Best New Write Poems

you carve your words precisely 
like a master does a flawless diamond
infuse your images on the head of a pin
not a letter wasted 

you who
speaks from deeper within 
with every new write

never one or one hundred reads suffices
each new recite reveals something new
grabs the readers...

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A Poet , a dreamer , a man named Michael.
Named after my father and also a saint.
Drifting through time with my pen I paint.
Just a soul gliding in and out of God's cycle.

My name is known as the Godfather's last son.
Also a star who wore...

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(Dedication: For Monterey Sirak who is the first poet
on PoetrySoup who made me feel welcome here. With
my fond gratitude.)

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Movement feels mellow with spontaneous joy;
Orbit of sure spheres in changing charades;
Night stars to follow the impulse that toys;
Trust lovely times here to style your parade.
Enter a...

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Ol’ brazen Brenda, battlin’ biography,
Banters bewildered brave boatmen at sea,
Brushstrokes besieging her beleaguered brain,
Broadsided by fiction now baking insane;

Balanced between both broken and brilliant,
Buried by sorrow, bereft not resilient,
A ballyhooed author, back in the day,
‘Fore Brian betrothed her then drowned near the bay;

Basking bereavement, believing...

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A light

new write...

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We meet once a week, an odd group of poetic friends-
Hannah is from Atlanta and wears a bandana,
Abraham always says hello ma'am to me quietly, oh
Timothy is all fidgety, and
Stephen is dreaming and weaving some new write.

Ingrid and me, we have a kindred spirit, don't...

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I have written some real bad poems in my day,
so many questionable words-  I must say;
but although poor, inferior, I love my janky,
in dusty odd piles and boxes they lay.

To read them you will need a big hanky,
when they lose in contests, it...

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I Can’t Connect to the Internet

By Elton Camp

When I got home from having been gone all day,
It’s into my office to see what e-mail has to say
The Internet Explorer icon I give the usual click
However, it doesn’t accomplish the expected trick

In annoyance, “Oh my goodness!...

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Mr. Matsuo Basho
danced his words with delight
making better poets of us all.


Here I sit pen and paper in my hand
Mind is like a tornado whirling around and around
Many letters and words I need to find.


Today my computer and I have a really hot date,
typing out...

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You shine your light
With each new write
Helps me and others 
Carry on...

Your Honeycomb heart
Sweetness you bring
Rejoicing unto our Lord
For All our Hearts Sing

You do have a way
Every time I must say
Your Wisdom... Shines
Each word you express
here on line...

True from your heart
You bring... such Joy
Oh... Blessings...

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When not at hard work; play no copying games
Why copy the hard-work of another poet
If you want a new write do this;
put your pen on paper and dig in deep 
and see between the lines, 
and see your own piece to highly arise
A talent of...

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I think I’ve a cycle 
a monthly mindful 
when I will write more
mind will rhyme pour
with ease and a flex
I see readied text
a pick and or mix
choice with index
pen down at pace
ideas not too waste
on my hand my face
capture to place
and given within 
is rhythm...

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Parasites, these
unremembered memories
unbidden guests
made themselves at home
within my breast

And suckled in silence
‘til lifeblood waned
vitality drained
only traces remain
of who I was

Now I have become
an ungracious host
shadowy ghost
in a hollow shell
with nothing to feed
these guests’ great need

Odd sensation of wriggling
I feel them digging
their way out of my...

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Would you love to read the joy in poetry?
Would you pass poetry to the pit?
Or would you grant me the grace to write in defense of poetry?

If  you picked “yes” on the second and fourth lines
Then...

Refresh your thoughts.
Refresh the world.
Refresh the sky.
Refill the air.
Pave...

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She never did cease to amaze
      Someone who literly blew my mind
     When ever she'd set my heart ablaze
        It's how she made me feel I find
  ...

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