Best Indicates Poems

it's not the same anymore
this is a haunted place
all the living
happy and smiling
writing a pretty line
feeling sublime
but....it's a ghostland to me
drab
drear
desolate

poets I used to know
those on fire
dripping passion
after a fashion
laughter resounding
keys getting a pounding
poetry driven
friendships? A given
throbbing...alive

Now? Memories survive
for slowly they perished
not being cherished
tired and...

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You, my friend, 
are not a king or a prince 
neither are you a nobleman  
of 
a higher or lower rank, 
you are just another poor man like me:
a citizen of perpetual want
 
yet

you carry within your heart a kingdom, 
a kingdom, you very...

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"Mi primo" means my cousin in Spanish.
He calls me his "primita"- little cousin.
This is the story of how mi primo
Taught me about the meaning of bread;
Of the meaning of tortillas...
He and I are exchanging languages 
Over Dairy Queen chicken strips;
I repeat the words he teaches...

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The music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying the music and lyrics. 

Another bar unceremoniously has ‘asked’ him to leave
His limits he knows - to stupefy with liquor...

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Poetry,they will dissect you
ignoring poet's bleeding heart,
a judgement today for you too,
poetry, they will dissect you!
So many knives  to cut you through
a bleeding heart will fall apart.
Poetry they will dissect you
ignoring poet's bleeding heart!



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Contest-TRIOLET

Form-TRIOLET :  A French verse form. Its rhyme scheme is...

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Having loved ones is an incredibly comforting feeling, but when you enter the vast 
landscape of the mind and see only depression and despair,  you become aware 
that you are alone in your misery.  Clinging to the last threads of sanity It feels...

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The mighty roar of the King of the
Bush at the crack of dawn,
Its majestic sound, being the first
Thing you hear, as you yawn,
And the laugh of the sly hunch backed
Hyena, as it creeps, slouched
Close to the fence,
Behind it many other savage animals
In a veld so...

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edgy ink*lings
starlight *singers
un-*ring the moon

herald of *dark
disem*bark coal
breed *sparks gem stones...

cover our *wounds 
with sleep *sound's tick
mon*soon midnights

Poet: Debbie Guzzi
Contest: Than-Bauk a Twilight
*indicates the word or syllable
of the word which rhymes
[4th syll.,3th syll.,2nd syll.]...

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If you had a choice
Which would you choose
Red or yellow
Or purple or blue

Your choice indicates
Happy or sad
Do you wake up each day
Feeling good or bad

Do as I do
When I first open my eyes
Say to myself
Today is a prize

The smell of the dew
On the new mown...

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Creatures Of The Flame


Fierce friend or foe...earth element of fire;
In many ways advanced our humankind.
Relentless when unchecked, a beast so dire,
Engulfs and smothers, leaving ash behind.

Fire shaped the path for humans to progress:
provided them with warmth and light at night;
by chance, found cooking meat gave...

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*holorime/ holorhyme (a French adjective), means "whole rhyme" and indicates 
homophonous verses; that is, two lines made up of different words that sound the 
same. source: about.com

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*fireflies in lusty glow, darting in neon-colored eyewear
tempting icy nights: oh come for me, your frilled garments i’ll wear!*




all...

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YES !


Written in my palms
Within the plasma tempest of my cellular flow
Courses in the pulmonary oxygen
The direction linear fate
Souls writing indicates
Always through pass of time
Reverberates
My breathing in
Links my hands
Physical over mental
Pours consistent
Suffused empire shudders
Tangible still earthquakes
On a single point
Of longing

Yearning 
It filters me
Through the hours
Designs...

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Jesus did teach us to turn the other cheek,
But never suggested we ought to be weak
In those instances of obvious wrongdoing
He sent the moneychangers gelt strewing,
And he called out the miserable hypocrite
In the strongest of language, as he saw fit.

Keeping the peace is good, I...

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Distill emotion
to one cliché “I love you”
call it poetry

Wrap all your feelings
in colorful box, ribbons,
call it greatest gift

Inflated ego
sworn superiority
call it all I need

I hear no trace of
regret in the voice speaking
of indiscretions

I see no sign of
truth in the dark eyes that claim
to love me...

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"If having a sense of humor is considered crazy, 
tell me I'm zany before you walk out my door."             
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