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Best Jousts Poems

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Premium Member Green Anniversaries
This is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...

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Categories: jousts, cancer, hope, marriage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rice Field
Rice fields look the same except
for this one; this one who knew me
before i was born… and lying on her
fertile belly, she tosses the mist
of...

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Categories: jousts, beautiful, places,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member An Unwritten Fairytale
Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet...

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Categories: jousts, fantasy, fun, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
This Clerihew's For You
Don't cross swords with A Poet Destroyer,
pretentious jousts really do annoy her
Her weapon of choice: a crossbow or a saber
she'll Cupid your mind, turn your...

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Categories: jousts, appreciation, dedication, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member So Warmly Laid
O Lady, let us not tarry
Be thou the rose to spread nights’ glee.
Away from jousts, your pearls shalt shine,
Spring’s boughs hath me in love, entwined!

Knight’s...

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Categories: jousts, romance, me,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Rhapsody of Sweet Home
H azily, as nightfall glides ,I unlock the front-gate
O verwrought from drills of a riddled job, 
M y toes stumble on scented violet buds 
E...

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Categories: jousts, house, uplifting,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Anna
Anna is a charming Mom,
I met her at my gym.
A madam of sorts, quiet and calm,
Level headed, articulate, fit & trim.

Between sets we talk, of...

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Categories: jousts, appreciation, celebration, culture, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winning the Chase
She battles fatigue
by road climbing and painting
bolder palettes splash
on flamed wigs, on glossed canvas…
with punk, outracing mad cells

Monster tissues grow
yet lust for life soothes barbed...

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Categories: jousts, health,
Form: Tanka
Free Cee This Is About the First Bush Handing a F Cked Up War
A DEMONIC DEMOCRACY

“We interrupt regularly scheduled programming to present the President”……
And yet he just keeps talking
No verbiage can he espouse that I would ever care...

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Categories: jousts, angst,
Form: Free verse
The Signs
The signs 
Signs of the times echoing like thunder roaring
Like a lion pain and devastation cries blowing in the
Wind players taking a knee to close...

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Categories: jousts, care, conflict, religion, remembrance
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Shadow
My trace guilts and rears me,  
Thoroughbred from Spain, 
My trip jousts my banality, 
Until I cannot complain. 

Standing tall in the shadow, 
Which...

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Categories: jousts, appreciation, beauty, mentor, moon,
Form: Quatrain
Electioneering: Preliminary Trial, Postmortem Verdict
Gilded pols with verbal jousts disarm
With statistical ballasts constituents charm
On opponents deceptive feints, sound the alarm
Scout for votes in city, dale, and farm

Broker deals that...

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Categories: jousts, political
Form: Rhyme
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And Now … may Troubadour … Spin A Tale, So Precisely
Aye … May Bard,...

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Categories: jousts, adventure, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Four Cafes
A soft rain rippled across the apartment window distorting the rainbow of lights emanating from the Four Cafes.  That’s what the locals call them,...

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Categories: jousts, winter,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Gentlemen Who Joust
Gently probing her vulnerabilities
     seeking only the slightest advantage
   He parries her feints most delicately
    ...

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Categories: jousts, conflict, heart, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs