Best Gnarl Poems

I penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.

Such insight. Such depth.

Mussolini...

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He walked into my office, business in hand,
In denim baggy overalls, a plaid shirt, white painters cap, 
and grandpa's old white leather orthopedic shoes.
If I...

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My life is very insular, I move from page to page
never straying far from words which prance upon the written stage.

like a sputtering engine my...

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tall among rich loosen soil
      scent slight quaver throughout spoiled
         sunshine fields,...

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Halloween 

Haunting monsters roam on an October Halloween spooky night

As munchkin stroll dress in their costumes that fright  

Large carved pumpkins laugh as inside...

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The Old Redbud Tree

There is a gnarled redbud left standing,
It blossomed pink year after year;
Four fused trunks grew from its base,
Its heart-shaped leaves said “dear.”

A...

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You are all cool kids in your youngest ever age,

You make each other day like you’re out of your cage.

When I talk, you always listen.

My...

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.. though the waves
      violently swirl
         and splash about,

.. though they fiercely
...

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abominate, abhor, abuse, admonish, adumbrate, afflict, advance,
agitate, agonize, alcohol, announce, approach, awaken, bait, bark,
bawl, bedamn, bedevil, berate, betoken, bluster, bode, bother, break,
brew, browbeat, bully, caution,...

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I see gulls gliding in the air.
I watch them landing down in pair.
All around me is the sea.

I see waves beating on the shore.
I hear...

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a red sunset lights the sky
as if over Dante's damned inferno
fierce fiery colours lashing out
across the horizon's jagged ridge

the fangs, they gnarl and menace
they growl...

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Then I walked inside the room 
Pondering myself what I would be
After years of struggle inside the classroom
Something I should be for the rest of...

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At the enthralled hour of All Hallow's Eve,
the night in frenzy clangour turns ghostly gray.

Billowing clouds slowly swirl in anger
round the formidable, full mysterious blood-red...

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The dawn is damp and grumpy grey 
strong fungal odours fill the air.
The ground is dark with death decay
beneath the beech that's now stripped bare.

Its...

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Such quaint conviction; a mess of uninformed prejudice.
In place to Hate on High, for British bird-eye views .
Inherently bias? Yes but still English.
The  Self...

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