Best Prefer Poems

In music and artwork and poetry too,
top artists by genre I think must be none.
There simply exist too many of them
for me to name as the best only one.

So when asked who my favorite artist is,
I sat and I thought and I thought.
Finally I have...

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I Prefer Those Daring To Just Write


I prefer my poetry very raw and real
giving life and emotion to be seen
A prize, a parade - the real deal
not words delivered merely to preen
Stand back and give true strokes
reactions,good or bad are alright
Do that,touching the right folks
deep...

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what birds do I prefer
to slow me at night?

red winged blackbirds lament
and the mourning doves plight

what birds do I prefer 
to greet me each day?

the chickadee's insistence
the cardinal's delight...

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Sometimes I wonder about nature’s mysteries… 
how there is so much I can’t explain?
Like why the sand dunes can be heard to sing
or how flowers anticipate the rain.

Like how the sun rises to greet the day
and how at night it bids adieu.
Like how there is...

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The last time someone dropped into our pool,

it broke our concentration for crock school.

I didn’t join the food frenzy,

prefer Scots called Mackenzie.

So take this one mates, silk chutes bind my stool!


* For the “To Die for Limerick” contest. Hard to tell crock or gator from...

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Head straight to the coffee pot after I pee
What happened this morning? Good god mercy me
Empty Folgers can
Was I pissed? Yes ma’am
(Four extra-large bags make a fine cup ‘o tea)...

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Before I become a poet who is extinct
Want to be one who will be distinct
Also distinguished and loud and clear
Thank God Poetry Soup if finally here.

I woke up without a poem in my head
Now what should I have to do instead
No one out there do...

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I prefer crazed blue eyes
How  they
Magnetize
The ache 
I have
To make your insanity 
My own

I prefer crazed blue eyes
Won’t
Apologize
How I take 
Your flesh
And make your absurdity
My home

I prefer crazed blue eyes
Don’t you
Realize?
Nutcase
Lover 
Wackity wack wackify 
My soul

Let me look into your 
Anarchic mind
Transfixed by those...

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In seventy six we saw our hero win
The decathlon; it wasn’t a narrow win
But now Bruce Jenner
Sings alto, not tenor
As he transformed into someone’s heroine...

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Prefer The R Ending

Per
prefer
fine liqueur
would best defer
splendid connoisseur
for your bottle, monsieur
savor worthy, need succour
possess sparse palate, amateur
grand restaurateur entrepreneur

***monsieur; a title or form of address used of or to a French-speaking man, corresponding to Mr. or sir.

2019 November 07

*1st Place*

Rhyming Nonet
~~charles messina...

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Would you not prefer a chair Mrs Atwood? 
I'm sure we have one going spare 
You see that pink sofa that you brought with you  
Just won't quite fit up our stairs  

Would you not prefer a chair Mrs Atwood? 
I see you...

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Permit me to present a dark bird named Gypsy;
Pardon her silliness if she seems somewhat tipsy.
Pretending to be sinister, she’s one boorish brute.
Pecking in my kitchen, she is searching for fruit.
Pink apples!  she scowls, these simply will not suit.
Pigeons prefer peaches, peeled, if you...

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I am subject of your objections
your majesty
let us cloak ourselves
 in the moral fabric of religion
and make believe we're royalty
present an image to impress
a new age novelty
a dying breed of humanity
we knock at empathy's door 
beg entrance to the light
gained only from the price of
a...

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Attempts at free verse make me sigh
and shake my head. I seldom try!
Such lines are best by others penned,
those who create a moving blend
of vivid details flowing free. 
They earn sincerest praise from me!

Blank verse and metered, rhyming lines
I love, though every form confines
me to...

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I prefer you, you, you
Above all things
I love having you here, here and here
Even a few hours
I prefer you, you, you
Although you disappear
You only love me sometimes
What did you give me or what did you do to me, I don't know So   this...

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