Best Parentheses Poems

It was not easy, 
to rewrite a dream poem 
when you are bound and hurt.

        *

A twiner 
looms...

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Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in the...

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These are two etherees that will be put together side by side to form ONE complete poem having 11 syllables per line, so I thought...

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Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts

Absolutely no Botox...

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Do others think of you the way I do,
the embryo that grew beneath my heart?

There is so little proof you lived . . .
a metal...

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So many more. Just a sampling of favorites, per contest instructions.
For each poet I have included a sampling of titles in parentheses.

THREE OF MY FAVORITES

Gershon...

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Tozer, deep - thoughts
well explored with-
in the realm of man

Thankfulness, for what man
cannot touch -
deep mysteries of an eternal God

our speech, no matter
how profound cannot...

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Psycho Cat - IT

"In my sabbatical dreams after quarantine"
Visions of life run again at full steam
A little stiff, a bit arthritic, like
"The eerie board walk...

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You are my life's apostrophe
The part that has always been missing in me
You're right where the hyphen used to be-
You are my life's apostrophe

Once a...

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You are the poem,
you dwell inside the letters.
Apostrophes like freckles,
smile lines like parentheses.
It may be me that scribes the poem,
that finds the words and braids
them...

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Besides the hallowed covenant of The Way
 There is only one other univocal tenet I obey
  The human spirit is insuperable and indomitable
 ...

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At a rest stop on the highway,
In the women's room, a sign 
Saying, "Please don't steal the toilet paper!"
(Exclamation, mine.)

Beneath it, in parentheses,
Was added ("Yes,...

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The landmark was given the name 
"Exclamation Point," and indeed it became 
the most exciting place I'd ever known!
The "parentheses" between us shone
of sun "dashes"...

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Awakened by cops, I am frightened and confused. My parents arrested, I was removed. From house to house, I am placed with mannequins who “love”...

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There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is...

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