Best Parenthesis Poems

(don't tell anyone)...

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I keep your facial poses under lock
with myself as the only key
so I may live in your parenthesis.
You were a multilayered, solid color,
wishing to be a pattern of unique luster.

If a creek, you would have swollen,
if a cloud, you would have burst,
yet still, I thirst...

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It's relatively a slow process.
A thought builds upon anticipation.
Thanks to the nostalgia ingrained by Disney.
Musically the songs are different.
Granted the press of a thumb.
Spotify, Pandora.
An assortment of different streams all profoundly deep.
Separately, the adaptation is the same.
Boy meets girl.
Eyes go on vacation. 
Suddenly we're dressed...

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Repeating doubts
Squashed between
Brackets in my 
Head; they clog
The free-flow!

Freedom to let
My mind wander
To and fro,
Like it does
When I'm happy!...

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Upon (die) re rhea ding previous poem
     All In The Name Of "Progress" zen
a glaring, leering,
     and twittering left par wren
     dared to a right (i.e. bribe)
     corrective punctuation...

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(Do not allow yourself to be parenthesized

The print of your baby finger spills over the edges

Of those brackets.

You should never be an afterthought,

A clause he can delete.


Your hands fill paragraphs

The life lines and love lines

Stitch together the pages of the book

That is your body.


The stu

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oh, how i wish i could write
like the wonderfully weird e.e. cummings
but the right words somehow escape me
left only with personal shortcomings 

it’s clear, i’m no Shakespeare,
Keats, Poe, or Byron
though heed my many utterances 
as the call of the prating siren 

so let the verses...

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Dresden, it is said, was bombed to an ashen landscape,
A giant burned out match head.  Explodable no more.
Small Dresdens found along our driveway no longer smell of sulphur
But remind me of Father lighting cigarettes.
My father, nicotine addicted,
Member of the greatest generation,
That saved the world...

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Echoes of her laughter
(they’re sounding in my heart)
Thinking she is with me
(I wake with a start)

Silence and without her
(I search inside the room)
Within my heart however
(just darkness and the gloom)

Embracing her was sweetness
(loving her was divine)
Together we can make it
(I am hers and she is...

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It is the perfect handedness of endless bliss
the cadence, embrace the double-mirroring kiss,
silence is the most notorious happiness parenthesis.

Even when the dual night vigil blew
All the stretched-out empty days reminded you 
Of promises and tragedy that passion drew.
In the perfect kiss, we once knew.

But time...

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