Best Recent Poems

There are always those who say that you are wrong.
They are the ones who never stray from the herd.
They go to school and learn everything about life from manuals.
They write poems and stories like other poets and writers did.
They get good grades.
They stay out of...

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“I'll follow you to the ends of the earth” is a very old line
But recently, they've discovered earth is round, will take a long time
Sounds good on paper
But methinks this caper
Could mean death crossing by dinghy the ocean brine...

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Year fourteen ninety two
Upon Atlantic’s traverse
Europeans discovered food
On the other side of Earth:

Including avocados,
Amaizing corn and peppers,
And roots of sweet potatoes,
Which delighted early settlers.

Who shipped out jalapeños
To Europe, then to yonder
Followed by potatoes
On a march to conquer hunger.

Tomatoes, great for sauces,
The pineapple sweet-marvel,
And green-bean pods,...

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We've all seen it
their cloying intensity
to the new cause:
tobacco cessation,
gluten-free digestion,
mindful rumination,
deep cleanse elimination,
erotic poetry,
for the lucky
erotic reality,
alcohol abstinence,
Yahweh's deliverance.
And we can only
smile and nod
knowing
this too will pass....

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Thank you for your recent submission
We have reviewed it and decided not
To include it our next issue.
Wish you luck in your future pursuits.

Thank you for your recent submission
The editors are also writers and have
Received numerous rejection notices
And don’t like sending them out.

Thank you for your...

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECENT SUBMISSION
REVISED, RE-READ and RECONSIDERED it but REGRET
To decide not to include it in our issue next.
WISH YOU LUCK IN YOUR FUTURE PURSUITS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR RECENT SUBMISSION
The editors are also writers and they too
Receive WORTHY REJECTED poems of their own
AND...

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November is sweet, sunshine through bare trees, dry brown and
      fungus-free leaves companionably visiting among the dead
as I did yesterday our town's small graveyard military dads who recently
      died lie under polished stones embossed with...

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I woke my daughter up this morning
She sat up and I said, "Good morning, sugar."
She looked at me and said, "A monkey's uncle."
What's that kid dreaming about, anyway?

Our dishwasher went out
So I told my wife she would just have to wash by hand from now...

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Panchmukhi Ganapati

Five faced Ganapati relates to embodiment of all potencies
They symbolize the five fleshes in the subtle anatomy felt.

The flesh body, the breath or energy body, mental body
Body of upper consciousness and body of Cosmic bliss.
The fifth body being the highest level of Yogic experience.
Thus...

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Raise high the chalice for the saddened heart 
At the banquet for the king’s coronation; 
Sing the ballads of valiant warriors to depart. 

They who have returned to guard the rampart. 
Salute their bold stance for God and nation; 
Raise high the chalice for the...

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horrific, decades-long
study syphilis, study its effects
covert medical testing

army scientist
bitten by mosquitoes,
yellow fever
mustard gas,
enter chambers
temporarily blind

dark age
hospital patients
injected with plutonium,
atomic soldiers
in the waves
of nuclear explosions

trace amounts of radiation,
in breakfast cereal
of handicapped children
new drug, LSD
dropped over a French town,
unsuspected, hallucinations

with the latest discovery,
reports of dark practices
soon to...

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I just discovered that women who carry some extra weight a bit,
are very fierce and stronger than guys like me who mention it....

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bursts of blooming life
and peaches ripen so sweet
the sun smiles warmly...

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Blue cresents pouring down
Yellow beams roll around
Heavenly whispers enter these ears
Screams and cry heard ,we fear

We might be thousand miles far
But still hear the suicide bomb car
Exploding to put millions to death
Someday-it will all end...

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Our dear sister, yes sweety this is for you.
Thinking about you and the situation you've been through,
I felt an strong urge of putting my emotions into words for you!

Don't give up hope, do believe.
The memories wont leave,
but let those memories be your guide,
little angel, please...

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