Best Guttered Poems
VincentJuly 29, 1890
Colored daubs and swatches
crave artist’s practiced hand.
Justice, nearly blind, yet watches—
unwrought art upon a stand.
Regard the brushes in a row—
the palettes and the sponges.
Genius maimed by status quo,
vain a hope that fate expunges.
Guttered myriad lifelong dreams—
in desperate ruination.
Fading now the piteous screams
of self-inflicted...
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Categories:
guttered, betrayal, corruption, evil, vanity,
Form:
Quatrain
Among the Souls of Empty HeartsAmong the souls of empty hearts
O distant bells of steeples chime
in echoed hymns of saddened weep
Comes again the midnight hour,
down dampened cobblestone to creep
Along the darkened streets they roam
of alleyways and torches fed.
To reap the fortunes of desire,
black shadows, piercing eyes of red
...
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Categories:
guttered, fear, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Brahms and LisztHappy. Genial. Merry. Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy. Tiddly. Brahms and Liszt
Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered, blathered, leathered, plastered,
Sozzled, sloshed, scuttered
Hammered, battered, caned, mangled
Spannered, mullered. Half-cut, lashed
Twisted, warped, slammed, wasted
Wrecked, ruined. Munted, trashed
Liquified,...
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Categories:
guttered, drink,
Form:
List
Magpie MurderSix magpies brought their mourning squawk,
soon joined by several others,
disturbing all their neighbour's talk
and waking sleepy lovers.
Some hopped and did their swaggered strut
between a felted flat roof top
and a guttered water but.
Some preferred a higher perch
and troubled nearby taller tops...
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Categories:
guttered, bereavement, bird, death, death
Form:
Rhyme
FailureFAILURE.
Isolated tentative in rosy tower
Sublime detached observer of success
Making its own life and time
Swallowing in one long yawn all the glories
Keen scented existence and sanctified its rewards
Cut off from the masters & futilifying the slaves
Giving a disdain look to posterity and its pards
Ignoring punctuality with...
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Categories:
guttered, allegory, philosophy, poets,
Form:
Verse
A Sonnet For Bloody But Unbowed HeadsA Sonnet For Bloody But Unbowed Heads
The hands of my children’s raised arms
Have become like released skeets;
Their ebony hued bodies, a circled bull’s eye.
Their blood flows down the guttered streets---
Clotting here and there like a red stained dye;
As justice stands by balancing her scheming charms.
Liberty...
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Categories:
guttered, america, analogy, betrayal, black
Form:
Sonnet
A Zambezi SagaThe brook thrums as it vaults over the piled rocks
Rolling on deep into the Zambezi valley
Twisting, flirting with the rigdes that compliment the escarpment beyond
And the indigenous lass strolled to the rivulet a rose
A dragon rose burgeoning before the morning glory of...
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Categories:
guttered, africa,
Form:
Narrative
Summoning Lightover occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be
in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a light
for a half burnt cigarette
then money for food
nerve knotted living squeezed between soiled fingers
...
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Categories:
guttered, care, city, light, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Gazing At Cindered SkiesTorturous curves bending vision,
twisting to hide beyond today
what the prism of the future
holds captive down the whispered way.
Lost to us Love's fledgling glory,
gazing too long at cindered skies
till the velvet flame of passion
just guttered out in harsh good-byes.
Frail moths chasing bright illusions,
our palpitant attempts denied....
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Categories:
guttered, first love, goodbye, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Retreat (Stalingrad 42/43)Snow fell upon the marble eyes of the dead,
And the magpies pecked the buttons on the coats,
Drawn by the gleam of dulling brass attract,
As the ravens sought the softness of the throats.
Trees in naked staggers scratched the skies,
And the guns in the distance snapped like...
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Categories:
guttered, death, history, life, nature,
Form:
Verse
Drive ByDRIVE BY…
In chilled onyx morning
Silicon tears flowed
Down the plowed valleys
Of ebony skin.
Silicon tears
Leaking from sunken craters:
Red orbs bleeding residues of pain.
In the cold guttered streets
A father’s son lays dead:
A lifeless body riveted with lead.
Another father must now defend
The cardinal sin
Of a living son
Who fired...
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Categories:
guttered, anxiety, bereavement, children, grief,
Form:
Prose Poetry
UntitledLove.. one of the four letter words that is strong
But yet is guttered out of your mouth
And captured by a faded kiss that you gave me
The eyes that I once believed was innocent
Became the wicked criminal I never thought you'd be...
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Categories:
guttered, lost love,
Form:
Chasedchased such a long time
I was behind myself
cobbled roads with water
streaming down the guttered edges
pouring into the end of a river
I chased myself there
alone
nothing this end of town
I forgot why I'd been running
a perfect figure
well colored and clad
walked toward me,
"You needn't...
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Categories:
guttered, heart, inspiration, time, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
In Which We BurnTime is the fire in which we burn,
ripples of lava on inner landscapes,
eddies and swirls which twist
and turn.
Kerosene progress burns me now,
I feel
the pain of sweet conflagration
dead cold and real.
Hypnotic the effect, I embrace
it’s dissolution,
dissembling before a mind’s eye mirror crack’d,
denied absolution.
Reminiscing on the...
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Categories:
guttered, lost love, love, sad,
Form:
Verse
The CandleThe candle guttered in the draft,
She paused in her thoughts.
Life had been good today,
She had eaten a little.
Gazing out to gather her thoughts,
Children cowered in the filthy lanes.
They had not eaten in a long time.
They scrambled out to the laden cart,
Hoping something would fall, it...
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Categories:
guttered, conflict, world war i,
Form:
Free verse