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Best On With The Motley Poems

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Premium Member The Book of Books
A book comprised of sixty-six,
with content of a unique mix.
Though found in almost every home,
It’s very much an unread tome.

The authors were a motley crew,
Into...

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Categories: on with the motley, allusion, bible, christian, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Jester
THE JESTER

Jester jingles
with madcap medusa-bells,
dressed in melodic-motley uniform.
A sea of foamy frills
frame the famed renaissance storyteller,
a creature feature
of phantasm for frightened children.
His ghost-white face
with comedic...

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Categories: on with the motley, history,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Despair Dispelled
Dawn's rays burst through gray clouds
Though evening's bitterness lingers
She struggles to shake free of tear-stained, satin shrouds

Each morning, so much effort just to rise
But lips...

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Categories: on with the motley, animals, happiness, naturenight, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daylight Disappears
As shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight,
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets. 
 
Twilight's crimson-colored clouds coalesce,
tinting...

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Categories: on with the motley, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Casual Observation
It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...

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Categories: on with the motley, angst,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Home Sweet Home
There is one place in this lonely life
where I can run away to on this long, dark road.
Only the moon knows my way home tonight
and...

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Categories: on with the motley, heart, home, lonely, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Snow White and the Seven Dorks
A magic mirror told the queen that Snow White was the fairest in the land!
This put Her Majesty in a terrible snit and to the...

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Categories: on with the motley, funnyhome, snow, home, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pondering of a Puddle
Ponded and becalmed after the downpour, lying in shining stillness, I reflect an earthly existence; above me newly leafed limbs, and beyond, the wild beauty...

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Categories: on with the motley, april, destiny, fate, imagination,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Soaking Up the Sun
Saffron sun shone brightly, though it was a rainy day,
And varicolored umbrellas were up, in wild vivid array.
All shades were abloom, on the beautiful Dahlia...

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Categories: on with the motley, beautiful, color, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Emotional Stew
What is emotional stew, you ask
Describing that is in itself a task 

It's a motley mix of chunks and bits
In a pot of feelings where...

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Categories: on with the motley, food, introspection, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Tribute To the Jester
You tango, you twirl in tangerine tails, 
With ragged red’n’black blouse and shoes
Little leather flimsy flopsy boots with dinky tink balls, 
Balls that ding a...

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Categories: on with the motley, happiness, happy, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Tatters
Suddenly from somewhere
A street urchin-
An untamed bird of the wider sky
Dropped down
Into the circus tent
Before him was unfurled
Scenes eerie….awesome!!

Roaring lions and tigers,
Gibbering baboons, caravans of...

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Categories: on with the motley, angst, childhood, heartbroken, smile,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Eagles Soar
Where Eagles Soar

Flying far above the masses
In azured tinctured skies, 
They fly independently.
For that, is where true class 
lies!
They want no part of any
motley crew birds.

Just self-determined...

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Categories: on with the motley, confidence, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispers of Unwritten Absence
Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on with the motley, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Prologue to Springtime
Written: April 22, 2024

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Whimsical whispers of...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on with the motley, analogy, beauty, spring,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs