Best Montage Poems

The words we use become pictures into lives
Pictures from words spread out for all to see
This is what becomes of our poetry
Has the makings of a montage to me

With words we complete many pictures
Pictures then arranged to fit in closeness
And so with our poetry I...

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Tonight, a montage is brushed with a splendor
of glazed branches : an arrangement of russet
teal and orange; dappled wisps enticing
my spirit for a pilgrim beyond my own angst.

In pure delight, tendrils of leaves are aflame
through the glory of a varnished summer.
Feathery rims unfurl in dotted...

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Black-headed flowers wear long drooping ruffled petal skirts.
A black crane, statuesque, stands in the tall green grass amongst them.
The tallest flower - distinctively blonde - has arms to touch the crane!...

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My life here on earth
Spreading out for all to see
In my poetry...

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Fragments of dusk, like a montage
The pagoda of trees
Nocturnal smiles and whispering;
Are caught up in the breeze.

Then a young star rises above
Her fingers warmly crown…
Dusk breaking nightfall, glints the air
While a city slows down.

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#1
planetary caution
shards of ice slow river’s flow -
wet dreams in winter

#2 
pieces float seaward
season’s broken spirit weeps –
humpty dumpty earth

#3
glaciers slide downhill
seasonal creep advancing -
uncertain future

#4
man’s season fading
haikus yellow stains on snow -
postcards mailed to self

December 11, 2015 - Brian Johnston

#1
off-color sunsets
red sea's poisonous algae...

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Castle of Dreams

Lutes and violins
Gothic dreams, pleasures of sin
Recited poetry
In my chamber of fire
Wine distills lulled memories
She evaporates
Into my mind...

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Constitution:
From the mighty quill feathers of post revolutionary colonists
a seething declaration that will stun the world. 
This is how its done, 
we dont mind you having guns,
say what you will, 
thou shalt not punish unusually, 
we make the laws, you interpret them...

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MONTAGE    MELTDOWN


Giant killer bird in death struggle with freak  girl-flower.

Bird combs child’s hair, child smoothes bird feather.

Concrete  bird-statue being pushed over by tot-vandal pest.

Awarded last place  in   Tidy Garden Contest .     

Child and...

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In sunburst morning
Clouds drift on light wing
Focused sunrays pierce
Curtain and pane glass
Blaze a track to sun
My cold life I run. 

October 31, 2017.
Contest : Tableau Prints
Sponsor : nette onclaud...

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I spent the morning

wrapped in words, warm

Blanketed 

In layers

Buried in feathers

Of birds

That once flew

Among

Friends 

Climbing high

Into the sky

Buoyant

On the winds.


With the window

Open

The world

Entered

Fresh

Alive

And sunny

Beckoning


And from there

I created

Mixed the ingredients

a stone milled

Bread

30 sec of Wild Compassion

And 14 sec of Somewhere in America

Listening I was moved

Also to...

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Caught up in a mournful and jumbled montage
It's an exhausting malicious barrage
Just shards of a sordid side show collage
Our sweet smiles are transparent camouflage
For your aching ego there's no massage
So now park it in a soundproof garage
And join your noble leader's entourage
Chant blue, red or...

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Mystic melon moment

Moistening thirsty lips

Molecules of pleasure

Mooning about within

Mellow crimson milieu

Mirth in hemoglobin

Montage of the summits
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April 20, 2017
Pleiades M - Poetry Contest
Sponsor : Kim Merryman...

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Fond memories
Flashback and greet;
Swiftly, surely


Fond happy day
To sense anew;
Attend sightings


By my beech desk
Digital memories;
Slideshow compels


Pictures of times
In winding lanes;
Portraits now talk


So much of life
Zesty and swift;
Family history


Those were the days
Starting with nothing;
Patchwork of storms


An early spring,
Summer madness;
Autumn's fond fest


Here we are now
With winter chill;
Fire keeps...

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Lovely dreams; purple caribous and pink giraffes amid marvels placebo cycles....

Twineful fertile world always trying to inject its truisms twinkling 

Twenty milligrams of cloaked melancholy; and misery loves company?!

As gazing into the storefront window at the merry made mannequins

Wearing their mystical montage apparels; with bipolar...

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