Best Lowercase Poems

-Dear, Mr & Mrs Poet- 

Do you ever question where it comes from?
This poem's about you, sit down and get a load off 
Tranquilize your pen, take heed to the ecstatic applause 

The things in life we take for granting, in time get worse 
From...

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Vows Of Love That Time And Distance Can Not Deny

Beyond the ocean and high clifftop ledge 
  Across great expanse of water and skies
Two lovers far apart gave loving pledge
 vowing truest of loving never dies.
Each longing for fever of midnight dreams
  welcoming...

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Written: April 30, 2025, for a contest by Brian Strand

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blow out 
                a 
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quatrain

Clearly put - the star was up to no good.
Musicians have an innate sense of time. 
The guests, notwithstanding, all understood
their host - a conductor well-past his prime.

Novice performers, the host chose just three
for the opening event of the night.
His niece, as it happened, was...

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(a quick tap-tap-tapping on an imaginary typewriter, lowercase and scattered across the page)

dear e.e.

(i)
(a small(fan))
(me)

your words(they)
                        (dance)
     ...

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Voyage to the bottom of this... 
prevaricated forth write Declaration!

As most every girl and boy
taught back in the day,
learning base sic life lessons, 
when going to Zerns,
now permanently closed, 
but once upon a time one 
bustling, flourishing, thriving 
Farmers Market formerly 
a year-round farmers' market...

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Sea serpent at the castle drinking margaritas
 and I'm eating four leaf clover resting by the
 spirit of rock and amethyst lyrics other vegetation
 And fruits amongst themselves grapes being stumped 
between the toes Footloose as the green flash of the Sun
 the last balloon...

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thank you. thank you for finally leaving. it's been 7 years now that i have had to put up with your abusive and toxic habits. that i've had to deal with you adding to my emotional trauma every single day. that i've had to repress...

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why do i see you when i close my eyes? 
why do i see you when i sleep?
why do i dream of you?
why do i think of you when im tired?
and bored?
and lonely?
and when i'm happy?
and when i wake up?
and when i fall asleep?
why do...

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A definite bonehead moment

since revised when das scribe 
made laughing stock of himself 
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem 
December twenty eighth, 2022).

A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following 
honest to dog doe eyed, 
doofus dopey dilemma
allows, enables, and provides
figurative fodder from readers,
who ordinarily lavish
honorable voluntary praiseworthy...

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in a former place and time
i may have known you
but now you blow yourself away
you have become a lowercase 'l' so unrecognizable
i almost cry when you become incomprehensible and hallucinatory 
watching you now is like watching a repeat of some old television shows' later episodes
you...

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OPEN my recited writing

 OPEN FORM in lowercase without grammatical symbols ,uses spaces&breaks relying upon 'the one breath limitation' & as a  'happening' requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input &respond in a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood & thus is inherently variable.


A BRIAN STRAND FORM 3x5 (2012)...

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gestures
so
   delicate
a
  paradox
meticulous
   spectral
       tactile

an intimate
  transience
of
  ambiguity

a sequence
        segmented
in anonymous
         apertures
to
  a 
  transparent
...

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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE boy

i knew no wisdom
i knew no hate
i knew no lies

WHEN I GREW UP

i understood history
i understood love
i understood truth

NOW AS I AM DYING

i know a lot will change
i know the world will be busy
i know my appointments are unanswered

POST-LIVE REVELATION

How...

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Written: April 29, 2025, for Contest by Brian Strand

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diaphanous
        spirals
of 
     spectral 
    ...

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