Best Glosses Poems

time heals or so they say
gives the illusion of comforting

barely ~ it merely glosses over
at best of times dulls our suffering

we learn to live with pain
grin and bear the heartache

we befriend shadows in the dark
through the night that keep us awake

we manage to calm the...

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(Jodhpur is a beautiful, cultural, historical city in Rajasthan, India. This poem is all
about Jodhpur from her mouth as she told).


Left behind her beamish days of time of life, her days of girlhood…
Left behind her mother’s warmth and faced against frailties,
She left behind her father’s...

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Dependable Defender Jésus Christ of Nazareth Football Club

This morning lost His appeal for the red card He received

During His side game with the highly rated Pharisees

He’ll  be unavailable for their match against the Sadducees


He was sent off by no-nonsense referee Pontius Pilate

For defeating a...

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With much trepidation I visited the local "hair stylist" today.
It was a "hair raising" experience as compared to barbers of yesterday!
'Twas thirty years since I'd heard the snip of a barber's shears,
Since my long-suffering wife had trimmed my hair for many years!

My hair had become...

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“Stealers-Keepers” Questioned

By Elton Camp 

If something has been stolen long enough
Then is it all right simply to keep the stuff?

The Guggenheim some art to Italy has sent
Illicit when bought, they had more than a hint

To the original owner, stolen stuff should go
At least United States...

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 When evening red surrounds our dream 
A varnished crown glosses the breeze;
To summon love's ascent, upstream
On river's bend as moist lips tease.

A varnished crown glosses the breeze 
Here,  stars wiggle in blazed delight;
On river's  bend as moist lips tease
When embers of dusk...

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Secrets hide in playgrounds
Tall shadows for concealing
Sandboxes glow all around
Gloom feeds off feelings

Bad dreams pose as fakes
Old lies parade and glare
Shame glosses most mistakes
Loneliness mixes with despair

Secrets hide in playgrounds
Empty words drop and roll
Silence screams clear and loud
Sins and gin drink up lost souls

Hearts burn...

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she, who in a moment of self-realization,
looked in the mirror & saw that the lips that she
was shuffled accidentally by evolution
(just as you got big feet & the next got deep brown eyes)
were not up to code in her book,
that is,
she decided that her life...

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flights of yellow---

 glosses lucid east wind

spreading pollen





Haiku: Rick Parise Contest
theme: stairway/ east wind...

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Polish
by Michael R. Burch

Your fingers end in talons—
the ones you trim to hide
the predator inside. 

Ten thousand creatures sacrificed; 
but really, what's the loss? 
Apply a splash of gloss. 

You picked the perfect color
to mirror nature's law: 
red, like tooth and claw.

I thought about titling...

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Green-back addict
Ambition is the keys to unlocking all the doors. Enthusiasm or courage can 
possibly put an end to world hunger. But let’s be honest, who need courage 
when you got that instant almighty dollar.Remember this: the “cowardly lion” 
don’t have to fight when he’s...

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The Brick Sayer

Tim is painting outside since it’s raining inside
Stroke upon cuddle one step at unfolding time
One inch brush gently on 10 squares of façade

The wannabee Buddhist thing when life is no race
Brightening enlightening mud bricks with caress
Whitewashing if that may still be said in...

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Time, chameleon illusion–
glosses over each hurtful slur
corralling each warm memory
to morph the past to one grey blur.

Emotional paralysis
senses dulled from desolation.
Suddenly comes along the buoy
in the middle of an ocean.

You found me or did I find you
against the odds we two should meet
neither looking, just...

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SOCIAL PEACOCK 

Playing the audience
The peacock struts 
How daintily and deftly
He swans around weaving intrigue
Flattering all
The kiss of a hand or an awaiting cheek
Done to perfection
Him who knows the value of each person to him
Knows how to please
The machinations of a society full of gossip
And...

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Ornament glosses the meaning
Metaphor displaces by dreaming
Emblems contain,then extend hereabout
So now,go figure it out....

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