Best Poultice Poems


Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
...(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales 
Ships p......

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Categories: poultice, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poet's Words
...The experience of penning one's thoughts to paper
for the perusal of others
offers a certain inner satisfaction
that must be experienced to be appreciated;
letting your words guide you
to a deep......

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Categories: poultice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Randomlings 1-34
...Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause nothing rhymes with "Macfadyen......

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Categories: poultice, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse

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Premium Member No Greater Pain
...Hope is a collage of fragmented feelings
that fan the embers of today;
scattered amidst yesterday's ashes.
Stoking the sputtering flames of tomorrow;
egos and pride parade brazenly
upon ......

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Categories: poultice, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Summer Solstice
...Summer Solstice Contest
Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton


The Celtic solstice brings forth enchanting fear,
   equinoxes altitude from the moon’s apex glow,
      the occult in its nature is rende......

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Categories: poultice, fantasy, magic, summer, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Wound That Never Heals
...Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I......

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Categories: poultice, christian, husband, mother, music,
Form: Verse


Premium Member Soul Stance River - 22
...The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls
varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles,
they also confirm that the right river was chosen,
we ......

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Categories: poultice, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Snail Will Get To Easter Just As Soon
...Faulkner's comment, I imagine him
tossing it off like Yogi Berra between games
of a doubleheader. The hero, the expert, the virtuoso
has no real control, is going to feel
unmitigated, unsparing f......

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Categories: poultice, community, death, easter, games,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Horses
...They were on the summit of the hill as if poised in a portrait.
The breeze ruffling the stud's forelock and mane as he arched his head
responding to the reins he moved on as his rider leant forward......

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Categories: poultice, horse,
Form: Narrative
Thanksgiving
...Thanksgiving 1930

     Mama was running around the house trying to make space for everyone to lay their heads when the night draped the day.
     The house was jovial and laughter bang against th......

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Categories: poultice, holiday,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Medicine Man
...THE MEDICINE MAN

When I was a girl,
We lived way out back,
In the swamplands where life,
Was hard but no lack,

Of love and good humor,
And inventive fun,
We were tired but happy,
When day was done.......

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poultice, childhood, family, life, native
Form: Quatrain
Inherited the Dreams of Lunatics
...Inherited the dreams of lunatics!
like a "straw eaten up" blowing by wind
to mind's eye," so I rushed
cleaves the heart whiteness in anger
from the upcoming days.

Ah _ oh( lunatics' wisdom) 
......

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Categories: poultice, crazy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Randomling 22: Newton's Poultice
...Apple falls from tree
Newton (ouch!) takes notice
Comes up with law of gravity
while wearing a poultice
on the solstice......

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Categories: poultice, science, word play,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Return To Rotgut Part 1
...They say he had three Mothers
The Earth, the Wind, and Water
And His father was the Sun
And the Moon was his daughter 
He wore a gun in his belt
With clothing made from hide
As He walked, He ma......

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Categories: poultice, culture, dark, death, judgement,
Form: Ballad
This Time Around Is For Me
...Traduced! Forgive but don’t forget is the adage
How can one heal whilst storing the ugly image?
It’s the lie entailed by cowardice…

So a mind, replete with forgiven but unforgotten
Turns irrati......

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Categories: poultice, art,
Form: Tail-rhyme
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