Best Paled Poems

...In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays burni......

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...I thought you the Master of Expression
               Your verbal dexterity
     Word play, a rarity: perfection
     Nothing could be more eloquent
           Nothing on earth as fine
    Nothi......

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...Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as brilliant glows entered sad heart and seeing eyes,
I heard voices from Heaven, soothin......

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...When Nature's Beauty and Sky's Heart Became One
 
Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as brilliant glows entered sad heart a......

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...There once was a raven haired Shrink
who had orange Juice Tequilas to drink

     while her scarlet souled Beau
     sucked her tinted red Toe

and she paled when he tickled her Pink.......

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...Rudolph paled because his nose turned brown
He couldn’t smile so he wore a frown

Santa wiped a tear from the reindeer’s eye
He hated to see poor Rudolph cry

Santa sprinkled on some Ch......

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...Tears
(for A, I shed)

When I herd these tribes and fashion cities
With my words, you are what's missing.
                           
             - Mookie Katigbak, The Proxy Eros




I c......

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...A rose is guarded from prying hands
By thorns along the stem
Reality makes the truth known
A heart can be kept safe 
From those who wish it maimed
By icy spikes of bitterness 
And distrust
Thorns are......

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...Memories, Long Sad Journey,
     
Bitter cold that Saturday morning, late in November 1969, I could see my breath parading before me. No breakfast as I had quietly left the house and started my slo......

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...Crimson rivulets, felled from a need for pain.
They forget to scream, and instead a sigh reigns.
The blade that strokes.
Each murderous thought it provokes.
An attempt to escape paled and failed.......

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...“Oh that ship has sailed..”
Shaking his head, following her voice as it trailed
He smiles to himself, ’give it time’, he knew, rays of Joy crack through disdain

It was love at first sight, the s......

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...Our breath is paled by the October moon—
I'm miming prints with her glance on glass;
But by window magic, don't we all swoon
To this season's world so barred and so blast.
I'm cloudy like the clo......

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...Dreams will never cease, 
I dream of our walk together
the lane of rustling shades
The holding of our hands
That gave simple but immense pleasure
 
The lying on the beach with star filled night......

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...His life proceeded as before
even though she left his door
he still got up at half past seven
ate his gruel and prayed to heaven

 he still went out to plow the fields
and calculated all the yi......

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...Waking to the dawns 
pattern of lace
Lovingly laid there 
upon your face
How the light and the 
dark did dance
Mesmorizing me into 
a deep trance
Even its beauty paled 
compared ......

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