Best Maddens Poems

That cologne was the aroma of her love, I was sure,
Spirit within her crystal-like innocence finely pure;
Innateness born in her at very time of conception,
Divine decorum that pervaded her each perception...!

Herbal, spicy, floral perfume of her perfect psyche,
Within flutter fancies flawlessly like flowery niche;
Cherubim and...

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You want to know what annoyeth me? Let me count the ways!
I could weave a veritable tapestry of all my aggravations, mostly in 
light and deep crimson hues which signify the violence in my Heart.
Easily I could write a novel that reads like a laundry...

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Festered lament maddens me
Why must the despair of my heart’s desire
Truly enlighten me? 
I rested among the sick and lame
And found myself no different from the rest
For a troubled mind holds endless poverty
Penniless regret marks as a sickness no doctor can prescribe
For the bottles of...

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Expectation's a sure path to pain  
First we cover our gaps with dreams
And let them dreams grow within
Tall, thick and feasible
Turning to purpose
Then obsession
That thwarted
Maddens,
Hurts....

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You promised to come back soon
Instead I received your letter of love
You had gone away to hunt for a boon 
I am dying to be with you, by Jove. 

The message from far away that you sent
Nevertheless fills me with an anticipation
It excites and spreads...

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Villanelle: Kill not Mad Poets the Soul-Blood of Mankind
                  for Emmanuel MACRON

Kill not mad poets the soul-blood of mankind
   Better kill gods teacher-preachers saviours
Their words stretch...

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This house doesn't need ghosts to scare anyone 
The walls take sanity for fun 
They'll hex you with whispers in tongue 
Arrive with confidence, you'll leave with none 
The longer you stay, the further undone 
The air stifles, it thickens and numbs 
It weighs down...

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The Missing Season
27/07/2020 

Whiffs of summery air grow startlingly unfresh
Dying like a withering dream yet almost deathless
Ruffled by an impasse of a senescent, uncrossable viaduct 
that goes beyond my knowingness, beyond my conception
Of an unknown poison instilled merely into my air 
Blossomless springs, rainless winters...

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And then ..
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

And then..
The ribbon and the cuff link
Escort the gent..
That annoy
Man about a woman
On the long wait
Of her dress up
But then..
The afterward will
Be splendid
When the deal is done
The beauty of her
Smart on your arm.

Before then ..
She vexes and maddens
And makes the blood boil
Too...

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Is it sanity or bravery that I come to you like this?
Wanting, no needing something to live for
Something to see
On the long marched across the sea of grass I wonder
What maddens possessed me?
What in sanity led me to this place?
Out here looking for friend
What have...

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just as moon melts slow
sharp pin pricks in each taste bud
so soft you opt glide

first you eclipse top
lips on beats at closed eye lids
scent maddens nostrils

it's now velvet shift
meandering footsy falls
pink heat from gold sparks

moon now in mid sky
half lost in your blue onslaught
it's cannabis...

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This heart broken and shattered
With palpitations at bay.
Shan't ride the storm before the morn
      For I can't stand the pain.

This nausea, this sickness, the pitiless aches
          My lingering illness.
Torments my mind...

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shipwrecked delirious at 89 bunker street
there lives my cloudberry doll
singing the songs of the blue hour

there lives my chantress with wax wings
my dormant (tor)mentor of keyhole view
reanimér les mémoires d'automne
in cryptic silence of a ramshackle silo

too late! I noticed the pallor of peonies
now here come...

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I.

The echoing din of hammered steel
Anviled and tempered strong,
Resounds in your head like a blacksmith’s song—
Clanging till you feel
The heat of the weapons shop.

II.

Old Thor and apprentices, forging new
Weapons for gods to wield:
The clatter of crafted blade and shield
Deafens and maddens you—
Your brain is their...

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It scorches; it sears
It burns in the veins
It maddens; it deranges
It gives exquisite pains
 
It entices; it provokes
It lures to its lair
It boils; it combusts
It lays the heart bare
 
It consumes; it exhumes
The forbidden dreams
It demands; it commands
That you follow its schemes
 
It explodes; it...

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