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Best Opportunistic Poems

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Premium Member Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...

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Categories: opportunistic, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opportunistic, england, history, identity, immigration,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What More Am I
The glamour of their squalor is found
in specular highlights of crisp brown eyes
peering through mud-matted hair, crying.

Weeks of eating an abundance of whatever,
which consisted of...

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Categories: opportunistic, child, christian, dark, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting...

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Categories: opportunistic, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi
youth, where imperfections trip upon each other
and opportunistic peers joyfully celebrate the folly
 - glass tree houses be damned...

and - a spun bottle breaks blood...

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Categories: opportunistic, life,
Form: Free verse



Humane Struggle
In the Congolese Jungle three men are training for a mission.
They train to detain and disarm poachers.
They hope this will be the conclusion of their...

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Categories: opportunistic, africa, animal, conflict, environment,
Form: Sestina
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: opportunistic, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Tunde Canada
The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to 
Embroidered in revenge.

Tunde Canada! 
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard,...

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Categories: opportunistic, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form: Free verse
Speaking In Tongues In Malaysia
Ho, ho, ho! 

There is this well written article, the link which I gladly give down below,
It is a most beautifully written anecdote of a...

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Categories: opportunistic, beauty, community, confusion, crazy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fox,Wolf,Coyote
P.D.'s Inner Quest.........................

__________
The Fox


 
rusty reddish coat
social in a cunning act...
a fox lingers free


 
a pre-dawn scavenge
vale of unknowing awaits...
slight movement, cautious


 
retreating homeward
a secure...

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Categories: opportunistic, animals, inspirational, natureautumn,
Form: Haiku
Womanhood
Wisdom wild wavering wyrd, wonder of winsome ways 
Ostentatiously opportunistic, Orpheus oneiric orchid, 
Marvelously mystical mirth maker making man amaze
Ardently argumentative, and artistic accenter; avid
Nymph....

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Categories: opportunistic, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Trees Rooting With Me
Last Autumn we invested in a 0.5 acre
of Mother Earth's aria,
as sung to Thames River swell and tide,
New England new sprouting this our virgin spring...

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Categories: opportunistic, creation, culture, earth, earth
Form: Prose Poetry
The Voice
Give me the hardy breed that thrives in the arid wild
The tougher kind that walks with a sure unfaltering stride,
The restless heart that without fear...

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Categories: opportunistic, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
  hominins humming mostly human song
  altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
  opportunistic, never staying long

  self-aware,...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opportunistic, destiny, earth, hope, humanity,
Form: Verse
Walking While Black
why do most people develop a sense of  fear
whenever they see young black men near ?
women clutching their purses a little closer to their...

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Categories: opportunistic, black african american, social,
Form: Didactic

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