Best Lengthwise Poems

I was attending a birthday party, once when summer was young.
We played games on the back lawn, beneath the huge orange sun.

Colorful birds were tweeting, almost the way that people do,
To say good morning sunshine, what is new, and I do love you!

The guest of...

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A banana split can be a work of art.
With the fruit cut lengthwise in half is where we start.
Three scoops of our favorite ice cream go on top.
Whatever flavor, use the cream of the crop.
On each scoop go toppings of pineapple, chocolate, and strawberry.
Above that...

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The green village, the colored city, the ever familiar locality
Each path, tree, house, turn, each native I have left behind
But creepers, hedges have entangled with my leg and hand
The green crops fields, green hills, fruit trees, call me back
Vast playground, lake of fishes, moonlit night...

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Mona Lisa is
Looking directly with fizz
Loving life more than slaying 

Her bent left arm looks
Curving as rushed water goes
Few miles into Sinai cove

Her left side’s dark cheek
A map of bliss’ Middle East
Tsunami comes to seek rear

Big N is a road
Jordan River lifts thug load
The Dead...

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He presses up against the open door
  where the sun glows and warms the carpet.
Such simple need he has
  that give him comfort and joy as his eyes close
  soaking in the warm sun's rays.
His shiny soft black fur absorbs the light
...

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Jails we weave in hues of red rust
All our yarns are strong and just 
Croons of threads sing on a
Quilt, "A song of trust!"
Urged the wefts,'we
Are like Silk,
Roped for
dust!


8th October 2015

Jacquard: a fabric made on a loom fitted with a jacquard, with an intricate variegated...

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Only one of the haiku poems below is serious. The others are frivolous. Can you spot the serious poem?

Longitudinal
lines run lengthwise, criss-crossing
lines of latitude.

A "friend of the court,"
or "amicus curiae,"
is no friend of mine!

For perfect haiku,
you must check your syllable
count religiously.

You can run, but you
cannot...

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Under a thatch of welded grasses
Beneath the sentry trees and singing birds
A seven decade muse sits on a naked earth
Drunk by the tunes of choir birds
Creativity invades her weary veins
As she strokes the grassy strips
Expertise emits from her ridged visage
Her keen eyes chant the incantation...

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There was a little bird once dwelt in my heart, he built a nest 
on the tree branch hanging by the window of my heart 
with the webbings spun from sunlight in lengthwise 
and the webbings spun from moonbeam in breadthwise.

The only wish of the...

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*Image of Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco by Pixabay.

"San Francisco, Open Your Golden Gate"

In my youthful primes some numerous years ago,
while Haight-Ashbury flickers in San Francisco,

ex-law enforcers, lawyers, demagogues all,
met in the solemn grand chambers of City Hall,
to pass a bill addressing our Golden Gate...

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Word-Worker

Thee procurement and collection
Of this smattering of letters
No matter your predilection
For future employment of type setters
To criss and cross all the tees and eyes
Paying close attention to the prose
Transcribing thine inner reflections width and lengthwise
In all subsequent rows
By paying out the aforementioned
It may be held...

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Bastardizations of a good night;
Sullen moonlight pours recklessly through blinds,
Sickened stomach turns,
Eyes rill and flutter egg-white visions.

Shuffle:
I am a joint rolled from Bible paper,
A blood blister in a hemopheliacs mouth. 
Deal:
You are an inkstain of poetical nonsense,
A burst pipe running lengthwise through brain matter:

The entire...

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Big cheer
Truck’s here!

My prize:
Zip ties!

Breadthwise,
Lengthwise,
Right size:
Deep sighs.

Like sands:
Thousands

Advise,
Good buys

No lies,
Blue skies!

UV?
We’ll see

Tie things
sans strings

Real tough
Hand cuff

Threat bind;
Kids mind

Not true,
Kid you!

Sides clutch,
LOL much!

I say,
Good day!...

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lovely lithe lively lemurs
languishing lovingly lengthwise
laboriously lightening our loads
laughing in lemur-like linguistics

lovely lacksidasical loving lemurs
letting loose leeches live
living lemur-like lightness
lollygagging in lemur-like ways...

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I.
At Bredinsburg Road Cemetery 
the fence pillars 
stand arched 
on each side 
where the empty space of 
shoulder bone meets shoulder bone.

II.
I tread lightly
here,
tombstones
white chipped shale
scattered and tilted askew
flat like deli plates  
tossed wilily nigh 
lengthwise into the ground.

III.
Some, 
bear children’s names 
angel’s feathers...

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