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Best Periscope Poems

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Periscope
There is a submarine periscope  
that's staring intently.  Let us hope 
that our frail little boat's 
got aboard stuff that floats.  
All...

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: periscope, adventure,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member A Sonnet On Popeye
One character I used to like a  lot
was skinny, bald, and not at all refined.
yet he was superhuman when he fought
and also had a...

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Categories: periscope, character,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Odysseus and the Siren
"Odysseus and The Siren"



There he is 
like Odysseus 
bound to the mast of his ship
cursive words dispatched 
through aether to 
the somnolent nodding
in their stock...

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Categories: periscope, for her, for him,
Form: Romanticism
{"myannapavlova,'With,Love!'"~}
Resonating magnificent resplendencies of such rhapsodies

Resonant, amid this glowing renaissance of her resurrection....

Lost opaque dreams, awakening to find these vibrancies of colours

As if van Gogh...

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Categories: periscope, love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Seeker Seeking
Who’s the seeker seeking,
powers for mind-body
and to what end, hermit,
for that is not the way
to reach heaven’s summit.

Who’s the seeker seeking,
gift of astral travel,
of mentioned...

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Categories: periscope, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza



Premium Member Luminous
Luminous
lights appear
in my long dreams,
as my soul, so it seems, holds high
a periscope
for my heart and mind to see
every surrounding scene

beyond the heavy, seamed quilt...

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Categories: periscope, dream, environment, god, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Desert
a rattler flicking its 
split tongue...gathering
chemical messengers~ Prairie Dog
without a prayer

vulture, periscope downward
navigates a granulate sea, 
follows the wavering flow of tracks~
just over a grilling...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: periscope, dark, death, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Conspiracy Tabloids
Dragon found a conspiracy tabloid in the Grocery store the other day.
Now. He believed every crazy thing that rag, had to state and to say.
So...

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Categories: periscope, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
The Lusitania (Part One)
More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: periscope, history, warwar, war,
Form: Ballad
Tiny Window To the World
Tiny Window to the World



Marooned in the consuming gloom
Cut away from escape or from egress
Between me and the Wild World
Ly a tiny window
Through which I...

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Categories: periscope,
Form: Verse
Lost Into a Deep Black Hole
I was trapped
and bemused
feeling sad
and confused
a subatomic particle
lost into a deep black hole
and suddenly
you stuck in your magic telescope
and I opened up
like a flower
I shot...

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Categories: periscope, allegory, devotion, fantasy, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Atlantis Rises
ATLANTIS RISES 

After 7000 years    old Atlantis    alluva sudden come up yesterday
Popped up – skinny end first – like...

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Categories: periscope, funny, old, old,
Form: Narrative
The Eternal Patrol
The U-boat left the mouth of the French harbour
Under cover of darkness for these German Navy martyrs
To the North Atlantic they went to sink Allied...

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Categories: periscope, war, world war ii,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In That Clasp of Silence
I slither through the deep forest 
across a mystical scene collecting remains
from last evening’s venture : a  shiny ligure,
china teapot, faded locket, and scraps
of...

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Categories: periscope, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Dark Kiss For Contest
DARK KISS
                       ...

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Categories: periscope, betrayal, evil,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs