Best Looked For(A) Poems
Cuckoo
...Far away in a
land torn with war,
she looked for a home.
She was not as pretty as
doves adorning lush gardens,
as exuberant as ducks t......
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Categories:
looked for(a), bird, hope, love,
Form:
Shape
God Sees the Courageous At Work
...Strangers are attacking me;
ruthless men seek my life—
men without regard for God. Selah
Psalm 54:3
GOD SEES THE COURAGEOUS AT WORK
Wild-eyed disregard for God —
The moc......
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Categories:
looked for(a), abortion, christian, dark, murder,
Form:
Free verse
Maybe It's Time
...Maybe it's time we said a prayer
Maybe it's time we started to care
Maybe it's time we started looking for the truth.
Maybe it's time we began to listen
Maybe it's time we completed our mission......
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Categories:
looked for(a), confusion, life, time, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
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Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour......
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Categories:
looked for(a), allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Devil's Island
...I'll tell you a tale
of our own Devil's Island
and the demonic crash
of the waves in the swell.
The smell and the taste
of the ball breaking weather;
the ghosts that deliver
poor sailors to H......
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Categories:
looked for(a), adventureold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
My Only Dream
...My only dream
~
I took this dream
that I found at the border
Painted it black,
much more easy to hide
Went to a shadow,
just sitting there waiting
Wished it farewell
and then......
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Categories:
looked for(a), good night,
Form:
Rhyme
Anticpating the Thrill of the Holidays
...Nippy air bites the skin, sunlight trails off in a sky so morose;
bare trees contemplate the yellow grass below mourning their lost splendor;
be that messenger of the Season's Greetings and avoid......
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Categories:
looked for(a), history, holiday, inspirational, love,
Form:
Kyrielle
Our Peace
...I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling duel with death and oblivion.
I ......
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Categories:
looked for(a), care, devotion, i love
Form:
Free verse
After the Party, I Woke up on a Tropical Island
...
It being a holiday, with friends, I went to chill out
In a gregarious company, partying was sheer fun
After a heavy booze, my first-time experience,
I fell flat, plunging into deep ......
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Categories:
looked for(a), appreciation, confusion, dream, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Fate
...I climb that mountain every day
I have looked for a path or an easier way
My mind plays tricks but my heart it knows
To climb any other way would cause me to slow
Life is not fair, it is often ......
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Categories:
looked for(a), fate,
Form:
Rhyme
An Ode To Benjamin Franklin
...I wished to improve on my character so,
I looked for a model to go by.
I studied the habits of men great and tall,
For one who seemed perfect in my eyes.
Men of fine profile and manly physique,......
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Categories:
looked for(a), history,
Form:
Quatrain
Age Discrimination Is Rampant
...Age Discrimination is Rampant
By Elton Camp
Younger folks don’t think about such stuff
You will if you manage to live long enough
I didn’t experience it until after I retired
And looked fo......
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Categories:
looked for(a), angst, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
A Man and His Car
...Once upon a time
In a land not so far
Lived a lead footed man
Alone with his car.
He longed to go fast
Speed flawlessly down the track
So he looked for a car
A Mustang in fact.
It was lov......
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Categories:
looked for(a), car, love, race,
Form:
Rhyme
An Ode To Benjamin Franklin
...I wished to improve on my character so,
I looked for a model to go by.
I studied the habits of men great and tall,
For one who seemed perfect in my eyes.
Men of fine profile and manly physique,
Were......
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Categories:
looked for(a), history, inspirational, men,
Form:
Quatrain
Dragon Called "delerium Tremens"
...Collapsing like someone (Starving and Desperate), the (Old Man in Blue) batik had been
(Washing Muddy Walls) on his Indonesian hut on stilts when he toppled over. He was (Cut
Down) and left unbal......
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Categories:
looked for(a), on writing and words
Form:
Narrative