Best Manuel Poems
Follow the Bouncing Ball
...She dresses the land down
in a virginal bridal gown
a masterfully cut and sewn chenille
shines brightly with a fine crystal appeal
Her assistants work quite diligently
to add special touches......
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Categories:
manuel, cheer up, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Fickle-Foolish-Footles - Man's Best Friend
...Overweight Terrier:
Porky
Yorkie
Un-cool Terrier:
Dorky
Yorkie
Spaniel dog breeder:
Cocker
Stocker
Parrot who mimics a Spaniel's bark:
Cocker
Mocker
Book on how ......
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Categories:
manuel, animal, dog, funny,
Form:
Footle
America, Oh America
...AMERICA, OH AMERICA
America, oh America, the mother of Exiles,
Mighty woman with a torch,
Towers high as a top notch
Whose flame is the imprisoned fire
With conquering limbs empire,
Astrife f......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, america, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Coronality Part 1
...CORONALITY (1)
Polyneuropathy of a poisonous dark child,
Weapon of mass destruction,
Born to the family called Earth,
Name Corona, last name Virus,
Nickname Covid, aged nineteen (19),
Nationa......
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Categories:
manuel, death, earth, grief, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Rest In Pieces
...BUTCHER PETE
In the vault below lies the mince, of butcher Pete
Got dragged into a meat processor by the soles of his feet.
RADIOACTIVE SCUM
The Russian soldiers......
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Categories:
manuel, death, humor,
Form:
Epitaph
Why Men Are Called Groom and Women Bride
...WHY MEN ARE CALLED GROOM AND WOMEN BRIDE
Hullabaloo and cacophony etched in your Union,
Soliloquies to break up with your said-protagonist of a spouse,
You forgot your beautiful euphony, word fu......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, for her,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Saudade
..."Saudade is a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy." ~ Manuel de Melo
I sit in our room and think of you,
ponder your framed, steady gaze,
touch the circle on the wall
where you placed you......
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Categories:
manuel, dedication, destiny, devotion, dream,
Form:
Free verse
King of the Nocturnal
...Never a foe, life made you so.
Gazed at me from head to toe
as darkness sees light through the Owl.
Your nature is a rhetorical "how".
I sort for you during day time.
A visit, I hope isn't a col......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, bird, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom Was Found
...WISDOM WAS FOUND
The day moves me into this ultimate search
Of the principality that Lords over life
And rules over Kings, nobles, aged and Princes
As my desire yearns for that which is profita......
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Categories:
manuel, 2nd grade, bible, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
BEAUTY IN REJECTION
...BEAUTY IN REJECTION
In the silence of rejection's sting,
A tale of beauty begins to sing.
For in the depths of sorrow's ocean,
Lies a gem of strength and pure emotion.4
In rejection's tende......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Mates
...SOUL MATES
From across the room
Her brightness evacuates my gloom,
As she looked at me
Slow mo' in retro is all I see.
Oh! The room stood still,
Ample time to Ravel in this thrill
As I close......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Blackness
...BLACKNESS
No racism, we are all made of black
Like a bacon-eating balaclava-wearing bachelor Jack,
And even if you're white or Caucasian,
Can't run from black hair like typical Asian
Cos of crea......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, africa, black
Form:
Rhyme
Love Hardened
...LOVE HARDENED
I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that looks,
Outbrave the heart most daring of crooks,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Mock lions when they roar for a prey that s......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, love, poetry,
Form:
ABC
The Most-Wanted Height and Most-Needed Heart
...THE MOST-WANTED HEIGHT & MOST-NEEDED HEART
Do women miss out on a good man
because of height & forget God's plan?
Most definitely yes, of course,
and shamelessly so without remorse.
I feel ......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
My Muse
...MY MUSE ©
Oath with my indelible INK
INK flows like BLOOD
BLOOD runs through my VEINS
VEINS keeps me alive/ANIMATE
ANIMATE to write till all ink dries UP
UP until all the lexis are GONE
GONE......
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Categories:
manuel, 1st grade, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rondeau