Best Literal Poems

Buried Alive

These walls....
they laugh at me but no one else hears
They steal the very breath of me
...but no one seems to notice
They blare a suffocating...

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(this is not a comment on gun rights in U.S.A. I am from Canada where we do not face the same challenges. rather i seek...

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Now where does this Highlander start
To thank those commenter's, present and past
So many read and absorbed
Their kindness to me always lasts

Dr.Ram and Carol Brown
My African...

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Poetry Soup and America, 2019

A country rich in schools and diversity.
Many here have esteemed college degrees,
Yet, why do Americans communicate by smileys?
Worse, we cannot hold a...

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A solitary sail of contrasting 
     White in a salty sea of blue.
From its own land, to disconnect,
   ...

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Panicked people pour into the streets pushing past each other; they’re powerless
Against the awful atrocity unleashed by unknown armed assailants.
Normalcy has fled; so many in...

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"This New Eden"

This eden 
rolls gently over me
like Sunlight beams
the car lights shine 
luminosity along 
the road, the dark night
dims eventually and 
morning arrives
This eden...

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Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak

The above...

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Both of us were damaged yet, we tried
literal broken lines.
He was right winged and I was left winged,
I hid under his, we lifted with mine.

Both...

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This communication marvel
Of modern times
At our finger tips
Crude or refined
 
Attachments plenty
In various forms
Some polite
Other's, against the norm
 
What takes people to write
In mean spirited...

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Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in...

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Are you who you say you are
Or is it just a ruse
Who are our leaders
In literal abuse?
 
In a competitive world
As we share our work
Do...

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Headlines are all about the Sussexes and royal Palace news
I hurry past them because I don't care about their issues
Seems to be about betrayal, and...

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Don't corner the writer – put
him in a cage and poke; you
like Shakespeare...then read
Shakespeare! And let the writer
be his own rhyming or ill rhymed-bloke. 
To...

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Imagine that there is something beyond imagination

an oxymoron of course but a real task nevertheless

There may be no God not even spirituality suffices

but the whole...

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