Best Lapels Poems

Carrying with me a
halfhearted smile for the
braver men than I.
The men holding tightly
to past perceptions,
live or die.
Suppose I whispered to 'em
what I've heard through
the metaphorical...

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Color Coquelicot
 

Blazing Coquelicot
paints famed Flanders Field Poppies
on battle-scarred land.
Honored too on coat lapels...
war symbol of remembrance.


Sandra M. Haight


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I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of...

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With the dawning of every new day
Comes the chance for my mood to change
It's really no secret how this I do
As I don the apparel...

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Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages...

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"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the...

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White Cliffs of Dover now sponsored in daydreams
Reading each billboard that rusts on the sky
Checking a map though it’s for the wrong city
She sends a...

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Its like being nicked
or narked,

Being triggered to spark! 

Being filtered out of your mixes that pair well with high speed art,

if visions of passion release...

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THESE BUTTERFLY KISSES
 
I cannot tell what happened
But I heard somebody telling me:
 
“They vanished in thin air”

“My butterfly kisses are broken wings”
 
“I know no butterfly kisses”

Yes!...

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With paper blooms of vibrant red,
recalling battles and their dead.
A moment’s silence, deep in thought
of young lives taken as they fought;
of blood and innocence still...

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Important to note this the ACT of dawning in Spanish (know of no English equivalent)


Cape Hatteras


Joe the Moustache
   wiping the suds
& plays a...

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Wounds Into Scars
                 by Odin Roark

It takes not a...

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Laying in the morning twilight, yawning, my head nods down and I jerk it up again,
The barbed wire faintly twitches, someone has touched it, will...

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A Better Bridge, Or Wall



I can read the future like a book
The pages flip before I’m wise
It’s over before a second look
The ending came as...

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