Best Indirect Poems

Because my brilliant hooks read indirect,
But bait directly one illiterate,
They likely slip stripped fish-net intellect,
Thus, now, I’ll lure completely different:
Just like the redwood trees that...

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My Boys
how am I going to tell you 
    what I am thinking 
  unless I use words
   ...

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Like anything
There are two edges to this sword
The ragged one has, for now, cut too deeply
The reality of its cleaving
And the intent of the hand...

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I like my God much better than the one
who made his home up in the stratosphere
and favored us with visits now and then,
harrumphing down below...

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She was strength and magic
Timeless and tragic
She was diamonds and dust
  Just when you had her attention you lost her trust.
 Refined and dignified
...

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Dulcet electrical-guitars playing as I draw graffiti on the sky-line.

There’s more to me than converse shoes and
These lonely brown eyes. 

This force within me is,
Shaking-
Aching.
I...

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Flirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear 
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is...

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In my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses 
incarnated all the green organic dreams 
of the food righteousness brigade,

Eternal...

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I see my gleaming reflection in your smile
Your eyes tell a story of a man in search
In search for what is real
In search of trust,...

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Sure are the benefits of forgiveness, we all know—
All major belief systems say so.
But in actual life it doesn’t seem to happen.  
Instances of...

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Chicken Little ( by Myself and Shukura Porter)

A crackhead stands out on the corner holding a torn Bible...claiming he has found religion...still very much in...

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Friends, a lifeboat can pose a dilemma to all!
Let’s imagine like Noah that you’ve built an arc
But then night comes and lightning bolts shatter the...

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Yoga, a Sanskrit word, an abstract noun meaning oneness
It points to the meeting of soul and the Absolute or Godhood
To attain this oneness one has...

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Methinks I inadvertently got entangled
without deliberate intent, sans whirled
wide web, albeit courtesy of yours truly,
who (flattered upon at least one maybe
more'n one Prose.com subscriber click-

king...

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Although the Christmas tale rings true, 
For every child who feels slighted and destroyed, 
By religious insult, pretentious token or symbolic kiss, 
He shouldn’t only...

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