Best Pliable Poems

nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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I wonder where I will be 
when the sun sets on me…
for if I were a flake of snow,
a dying breeze, or autumn leaf...
then I’d...

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Okay we've all cracked the funnies
Joked about what's gone and what's still there.
How everything sags or wilts
Doesn' t work or is in a state of...

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On the Potter's wheel
I am clay - 
sticky, messy red clay,
being kneaded like bread,
'till pliable.
In firm but gentle hands
the Potter molds and shapes me into
a...

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Butterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation  
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces            ...

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Children, our most treasured wealth shouldn’t grow maimed
In joyful living and the art of life, they need to be groomed

At a young age when they...

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As we are all part of the same verse,
languages to belong by diverse.
When the pen is mightier then the sword,
rhymed words are the crown of...

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The last embers of daylight gleam across a round sky
to leave a red ribbon on the horizon...to underscore

The flourishing evening invites us in
as we slide...

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It is my mother’s birthday today.
She is 87.
87 and weighs 121 pounds.
121 pounds of ridiculous energy
She holds exercise classes
For the 90 year olds in her
Apartment...

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This morning I
Allowed God to open his hands
I wanted to see
My space in the universe
To find some meaning
For the the sixty years I traversed his...

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I who have dwelt long
 On the keeping of a vow,
That which is folded into 
  Steel --
And hammered and drawn --
The making and...

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I am a rag doll
Pliable, and gullible.
I believe you 
So tell me your truth and your lies.
I will not discriminate

Move me into places you want...

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She was lava lamp pliable
Easily moved and positioned
Flippy floppy appendages 

Ridiculously compliant
Rare signs of life
Loud breathing

Danger of falling
Bed sore bound
Six year coma...

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If only I could stay and hide ...

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After Dieting


Me, finally free
I’ve untied my hands
And let them explore
Greedily

Soft and rigid 
Hard and pliable
Textures and smoothness,  
Merge

Grabbing a succulent treat
My fingers  grip
The...

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