Best Prefaced Poems

Open Letter to Thomas Jefferson

You sir, destination unknown, I dare
To address. A son of worthy causes  
For land vast in majesty and vast as
Vast can be in matters of liberty;
With ideals so prim and suffused with 
Philosophical forethought derived from 
Your bumper harvest of...

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For Jared Pickett's Trois Par Huit.....Tanka.....Rondel Contest:

It is fall
and now I’ve tasted gall -
prefaced by a final kiss from you.

The moon, huge ball above that shines a golden hue,
seems a sign auspicious - but oh, that is not true!
Trenchant words you spilled; my heart is...

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The Tropics: Earth womb
Nature’s seed incubation
Prefaced: world conquest...

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Too High A Price

"A pleasured life, too short a measure, a treasure that's too high a price..."

                       A photograph in blues unveils
 ...

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The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s  Il neige sur le crime

Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek of interminable shade 
lips held fast in the frozen depths
we...

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Thumb crush caterpillar fuzz follicle woven wire bent
Pipe cleaner indetectibly clamps fluttery paper crepe
Tiny tear splinter injury etched on crinkled parchment
Puncture forms an institute to forthwith contemplate


Together classified as flower, louloudia beauty flaunt
Plumage lurid thrives beside finite petal flop contrast
Tactical iron hand velvet glove primes...

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*Image of What Happens When I Put ... by UMC.

The Collection Plate,

'Tis a simple sacred place of worship bearing no weight, whereto, one's faith unchallenged, accepted universally.

A complement of thrice their numbers, religious qualities as true servants, pronounced by their autonomous tenet gathered did they;...

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Little known holidays occurring on February fifteenth...,
awaiting commercial sponsors to become...
what else...,but hand over fist money makers?
(http://www.holidays-and-
observances.com/february-15.html)

Excess Valentine's surplus sweet treats
and assorted paraphernalia
need not go to waste
said sappy accouterments
can be repurposed

quickly without haste
less pronounced celebrated fetes faced
overwhelming stiff as an arrow baste
in love potion, understandable
no...

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Percolating, who  we,  I’m  just  relating
Relaying the  conveying of  alarming  apex
Son’s getting  hotter,  sending  flares, scorching heirs
The roof  is  on  fire,  but  folks serving  gas in meme
Unleaded or maybe...

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                                          A night is...

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Lunar Revelation

Like the moon
seeking fulfillment,
my thoughts hung dangling
in cosmic crescent and yin-yang
spaces of contemplation
until tell-tale gibbous moments
of awareness prefaced 
the paralleling of the full moon
reality and life’s waxing and waning;
it’s crucifixion and resurrection;
and the revealed emptiness
of its cross reflecting the fulfillment
of its quest.

In the moon-glow
of...

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Mother Mary of Design
By David J Walker
 
You are my Holy Grail 
Pressing prefaced lips to 
The concupiscent chalice 

Passing eternal life from 
Time to Time eternity
From mine and yours 

The candle of our light
The cradle of our
Holy Seed

Adding to the royal line
Of the burning...

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No healthy oils
but beef dripping kept
solid in a white enamel 
can with a lid
in a cupboard under
the oven. Reused until
too dark and heavy 
with sediments, 
the dregs flavored 
the best chips.

Mothers carried 
the war year's frugal habits
into the fifties and so
it was with mine. 
My...

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you know what that infers, right?
the speaker has been droning on and on for thirty-seven minutes
I have no idea what prefaced this.
Not really, I admit.
she expresses surprise that I do not.
going on to explain
unaware I stopped listening twenty minutes ago
my longest attention span is seventeen...

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