Best Mimed Poems
To Finally See You...Grinding you in the coal black mortar of my expectations,
I know your substance is not one to powder under impact
And yet I work here, feverish, to prove my trepidations wrong
I grind you, harder ......
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Categories:
mimed, allusion, analogy, angst, change,
Form:
Free verse
Induced Interludes...Induced Interludes
Twilight disrobes a soundless star
It claims some gentler theme from me
Caught lingering in a unified bestilled embrace
Beneath a unique spotlight of its gleaming afterglow
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Categories:
mimed, fantasy, metaphor, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
For Mary Magdalene...FOR MARY MAGDALENE
Between necessity and freedom I was crucified
Perceiving Himself endlessly on the cross
Yet aware, as an onlooker, petrified
My vision that never was, would be His loss.
I......
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Categories:
mimed, appreciation, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
Killing Time...Hands tick in motion but I hear naught
of the onslaught of killing time depicted.
Minutes run past me in tarred darkness
as the visions in my brain are obscured.
Clocks eat away m......
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Categories:
mimed, introspection, sound, time,
Form:
Free verse
Tropical Seahorses...How mysteriously mythical
And mystical you look
Magnificently minute
Maritime majestic migrants
More than marginally manic
Mesmerizing meanderers
Masterpieces
Peacefully going about
Your bus......
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Categories:
mimed, animal, beautiful, dance, life,
Form:
Alliteration
She.Alba...Beautiful Siren from a distant sea
Doctor Donovan wrote of their Mastery
Aquatic, seduction enchants me…
Merman disguised the Light in his eyes
Sang the songs that a heart finds nice
Extendin......
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Categories:
mimed, adventure
Form:
Mama's Golden Pond Cried...Mama's Golden Pond Cried
Mama loved to chew
off the Golden Pond
bone
chew the fat
of their autumn leaves,
dressed in splendor,
a scenic lake and cabin,
her pseudo stage,
of her new fou......
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Categories:
mimed, absence, betrayal, boat, mother,
Form:
Lyric
What Do I Do Now...Nocturnal go betweens as I wish wonder why and
pine and ponder the thrill of you, in-sensed
enraged plight unforgiving unkind-blistered
human frality relentless fingers grip and squeeze
the terrified......
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Categories:
mimed, loneliness, love, lust, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
War- Christmas the Truce...Guns fell silent, nervous heads appeared,
one by one from the trenches climbed,
for a short while no-one feared,
some spoke while others mimed.
They kicked a football,
hugged fellow man.
Peace ......
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Categories:
mimed, christmas, peace,
Form:
Nonet
I Can Speak...And now I can speak
With words unwritten
Because you listened
Word by word
Yesterday I spoke
With written words
Because you watched
Me Step by step
And I mimed to me
If I should or not
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Categories:
mimed, i love you, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Zero Gain...Murmur no things
or strings of sounds...
Could not care less
more-ish whispers
were Wicked
Whips of Words-
Weighted.
Tongue- lashing sharp
fork- tine Torture.
Cat-0-nine-one-one-tales...
Th......
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Categories:
mimed, abuse, anti bullying, community,
Form:
Free verse
An Eloquent Silence...I was once argumentative, though I am not at all proud of the fact,
I was extremely opinionated, expressing my views with little tact.
It is not that I was malicious, but I really thought I knew ......
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Categories:
mimed, fantasy, love, peace, people,
Form:
Couplet
Last Laugh...Last Laugh
© Ben Burton
Petrified slaves
Worshiping stars
Nobles and knaves
Uncaged in the dark
Gallantly fought
Gamely defended
Quietly wrought
Uproaringly rendered
Hearken to clues......
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Categories:
mimed, creation, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme
My Savior...Dedicated to Jazmine Russell
Another
angel has affallen
Before
she, stands she.
Corrupt,
she was not,
Demanding,
she was not,
Everlasting
beauty, she was.
Fell
for her......
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Categories:
mimed, angel, change, character, emotions,
Form:
Abecedarian
Under the Tree In Africa...Under the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the
morning breeze brush our
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes ......
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Categories:
mimed, africa, children, tree, water,
Form:
Narrative