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Best Out Of Sorts Poems

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An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: out of sorts, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Big Girls Do Cry
They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: out of sorts, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healing Power of the Drum
your labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done

I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...

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Categories: out of sorts, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form: Free verse
The View From a Window
A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...

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Categories: out of sorts, life,
Form: Rhyme
Would You
Scrolling and scrolling 
the scripts slipping in 
seduction of the scene 
seen or unseen 

deflection 
not to mention reflection 
mirrors don't always appear 
to be...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: out of sorts, love, political,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Feeling Blue and Knotted Up

in the fervour of my sweat
sheets drenched
i wake to the toxic bellow of my own voice
in the torment of my own thoughts

in the complexity of...

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Categories: out of sorts, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love You
I wonder why
It's always so strange
                   ...

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Categories: out of sorts, girlfriend-boyfriend, lovelove,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laureate
"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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Categories: out of sorts, dark, freedom, hero, light,
Form: Romanticism
Long Forsaking
Faraway, across a widening 
Expanse of vacant fields,
Dawns slated light is gradually 
Awaking;
And too soon new Morn's stilled 
Indifference 
Determinedly steals
Into the abstractions  of...

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Categories: out of sorts, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Around the Corner
As I walk downtown I see an alley 
Where a black cat sat staring up at me,
The sound of her purring was so soothing 
Lulled...

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Categories: out of sorts, cat, halloween, october, scary,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: out of sorts, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Ass In Hole -
This is the donkey; Alice

                 ... follows the rabbit...

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Categories: out of sorts, blue, humor, nonsense, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...

A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...

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Categories: out of sorts, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - the Fabulous Queen of Egypt -
Woke up to a new life in Egypt
I was young not more than seventeen years
Adorned with gold and precious stones
My body was in the shroud...

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Categories: out of sorts, history, life, love, me,
Form: Free verse
Before You Say You Love Her
Before you say you love her
Have a drink with her first
Wait until she becomes intoxicated
Not to take advantage of her but notice the way she...

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Categories: out of sorts, anxiety, boyfriend, deep,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things