Best Laddered Poems

Life On The Inside

As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the...

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Is there anyone who can explain to me
why someone in the Soup community
would gripe about those on the lists,
ranting on with their pen in clenched...

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I walked by the old cafe on Rue De Sienne and heard an angel playing harp 
a cherub an ethereal mome bewitching me and playing...

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bullying, death, freedom, games, men, war nature,

Nature Kills for Survival Only! ©

Great animal and man species hunt to kill
They are mighty 'Kingpins' in want for...

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Scented Leaves

Flowery fragrance sorts divisive airflow and cooperates amidst plethoric aubergines that bathe breathlessly, brushing raised exemplars of strewn unfurled chartreuse fronds, lain in the...

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In London
A young woman
walks the streets
Laddered tights
Swollen feet.
Sells her body
So her kids can eat.
Is  She the one to Blame?

In Gambia
A man so poor
Addicts ...

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The sands of the tumultuous rain drops,
Graced my eyes to the brim with tears, 
Splotched memories behind my eye lids,
Like a finger print you stuck...

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Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures...

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rough wooden background
light behind your laddered frame
woven bullrushes your seat
unbroken staunch stiff
what spinsters have you held tall
with locked knees and fallen heads

*5/7/7/5/7/7 one of two...

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I..................
Caught...............
My wife cheating...................
It had crossed my mind, should I give her a beating?

Instead, I sat on the edge of the bed,
Silence choked the room as...

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Life On The Inside

As the trees whisper words of wisdom,
The wolf lies below and howls,
To the Raven high in branches above,
Their spirits entwined beyond the...

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What place is this that gives me peace
Amidst the haunting of the world's disease
Where on a stony pillow I find release
Guilty shadows flee, and I...

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Once again to many
Like worn out knickers
Or laddered old tights
Sorry I can not explain
But it is a feeling I know all to well
Bored to death...

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A touching version of "Winter Wonderland"  by Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith.

Fire bells ring, We’re awake and listening
Rush to the trucks
All washed and...

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"If we agree in love,
then there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not,
no agreement can do us any good."
Hosea...

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