ponder and pout!
I've worked for weeks making eggs and I'm all tuckered out!
All this hoopla about......
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Categories:
fractious, funnyeaster, easter,
Form:
Rhyme
Neurosis
...I go by myself walking
I hear myself talking;
Then as I deliberate
On the direction of fate
That leaves me so anxious
With illusions atrocious
Invading my privacy
With the blight of absurdity.......
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Categories:
fractious, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Freeborn
...FREEBORN
Now ‘cross the fields and woods bird songs ring out
Unbounded exultation to survive
Their voices each a freeborn joyous shout
‘I am still here, a presence, had you doubt?’
Through ......
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Categories:
fractious, bird, life,
Form:
Villanelle
In Good Conscience
...IN GOOD CONSCIENCE
Heavily tread, are those small fractious steps
On the stairs to my own peace of mind
The sound of transgressions that I'd rather forget
is t......
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Categories:
fractious, introspection, sound,
Form:
Sonnet
Spenserian Sonnet To a Beautiful Lady
...Trochaic Pentameter
My love's spirit's gentle like a breeze that
blows cool o'er this my brow, most hot, feverish.
I am made calm by her presence like at
times when discontent doth make one pee......
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Categories:
fractious, love,
Form:
Sonnet
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Iv
...Pied tidings of suburbian
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among
Themselves -
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerne......
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Categories:
fractious, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Walk In Solitude
...A walk-in solitude, putting one foot
over the other, stepping over roots
to listen to the flutes of nature lutes
and silent subtle shift that are afoot.
Away from mental incessant chatter,
sol......
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Categories:
fractious, nature, peace, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Gateway To Hell
...Tales of sacrificed fear
on scared tortured terrain
wild strengths smoldering beneath
tantrums of the fractious.
Gateway opens, rocks vault, liquids spew
fires burn and soi......
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Categories:
fractious, natural disasters, nature, places,
Form:
A Thankful Life
...Time to think, a pondering, non action's prime.
Thank you Life for the always affirmative actions of folks with intent sublime.
~Thank you for the good intentions of the pure pacifist’s present l......
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Categories:
fractious, allegory, caregiving, childhood, devotion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Letter To Ellen Johnson - Sirleaf
...I rather watch a kestrel to see
Her swoop and swirl
The skies invisible maze
To feed the inhabitants of her nest
Her milk of gratitude
Morning begins with a bright darkness
And the beckoning ......
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Categories:
fractious, black african american, history,
Form:
Free verse
Cocktail Party
...Cocktail parties are an entrenched American custom, I suppose.
A forum to spew inane babble and where the booze freely flows!
I've suffered through more of them than I care to recall,
And I try to......
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Categories:
fractious, funny, people, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Echo Time
...Time echoes and resonates without language,
invests in green triumphal backdrop
below mystic blue sky,
splattered
Blossoming in yellows and spindling purples
blues and flaming orange,
fragile......
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Categories:
fractious, black african american, culture,
Form:
Free verse
Dump Trump the Demagogue Hitler Reincarnate
...Countdown to Armageddon precariously hinges
potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don
trumps presidential throne -
ships with ......
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Categories:
fractious, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: