Best Needling Poems
Halloween
...Happy pumpkins
Apple dumplings
Licorice sticks
Lollipops to lick
Owls hooting
Witches looting
Emerald city dreams
Every Halloween
Needling together fun things......
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Categories:
needling, art, halloween,
Form:
Acrostic
Of Loves, Once Borne
...She was weaving a silken tapestry with long silver threads
and golden memories from her life that hadn't yet faded
Drizzles of sorrow fell with every loving stitch taken
until the sto......
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Categories:
needling, age, poetess, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Exchanging Dreams: Shadorma Poem
...EXCHANGING DREAMS
two old men
with retirement’s eyes
exchange dreams
on a bench,
growing tendrils of old age…
as night becomes dim
they recline
like curled sleeves w......
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Categories:
needling, life, old, time,
Form:
Shadorma
Rsvp (For Mgh)
...I've heard words falling from lips like petals
My poems praised like dead heroes
For unbequeathed solacies
And sometimes a genius ask me where
Do the words from come from
Like drops of bloo......
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Categories:
needling, lovewords, me,
Form:
Free verse
Excessive Compulsion
...And her voice is the tingle of upbeat blues,
the winsome rap amid my heavy footsteps, past 2 am...
She holds my hand as I’d never wake up
after twilight, drinking to the end of a broken bott......
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Categories:
needling, caregiving, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Script Writer vs Poet
...You capture me with your radiant smile
Hearty bold laugh impassive and vexing
Little grey hairs in your barely there beard
Needling your chocolate chin for years
Your artistic style and fashion ......
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, art, black african
Form:
Free verse
Old Vines
...A clamorous stream of jar fly voices punctuates the dusky air,
their timbale orchestra madly vibrating raucous sound.
Hand brushing hand, we stand in the garden’s waning light,
where fall’s punge......
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Categories:
needling, autumn, eve, garden, senses,
Form:
Free verse
Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
...Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly i......
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Categories:
needling, abuse, dark, emotions, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Whiskey Hymn - First Part
...for The Beloved, a night at Nedjima Bar (Ankara, Turkey)
… hypnosis shattered by atomic jiggling, salivation of song on your brow,
channeled chaos of body, spastic sound, tantrum of dark delight, un......
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Categories:
needling, love, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Bigger Person
...ode to be the bigger person
to see the stupidity in another’s ways &
to decide on the route of complete indifference
before giving them the satisfaction
of getting into a little spat which might
dra......
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Categories:
needling, life, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
The Hen House
...Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant
dwells amongst an elder net
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky m......
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Categories:
needling, care, class, environment, farewell,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Fall Festival
...Her indifference was merely a façade,
Mine too, if truth be asked, it might have been.
The day had been an autumn harvest festival,
A ballroom packed with clichés ringing as bells
A banner was ......
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Categories:
needling, dark, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Onion Syndrome
...Tortoise layers grow
Spider sideways and implode
Needling the way home......
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Categories:
needling, confusion
Form:
Spring Season Serves As Natural Antidote
...Sunshine undulates across verdant plain
casting dark shadows ushering twilight zone
ringing athwart tree trunks
invigorating, joyously kickstarting,
and plenti revitalizing
bountiful nature buz......
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Categories:
needling, appreciation, beauty, butterfly, earth,
Form:
Pastoral
Atalanta Reincarnate
...(presumably still alive
predicated on rumored sightings dive
ving fast as blazing saddles,
her blitzkrieg,
nothing but a blurry beehive.)
Swifter than Usain
(lightening) Bolt......
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Categories:
needling, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Epic