Best Polished Poems

It is so difficult to measure,
any metaphysical treasure.
One can only glean, 
Its riches in stream,
By absorbing it at one’s leisure.

I’m speaking of poetry that hovers,
Levitating between it’s covers,
just waiting to be read, 
nothing left to be said,
Literature for life and lovers.

Tribute to Elizabeth Wesley’s 
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Once upon a shiny polished day, the sun shone bright as golden ray
and in the park where the children played the puppies danced ballet 
The kittens meowed from their outdoor yum cafe 
and the birds chirped from the trees while they surveyed 
the pretty ducklings...

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Ever polished,

Shoe flowers!...

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Expression painted
Polished articulation
Shell of a person...

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Polished Dust

Ha- haa our community has reared a bull
As it moves from the kraal it charges
Against a tree, a rock, and anything
When the moon peeps it charges at it	

When the sun rises it sneezes at it 
When cloud swims above it raises dust
Wanting to jump...

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November's bright dawn

mirrors a slate colored lake

beneath silver clouds

manifesting hope's glimmer

on this polished pewter day


Written 11/8/13 for Francine Roberts' Tanka Me Fall or WinterContest...

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A crude young fellow from upstate New York
He never learned to handle a fork
He jabbed at his food
In fact, he was quite rude
And he behaved like a back country dork. 

Written May 29, 2022
10/10/6/6/10...

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bloody bites bleed me
red lawsuits courtrooms sue me
paper lion king...

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You may give me jewels
But the jewel I seek is in you 
Deep within your heart
Waiting to be found like a precious gem in the ground
And once dug up it is not much to look at 
But polished in love oh there the true beauty...

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An uncle unpolished
The polished bamboo strips
He was astonished
When he was admonished
And repolished the polished strips.

29.12.2020 
Tongue Twister....

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Don't say a Farmer
Loves his fowl
Instead -
He loves himself.

Because he comes
Around with corns
To spread along their lawn.

With water cans.
And grains of kinds
To feed his fowls at dawn.

And coloured drugs
And injecting 'cines
To fatten his tiny things.

Cage is for shelter.
Lamp is for weather.
Armed dogs to curb robbers.

I...

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Softly glowing gold
Polished to a satin sheen
Sharply faceted diamond
Beveled edges contain fire within

Sheer golden heirloom
Speaks with grace in beauty
Humbly gleaming of unmasked glory
Polished to a satin sheen

Seemingly transparent beauty
Awaits the light for life
Caught in sunshines rays it ignites
Sharply faceted diamond

A spectacular set of friends
One of...

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As i look back on that Summers day in August 44
Soon to be transported back to Normandy's bloodied shores
I know i will be leaving, the girl of my dreams
Face to face as we say our goodbye's and tears like loving streams

The day that we first...

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Polish my shoe, polish my shoe today!
Polish shoe, polish shoe, reflect Sun’s ray, 
Hide my head to look at you,
So he will not have a clue,
Polish my shoe till my boss goes away!


Syllables checked at howmanysyllables.com
10,10,7,7,10 with AABBA rhyme 
Limerick Fun Poetry contest
Written 29/08/2020
Sponsor Tania...

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I shall not envy the upstart's polished gait, 
Or wish myself as old knights in diamonds
Hued to bamboozle familiar souls and eye, 
Flattered by aping pals and ersatz blondes. 

For swanky gait soon in quiet slumbers lies
In darkest gloom beyond men's urging eyes; 
Where kowtowing...

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