Best Papier Poems
The Trip of My Life
...the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . .
Madrid’s grimy walls
As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in late January. We had left behind us what has been......
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Categories:
papier, travel,
Form:
Haibun
Living A Dream
...All I asked of life was love, be real;
so it could mold my heart like potter's clay.
But I question, is it love that folks feel,
or are competing emotions at play?
Is love real, or merely......
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Categories:
papier, 10th grade, anxiety, emotions,
Form:
Sonnet
Mascara Tears
...I know how to make your makeup run
Make you bleed like light bleeds from the sun
Cause the mascara you wear to smear down your beloved face
Tell me, how do tears stained black taste
I know how ......
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Categories:
papier, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Silver Cycle
...In a pinch of the slenderest fingers
like tapioca beads to the wind
the mercury fog is popped.
Wild silver happenstance rains down
and settles quiet. Quiet.
Had my pale head touched the earth
......
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Categories:
papier, death, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
My Most Memorable Vacation
...There is a place so beautiful I'd love to see again.
My dream vacation started in Madrid, in central Spain.
How I long to stroll again down by Retiro Lake
and see El Prado art museum. Then for old......
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Categories:
papier, spanish, vacation, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Requim For Un
...United Nations, United Nations
What an oxymoron!
What an oxymoron!!
The platitude goes-
‘United we stand’
In the UN,
How erect we stand!
How erect we stand!!
We are *****erectus
Aren’t we?......
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Categories:
papier, sorrow,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Tessellate
...
“Tessellate”
on the surface
it’s easy to see
we tessellate
inadvertent
decorative ostentatious
flirtatious lives taking risks
with the other sides
planned str......
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Categories:
papier, earth, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Jade
...JADE
by Rosemarie Rowley
I knew you fainthearted what side you were on
When you talked of social reality: not Jesus at the well
With the Samaritan woman, or the invisible loss of power
Which halts......
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Categories:
papier, allegory, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
Sonnet
Nature's Cello
...Nature's divided into four seasons
each eye-catching in a similar way
and yet, different for many reasons.
Winter's crystalline beauty carries sway
but She is both barren and deathly c......
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Categories:
papier, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Terza Rima
Fallen Roses
...
God Bottles Those Tears
Shed For
Fallen Roses
In Memory Of a Friend
Written: By Tom Wright
5-17-00
Sleep,
Lay heavy o'er the room.
Fading fast, a single Rose,
That o......
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Categories:
papier, death of a friend,
Form:
Lyric
Manned Mission To Mars
...(Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)
If you can cope with no view of the trees but only sky
if you can navigate some toenail clippings floating by
if you can use duct tape to stop a wound from blee......
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Categories:
papier, humor, space,
Form:
Light Verse
Clutter Clearing
...Attack the clutter
In the attic pieces of life
And bits of me
So much clutter, sorting through
Old letters flutter
Unwanted, unread
Daring me to show I care
To reach through time
So dust-dimm......
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Categories:
papier, allegory, life, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form:
Blank verse
Into the Fray
...I have withstood this austere year
Waiting on skies which never clear
Shadows away
Fingers restless for an hour's peace
Scrapes gold flakes from a drying crease
of papier-mache
Random resis......
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Categories:
papier, courage, motivation, recovery from,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
High School Sadness Sans Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One Half
...Subtitled: A Quiz Sic Hull Emotionally Test Ting Senior Event
Valedictorian treads across makeshift platform
i.e. most likely auditorium stage
marked by pronounced hushed audience,
who......
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Categories:
papier, celebration, class, dedication, father
Form:
Ballad
The Idea Is To
... The idea is to...
steep oneself in panacea
scriptures
when times see......
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Categories:
papier, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue