Best Garishly Poems

Devastated by betrayal,
my heart is reeling from its sting.
And amidst abject solitude
I struggle, alone with my pain.

I hear the thumping of my heart,
dismantling dreams with every beat. 
And it's pounding garishly loud,
racing to accommodate fear.

My teary eyes scan the night sky,
to wish upon a shooting...

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Stilled again across the canals broadening 
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions 
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the hot glare of the sun...
Provoking images and stirring indefinable feelings
That begin to irrevocably up and run;
Pictures and voices crowding...

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The ground gaped garishly, gored with ghastly gouges of glowing, gravelly gobs ...

Finally unfettered from a frigid firmament, flames flung fiery, flaring fingers 
          ferociously forward ...

The blazing bastions bent on burning the backwood bluffs bare...

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Meandering memories 
move through my mind 
like a river flowing   
to the salty sea. 

Limbs stretch lazily 
reaching skywards 
like the gangling 
branches of an ancient tree. 

Standing still in 
the solitude of 
suspended time; 
lazily picking flowers,

the hours melt away 
as I...

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The sun drenchs and heat soaks the air.
It throbbs with fumes.
The drivers of the three wheeled, canvas covered
taxi’s curse, beep, and press
their way between motor cycles
with garishly clad riders.

Males in western-style helmets 
drive women, dressed in peacock-colored saris,
down the main boulevards between
the Mercedes of diplomats...

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Manitou slides 
Doppelgänger silhouette
Ballet prides 
Twisted contorted pirouette
Pierrot dolls glare twingingly 
Stare wistfully from shaded mottled space
Ventriloquist disgusting tricks
From two deceitful 
Face
The magicians hook 
Stare garishly
Whilst he wilfully reels in
Audience of ooh faced crowds
Doused in doubt, at just whats
Happening
A rocking horse
It squeaks the boards
With no...

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Here I found a cruel necessity for a new, chilling ambience
There was even a need for the drifting fogs of dreary past 
A need for the blurred emptiness that sadness elates
An unimpeded appetite for a long lost banister of emotional distain

Negative pores glimmered petulantly on...

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From the woolly blanket of stygian gloom,
Sun has emerged beaming garishly bright.
Bees buzz around flowers that bloom.

Between the twilight gloom and the golden light,
Earth looks like a maiden, just woken up from sleep.
Joggers are out for their routine walk in rising zest.

The village lies quiet,...

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THAT MOTHER MARY WAS A REAL MOTHER

They teach, they preach, and reach incongrous conclusions for their congregants
and do so with arrogance
because the preacher has a predeliction toward facing Satan toe to toe 
as he gathers all his ducks in a row
the ducks being an awed...

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Blinded by shining shards of sunlight
reflecting off sandy summer shores,
give pause to wonder what unworldly sight
hides beneath ocean’s watertight doors.

The Sun, father of the shoreline
instructs his lazy children to light the way
for beach combers and bathers-in-the-brine
who worship the Sun and sand as play.

Burned flesh and...

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Garishly gold pots of miser's old
Cut out's sold for dime and dollar
Nothing real gave out by the shcholar
God gave out such a roaring 'holler

Follow the heart's treasure
Give truth and love's pleasure
Cut to the chase and simply
Erase the rest, give God your love
And put your life...

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A SOUL SMOTHRED IN SYMPATHY 

I need you like a rose needs rain
I need you like I need life sustaining air
I need you for my garden is now in pain
My garden and I, one mournful pair

Drip drip 
Drip on lips that lie
Drip drip
Drip from eyes...

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A SOUL SMOTHRED IN SYMPATHY 

I need you like a rose needs rain
I need you like I need life sustaining air
I need you for my garden is now in pain
My garden and I, one mournful pair

Drip drip 
Drip on lips that lie
Drip drip
Drip from eyes...

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A SOUL SMOTHRED IN SYMPATHY 

I need you like a rose needs rain
I need you like I need life sustaining air
I need you for my garden is now in pain
My garden and I, one mournful pair

Drip drip 
Drip on lips that lie
Drip drip
Drip from eyes...

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All around me the land suffers too much greening.
The luxuriant froths over into a feverish lush.
Birds cannot consume all the insects.
Snakes cannot eat all the birds.
The ground hogs on the swill of decay.

If this is natures wealth then a little poverty
is needed, a tax on...

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