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Best Gelatinous Poems

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Premium Member The Unlit Flame At Blue Feather's Cross Roads
"The Unlit Flame at Blue Feather’s Cross Roads"



Words these days are seldom Red
like drops of lifeless blood falling cold on a hot frying pan,
sentences are...

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Categories: gelatinous, angel, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Traveling Light
I am a photon
a tiny bundle of energy.
My brothers and I
oscillate in synchronized breath;
as a wave, 
we hurtle
through black  voids,
three hundred thousand kilometers
each second,
a...

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Categories: gelatinous, light, nature, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jellyfish
Oh what a sad sight
When I went to the beach tonight
Twelve jellyfish washed up on the beach
Caught out by the tide, the sea's out of...

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Categories: gelatinous, beach, death,
Form: Rhyme
Traveling Light
Unburdened by mass,
star born 
photons
hurtle
through vacuum voids.

They reach a planet
where green continents swim 
in blue oceans.
It is night. A woman
looks up at the sky.

The photons...

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Categories: gelatinous, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Purple People Poem
Retro thrusters, smokey hot,
Thunder in the dim of night.
Sprouting things all green and broke,
Mutant brains are taking flight.

Mole like beasts with huge blind eyes
Push and...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gelatinous, halloween, horror, humor, imagery,
Form: Quatrain



Flan
Flan
 
The perfect dessert for me.
For it has the perfect texture , so consistent throughout.
It's gelatinous yet doughy body that is so sweet to the...

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Categories: gelatinous, family, food, friendship, funny,
Form: Free verse
Mating of the Rich and Famous
I once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating, 
or trust-I would have...

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© Gina Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gelatinous, animal, beauty, cat, dance,
Form: Prose
Devil Hold
If you were to embrace me one moment,
I would melt in the fissures of your throbbing prestidigitation
My heart would dare not let me see the...

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Categories: gelatinous, crazy, dark, evil, heart,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dominion
I remember taking Grandpa to the train,                  ...

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Categories: gelatinous, introspection
Form: Narrative
Premium Member When You Return
Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great...

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Categories: gelatinous, adventure, africa, black african
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Love's Labor
the baby's head
crowns as Father watches --
a dozen red roses


When but a speck gelatinous, unformed, you watched 
Watched as the determined swimmer pierced my soft...

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Categories: gelatinous, death, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Cribbar
Cribbar



I stand on the precipice,

I drink her eagerly from atop the raw stone.

Her jaws split open in bursts of pure, vicious foam around the feet...

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© Amy Acton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gelatinous, conflict, earth, growth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Manipulated
The autonomic response seeks a trigger
within familiar brainwave states of being
to toss aside the conflict of conscience
inherit behind the valor of mortal peril.

A batting eye...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gelatinous, philosophy
Form: Free verse
Two Flames
With gelatinous kiss inside his mind  
The sissy itchy lips of a woman flirt
God has given them the right to wink
Ah, two flames in...

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Categories: gelatinous, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, people,
Form: Free verse
Head Cold
There is a vicious, ground-dwelling creature
Burrowing into my skull,
Maybe a mole,
It doesn’t matter.  What matters is
My head is cracked and pillaged.
Instead of gray matter,...

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Categories: gelatinous, anger, humor, sick,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs