Best Obtusely Poems

Once I dared render
A trapping of quintessence
To hold fast all that is you
Somewhere upon my canvas

To capture your beauty
In pastels of feigned adoration 
From charcoaled scratched eyes
Slowly her face takes form

Searching yesterdays colours
To recapture the essence of your voice 
Now merely a passionate facsimile
Obtusely rendered...

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Anxiety

Racing thoughts fill my brain,
As if they are tearing up the track.
My head pounds like falling rain,
And my heart is under attack.
Is there anything that can end this pain?

My palms are sweating profusely,
Why is everyone staring?
My thoughts are swirling abstrusely,
The bustling voices are blaring,
And I...

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Abortionists are heroes in this Christian's book of man,
They save a fetus from a Hell that 'Christians' seem to plan!
A mother left to fend for self, with rapist's child to raise,
While many who claim Christian views, obtusely share a daze.

A bastard born of woman "has...

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Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!

Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid conversations.

Dandified Darius decided daring dialogue
Dangerously divisive, declined discourse,
Deliberately discrediting dainty...

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Ogre

Often he’s a cranky,
Olive-skinned, swamp dwelling,
Obtusely-witted fiend...
Only bathes in mud—eats
Onions, garlic, ...(sniff)... GAS?!!
Ogre’s in the outhouse!!
Oh! My giddy aunt...RUN!

©deborah burch
4.06.2021

Pleiades 
Kim Merryman’s Pleiades O Poetry Contest...

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LOVE is Cosmic cause it spells with four Letters individually
L meaning longevity for
O meaning Obtusely with
V meaning Virtuosity behind
E meaning Expression
When others give LOVE a different impression 
Its force could either lead or leave you into depression,
Perhaps using it correctly will fulfill you with an...

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This desertscape dotted with feathers.
What need?  I haven’t a need
for umbilical utensils utterly useless 
on a Sanskrit road
long as the maiden’s Genghis apron
white as white gypsum in Alamogordo, 
New Mexico.  
Here you find blossoming curry spattered across 
an ancient horizon 
lulled by the...

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ominous skies of gloom
orbit through my head
obsessive while oblivious
ornery dragons and 
offspring hovering
o’er lofty castles 
obtusely perched in
opulent misty glens
of opportunistic prophecy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on October 30, 2018...

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Talking. Talking. Talking. At first it is fun, maybe even entertaining.
You are not sure exactly sure when it turns, but it does.
Suddenly the monopolizer’s ramblings no longer seem charming.
Patience worn thin, you try a few times to interject a word.
There is no pause, no break....

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Crater
stuck in the centre of my heart
spilling out blood
for you

I am unteathered from this earth
from your tender arms that once held me close
and my world
as it spins obtusely out of control
shrinks all that much more

for the loss of your love
is almost too much to bare

our...

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The old man sat on a bar stool all alone.
Acting like a king holding court on his throne.
While most patrons sat absorbed in their phones;
He spoke to any and all in cheerful tones.

I perked up my ears to have myself a listen;
Seems the old guy...

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24-7
 365
 MORE THAN JUST MY EYES
 YOU GOT ME
 "OPEN"
 
 I'M WONDERING WHAT KEY YOU GOT 
CAUSE YOU GOT ME ON LOCK 
HANDS OF TIME ON MY WATCH ROTATE 360 DEGREES
 LIKE FOUR TIMES BEFORE I RUN OUT OF LINES 
I'M "OPEN" 
...

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Give me something round
Edges to life should be circular
Beware of the elliptic mystery
Rotate your marbles frequently

Give me something spherical
Two hemispheres in harmony
Held together with super glue
Solid to the core and spiraling

Give me something not Michigan
(Round objects are illegal in Michigan)
Balls and clocks are criminal offenses
Cops...

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I: Something that changed everything

Something that changed everything
And yet in the end really nothing
Something so beautiful so hopeful
That turned so painful so doleful

The brain that failed to see the light
The heart that continued to fight
Both suddenly so powerful so strong
The harmony gone, they didn't get...

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