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Best Quixote Poems

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Premium Member A Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza-W
Tough time – the economic crisis for a short period
Sometimes for the five members there’ll be few bread.

Mother would declare she'd already her share of...

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Categories: quixote, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member How I Resemble Don Quixote
Outwardly, I bear
but slight resemblance.
But, oh!
On the inside,
We are virtual twins!...

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Categories: quixote, adventure, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: quixote, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sky Cracked Open
"The Sky Cracked Open"



One day 
the Sky cracked open
the yolk of life
shined through

Splinters shifted
blooded angel quills
flew amongst the
black spots in the iris 

20/20 vision 
wild...

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Categories: quixote, dark, fate, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Trip of My Life
the grace of Paris
lingering in my thoughts. . . 
Madrid’s grimy walls

As our small group of students entered Madrid, it was an early morning in...

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Categories: quixote, travel,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member When I Think of You
When I think of you..I get the warm feel of friendship, 
born not in a place, but from time and space.
Friendship has a price --...

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Categories: quixote, friendship, heart, poetry, time,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When I Think of You
When I think of you.. I get the warm feel of friendship, 
born not in a place, but from time and space.
Friendship has a price...

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Categories: quixote, friendship, heart, heart, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member another voyeur -
open …
I keep my eyes open
to watch you as you kiss me
to think on all that you are thinking
all the carnal thoughts that
might be stirring...

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Categories: quixote, kiss, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Ending His Quest
Don Quixote
De La Mancha
ending his quest
for the Code of Chivalry
must not die a silent death
along the golden road of Spain
witnessing a fiesta red Sunset
while the...

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Categories: quixote, image, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Not This Rose
I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my...

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Categories: quixote, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sad and Stuck
sad
                        ...

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Categories: quixote, sad,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Dream Weaver
I’ve died many times over. Every night when I lay down my weary self to rest, my consciousness is extinguished.  I experience nothing until...

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Categories: quixote, dream, surreal,
Form: Haibun
The Human Condition
The absurdity of the human condition:
The only condition we try to make sense of,
Make reasonable,
Sanitized,
Certain,
Familiar,
When we know we can’t.

But still we love our categories,
As if...

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© Nick Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quixote, angst, death, deep, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wings of Desire
Last night's Wim Wenders film Wings of Desire, not starring Adam
      Sandler,
great in the great tradition of Metropolis, Fellini, Children...

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Categories: quixote, angel, art, desire, funny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe - a Rant
I CAN’T BREATHE

I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to...

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Categories: quixote, abuse, corruption, environment, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things