Best Mercurial Poems

'Tis said that Mercury is in retrograde.
Is it just an astrophysical charade —
An illusory cosmic joke being played?
Is the wee beggar's energy bill unpaid?...

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Autumn beams burnish
Gilded leaves adorn canvas
Cooling waves tarnish...

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orange pinwheel twirls
circus of color protrudes
burnished tent hovers...

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Those fervent bonds of educated altruism

Attack a hard wrought seedy worldview

Payers and givers in all stripes of sedition

Plunge ahead in the dark mysterium of societal agency

Where flooded stations of trashy neglect

Barter like intestines for the choice to move about

Juxtaposed against hidden nature with stable roots

The...

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The universe is a mercurial cloud.
Against its overbearing chaos,
I have only my words.
They are never solutions,
Only questions.
Always selective in their attention.
Always filters screening out 
The subatomic assault.
I have only my words. 
I scroll through cable channels.
I download all the apps.
How do I ponder a musical...

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mercurial me
Gemini 
painter
cartoonist 
poet
from the mid west USA
Iowan
a rapidly transplanted nomad
My husband moved me thirty-seven times
I attended eighteen colleges before I received a B.A.
masters degree achieved in 1996
I have now attended thirty-seven colleges
Masters plus ninety
I will never be able to get enough school
professional student
school counselor
wife
mother
mother-in-law
grandmother...

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A treatise on regenerating life
Old Man Winter's residual cultivated by Spring's mid-wife
Into fertile cavity seed with precision did knife
In earth's dark bosom; cauldron of strife
With jolting, painful movements rife
Helios incubated the embryonic pod
Unction sparked from Zeus's rod
Jupiter's vital streams embalmed ingrown clod
With growing pressure swelling...

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Increasing my laughter eyes full of tears invisibly 
Heart shouting help 
Limiting at my ears
Can't be spoken out loud

Faded destiny 
My quest fades in the deep of away
Embellishing my pain with smile
Held contempt of my anguish 
Slicing through the bitter fruit of life 

Once I...

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Mercurial silver hearts
forever entwined in meshed armor 
two souls communing in a magnificent way

supporting, loving, satisfying
ethereal feelings surpassed by no others 
in a land where no one can reach them

mystical companions, soul mates until the end of time
chaste mysticism entwining them in her magic 
together...

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Silver washes through the sea
Veins trace life deep into me
White transpires, falling free
From this Tree of Mercury

Thus have I seen love's bright sheen
Shining forth the last sunbeams
One white light 'midst all the sea
This crying Tree of Mercury

Orbs of sunlight drip to dirt
Where veins of life...

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Ethereal, the earth no longer beneath my feet
Words immaterial, I will try nonetheless
Otherworldly hues imperial to our accustomed views
Nightly masterpieces our asterial neighbor creates
Unique beauty in our mercurial clouds

11/05/2021
Something Beautiful 5 line rhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by charles messina...

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We are a mercurial Gemini women.
Yes, you read this correctly.
We are so many personalities.
It might seem nutty to a Capricorn or Aries woman.
But we are at least six, maybe seven women
in one body that used to be tiny.

My husband of fifty years flinches when we...

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Spring's annual rhythms cerebrally flow
Nature's mercurial splendour to show
Balmy portents o'er icy mantle glow
Earth's axis tilts; hearth to mellow
Helios's furnace with spawning heat doth bellow
Residual beams to brush face so sallow
A glossy, emerald sheen on encrusted folds bestow
A jaundiced hue from airy cisterns doth shadow
Revitalizing...

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Mercurial

  authoritarian lead style
heterodox
    person
or
    group
holds
   lightning rod
for 
    criticism
from
   old-fashioned
readership

FACTOTUM

works 
    tirelessly
glossed 
     as "do all!"
with
     force 
behind 
...

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A woman in white coat
by Bernard Chilambe

The soft touch of the woman in white is felt by people in pain 
What this woman does is not plain 

She never says much as she is mature 
Her clothes describe her heart that is pure 

Where does...

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