Best Laureate Poems

"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal writ
medium calculating in the script

In that other time
there you hold me in your mind
spiritus mundi
 
consort I
with you
metaphoric in another...

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(On the state of American Poetry-  A Non-Poem Poem )




I'm Poet Laureate Of Main Street.
They voted.  I won.

' came down to me and the kid whose dog craps on everyone's lawns.

His poem was about a missing red crayon; mine: the stop-sign someone stole...

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HERE'S WISHING YOU A BUCKET OF THE BEST,
FOR HAVING REACHED THAT GOLDEN CREST,
I MYSELF CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THAT FAR BACK,
TO THE TIME WHEN I BROKE YOUTH'S BACK...

BUT WISHING YOU THE BEST FOR THE NEXT MANY YEARS,
YOU'LL ONLY GET UGLIER AND WISER SO BELAY YOUR FEARS.
MAY...

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Later A Poet Laureate

One to me you were so sincere
Then one day when you did disappear
My heart was broken and I became sad
And now I knew I just had been had.

Over and over my mind was tormented
After I discovered it was demented
To God started praying...

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1 fine day an erstwhile aspiring
dotting poet laureate

Overcome by inner torment and
habitual thought

This ditty came to wrote

When 1 finds the sun behind
sadly no longer way out in front

Ever so steadily warming one's back 
and dirty neck 

And so too the torrent of regret
that makes 1...

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Being pre-menopausal
last night
when I woke up
at three-twenty-four
and picked his book
off the floor
moaned and groaned
and gnashed my teeth
and bit my lip
and said, good grief
are we suppose
to read this junk

Have you ever
heard the word
brief or fun
or light or airy
And laid the book
back on the floor
and shut the...

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Newest thoughts brew in mind
Awesome write-ups to unwind
Novelist on the journey winsome
Dashing writing just wowsome
Highest rank of Poet Laureate
Ingenious bent in toto great
Nano skills and macro talent
Inspiring poetics with couplet
Magnificently carving a niche great
Ardent follower of rules straight
Gracious with the tone amazing
Enormous charm creates the...

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If words are thoughts made manifest, humanity then a poem long ago written
only the poet knowing the design
 Tragic or joyous, all things rest in his hands 
for once the word is constructed creation is realized ending fulfilled...

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It's true that I was in town
When the trumpet sound
And soldiers came down
Spilling like ants on the ground:
Heralding the royal feast!
The Gods have had their seats
To celebrate the poet from the east
Whose lyrical prowess beats
The best they've ever heard.
It is heavenly inspired:
The lines of this...

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From Africa to America spanning the world, quite possibly
My DNA struggled to survive to make me,
My existence is a testament to survival fitness,
My life is to nurture the future and bear witness, the past,
My name is the name to property they gave,
My heritage my lineage...

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An apple bitten,
Exiled from the garden of love,
Innocently wise....

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Through doors and windows,
Further and further inward,
Pushing limits until inward becomes outward,
And miracles unfold into reality....

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Floor to ceiling, wall to wall, world to world,
Bouncing from dimension to dimension,
Stranded in the space that is nowhere,
Unsure if this is wake or sleep,
Unsure which option is reality,
Rapid fire stillness,
The love child of sanity and insanity....

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In the music of life there will be sound and rest,
In every day there will be work and rest,
The contrast is important,
Finding the balance is the test....

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I loved you the best I could,
Your scars were so deep and so old,
I could not see them and you could remember,
I love you,
This time love was not enough....

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