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 visible 

raven caws from the highest tree
bringing news of the territory 
beneath laddered branches green
wolf listens patiently, ready

Across the meadows'...

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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 fist?

How important can the lists possibly be
to set someone's nerves off so repeatedly.
Why dwell upon them with such negativity,
screeching and...

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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 softly with my heart 
she wore a halo made of gold, a soul that laddered up beyond the tarp ...

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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 more gamely bites
Mastered forces in ungodly ‘uproar’ hunt down for food for its very survival against becoming extinct
Animals born to...

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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 wake of humble pattered feet enthralled in its tangy betrothed crisp path,

Ingratiating themselves against engaging tickles of countless laddered leaves...

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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  his children
To Heroine
To keep their bellies
Full within.
He works all day and night
How are they meant to live.
When all he earns
Is...

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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 invoking poetry 
flowing soulfully 
provoking gospel primal anthems

Of StraightWhite Man v AnthroOther

Or StraightWhite ManBody v EgoCentric AlienSelf

Or StraightWhite ManSpirit v...

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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 on my mind, 

I found love in the poison even though it wasn’t truths, 
Unbeknownst to the impending tragedy,
I pressed...

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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 possible structures...

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The day was long, her eyelashes longer 
batting them, only drove my lust stronger 
I was light on my feet, she’d light fingers
I traversed hot coals, yet coldness lingers 
How cruel this night, corrupt and broken 
Rolex watch gone, one silk hose her token 
(I...

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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 visible 

raven caws from the highest tree
bringing news of the territory 
beneath laddered branches green
wolf listens patiently, ready

Across the meadows'...

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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 nothing was said.

I stared at her, through the cheating, beauty I see,
She never dolled herself up like this for me.

She...

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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 am at ease
What place is this that between a vision
And a dream, show me heaven still is real
And angels in...

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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 Ballou

If we,
in good faith communion, 
agree
that love is green healthier
and wealthier than hate
and mutual ignorance,
then there is no red climate...

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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 glistening
We start out the bay
Tell Dispatch, “We are on the way.”
Its a Firefighter's Wonderland.

Dispatch advises, “Inside there is smoke.”
We bunker...

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