Best Penning Poems

Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse.
Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins
as he ignores cramped fingers while writing echoing refrains.

Each stanza arranged by sequence in the creation of a story.
Sometimes his mysterious...

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You always tell me how much you love my poetry
but is that the only reason you feel drawn to me?
I write Sonnets filled with love and romance for you,
adoring stanzas meant to caress your heart and soul,
but is it my rhyming words, or me that...

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Truths slant with his sharp angles. 
Skies cloud over as lies untangle. 
Spinning time, she spills gray thought,
kneads her words like clay till wrought.

Weary days, she works her pen,
beautifying dreams again.
When spirits lift, she will escape 
his rough hand from throat to nape.  

Even...

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A futile, or is it? scream at time to slow down.

A hello to other runners in this human race

A timid whisper through shrouds yet unworn

Some more words of comfort to following friends

Or just an ego seeking solace in achievement....

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On the twelfth day of Christmas, 
My true love penned for me:
Twelve odes quatrain-ing
Eleven haiku chain-ing
Ten lines dizain-ing

Nine rhymes a'riddling
Eight tongues a’twisting
Seven tyburns burning
Six trifalls falling
Five etherees

Four appalling puns
Three French songs
Two terza rima
And a pantoum
as a parody....

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I write, change and scrub
clear the slate again, and then~
a poppy has bloomed


Written: February 27, 2023

Strand Premier No 1192 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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Write Must I Penning the Praises of My Lord Accolades ---
                              ~~Accolades to Robert Lindley~~
Write must...

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As often as I pen my thoughts 
from head to hand
to what is wrought 
and arrive surprised  
at words once sought, fortuitously  
stained glass ideas appear 
like falling manna,
between these ears, 
doing whatever it is 
thoughts do best…
letter by letter,  
each welcomed...

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Poets try to create words
That nobody has ever heard
It comes from deep inside our soul
And with each poem our talent grows
We always have a pen and paper
To write down thoughts we'll use for later
Sometimes there is writers block
Then something suddenly unlocks
The door holding our thoughts...

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À propos preponderent passion penning poems...
posited puzzling apt aperçu...

While pondering particular
theme to address
amidst tangled webbed mental skein
today November third
two thousand nineteen,

unexpected Möbius strip
tease conundrum unforeseen,
yet as avid aspiring scrivener
only now I became keen,
which theoretical, rhetorical,

philosophical... predicament
may not suddenly find me
flush with green
i.e. profuse legal tender,
but...

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if Guernica were a poem ~ if I could write it...

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À propos preponderant passion penning poems...
posited puzzling apt aperçu...

While pondering particular
theme to address
amidst tangled wide, whirled 
webbed mental skein
today November third
two thousand twenty two,
unexpected Möbius strip
tease conundrum unforeseen,
yet as avid aspiring wordsmith
only now I became keen,
which unflagging vexillological, 

theoretical, rhetorical, philosophical... 
narratological, linguistical, judgmatical 
historical,...

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short and sweet, upbeat
relating nature’s wonder ~
freeing beautiful

...

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Commotion in and out of seasons
Opening of ancient doors, both with
Nuances and ignorance that birthed
Guilt and sorrow, both in latter and former days
Reverence to self-adjustments in doing what is within reach,
Ambient in thumbing up and drumming
Terrestrial support, self-budding to nail adequate audience
So promising, yet disappointing...

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Poetry is a great love of mine
a marvelous way to simply relax
gives to the mind a calming balm
thus bringing lines of thought so max

You don't need very many tools
just a writing pad and fine pen
put pen to paper all your thoughts
obey the inner voice so...

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