Best Notched Poems
Maudlin Mary
...Modeled by the skilled and clumsy hands
of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness,
a penniless waif appears on a stool
last week a stranger called her Mona Lisa.
Statu......
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Categories:
notched, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Freedom's Rare Sanctuary
...like a grumpy ogre the twisted old tree stood guard
notched scraggy boughs reached out in fierce surety
naught had ever compromised its task
in its dutiable charge
the primeval stone held fast ......
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Categories:
notched, courage, england, history, magic,
Form:
Suzette Prime
Remember Remember Mum
...Remember remember Mum when we were small.
Holding hands as we learnt to walk,
Teaching us how to talk.
On the swing you'd push us high
Till our feet could touch the sky.
A magic rub when we had ......
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Categories:
notched, age, birthday, daughter, happy
Form:
Free verse
Welcome Back
...Welcome back to you my misery
played out for all the world to see
bright lights and caricature circling
even buzzards want a piece of me
Shifts shred the tempo shallow troubles
bellow in a ......
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Categories:
notched, absence, music, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
REFUTED
...I dreamt of growing
As I was drowning
life was blocked with stones
I was just a vessel that turned
Sincerity would bring love
I thought that's the rule of the world
I leaned on opacity wit......
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Categories:
notched, betrayal, emotions, life, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
An Alphabet of Instruments - Abc
...A is for Accordion, squeezing air with bellows
B is for Banjo, five strings plucked by bluegrass fellows
C is for Clavichord, keyboard with a metal sound
D is for the Drums which percussionists ......
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Categories:
notched, 11th grade, music,
Form:
ABC
Land Is a Loom
...Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting mo......
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Categories:
notched, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Crackling Fire
...Come all ye faithful and gather around the fire place
Relieve your stress if good cheer you wish to embrace
Arctic weather can bring frost bite upon your face
Cold weather can be comforted by ......
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Categories:
notched, winter,
Form:
Acrostic
Assumption Endangers
...This is a anecdote about not taking things for granted....
Seeing how we often jump to conclusions based on wrong assumptions...
A top notched news photographer was in a mighty hurry...
He saw a......
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Categories:
notched, community, funny, hilarious, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Valentine Matte
...Countless generations lapsed since height of Greco-Roman mythology conceived, birthed and populated vast canopy of sky and expanse of terrestrial firmament, whereat obeisant propinquity quintessentia......
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Categories:
notched, adventure, age, animal, body,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Hidden and Fallen In Disrepair
...Mossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone
No family members left to maintain is known
Thus hidden and fallen into disrepair
Deeply weatherworn and embraced there
This marker sets ......
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Categories:
notched, death, family, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Six Men Dead - Part 1
...© 2011 (by Jim Sularz)
(The true story of Frank Eaton – AKA “Pistol Pete”)
At the headwaters of the Red Woods Branch,
near a gentle slope on a dusty trail.
On an iron gate, at the Twin Mounds c......
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Categories:
notched, history,
Form:
Ballad
Eggplant Transplant Experiment
...They've been working on this for years
Inside the government
To try a replace the brain of man
With that of a purple eggplant
This idea to me sounds genius
If you know what it is that I mean
......
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Categories:
notched, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Cocreation Psalm
...Earth Time's song and dance
through preexisting space,
my song
our PolyCulturing Opera,
time's co-passion story,
climates and cultures of existing place
as regenerating space.
Time's opaque......
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Categories:
notched, adventure, birth, destiny, earth,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
1mdb Walking Free
...1MDB Walking Free
Talk about living charmed lives for some people in positions of power.....
The latest involve news of the latest appointments of certain financial figures...
News about Presid......
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Categories:
notched, america, betrayal, community,
Form:
Free verse