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Best Receptacles Poems

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Premium Member Womb Man
Woman, discarded remnant of Adam?
Fe-male, not to be given her own name;
her own identity, other than, a part?

Receptacles, empty bowls, hollow holes,
to be filled only...

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Categories: receptacles, political, social,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Spaces Between
No Particle Theory can ever be Unified – 
for there is always the space between...the
unknown that separates while binds us
in a matrix of primitive wonder....

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: receptacles, creation, imagination, inspiration, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Open My Eyes To See
I feel like 
I am all alone in this world 
with eyes
watching my every move

you might think that 
I was paranoid 
but every time I...

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Categories: receptacles, crazy, fun, funny, irony,
Form: Free verse
Lady of the Night - I
You were born in a war ravaged state
You lost your man to the caprices of fate
You fell prey to your wayward ways
Victims of betrayal, greed...

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Categories: receptacles, social, sympathy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
An Aphoristic Self-Portrait
As a writer, people are my vocation. 
As for humanity, men, women 
And other abstractions, 
Their interests constitute little more 
Than my hobby; I can...

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Categories: receptacles, celebrity, me, mirror, people,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bathroom Graffiti
There was a man who went out late
And tried to rape a .38
He called women "receptacles"
'Til one blew off his testicles....

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Categories: receptacles, boyfriend, courage, death, girlfriend,
Form: Quatrain
A Boys Life
April 8th 1972
Means more to me than to most of you

it was 46 years ago on a beautiful morn
In the country of Bratwust Is where...

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Categories: receptacles, birth, birthday, boy, growing
Form: Rhyme
Dangit
I swept the floor, but it's dirty again...pretty much what I expected.
The accumulation of dirt and grim is something safe to have projected.
If cleanliness is...

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© Brett Teal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: receptacles, corruption, funny, humorous, jobs,
Form: Light Verse
Thy Golden Globe
Wear your gown of golden glow
I’m shallow without your halo
Penetrate my limber' with your warm rays
Unfold into my everlasting Arms
Leave nothing to the red carpet...

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Categories: receptacles, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Homeless
The lawyer
who could eat your lunch
ate his quickly
on a cold outdoor bench,
when a revealing breeze 
introduced the pungent odor 
of his new neighbor.
The steely-haired vagrant’s
rumpled...

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Categories: receptacles, life
Form: Free verse
Dying Ashes
I venture through the toiling of days
Crumbling nights
Ever hopeful though chanting septic cries,
Dawn creeps past worn-out
eye receptacles...
and the ashen graves they see
They once burnt benevolently...

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Categories: receptacles, emotions, eulogy, pain, poverty,
Form: Free verse
The Mourning Path - St Louis Cemetery No 2
A tattered Calico traverses the crumbling corridor
dissecting a row of dilapidated sacred structures,
each uniquely indistinguishable from the next.

The wind carries an eerie refrain
as it whistles...

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Categories: receptacles, bereavement, death, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Glioblastoma
Glioblastoma

Glioblastoma - death in disguise
Makes its appearance before we realize
A stealth adversary lurking in the brain
Metastasizes without restrain
A complex enemy
Untrustworthy
Of unknown origin
Emerging from deep within
Deploying...

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Categories: receptacles, endurance, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
The Goddess of the Severn
Pulses drown saturated elvers 
As a crescent delivers it's catch
White bellied roaches slap and disperse
Pierced and broken suckers latch
Flushed forearms lock with a match
Bleached fingers...

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© Zack Dicks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: receptacles, blessing, fish, religious,
Form: Ballade
Concert
We gaze
The rock star serenades us
With platitudes
Neither near or far
Though only attainable
Appreciated
By submission
By admission
That you will never be
Never wander
Never wonder
For they've performed the
Magic for us
Catapulting...

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Categories: receptacles, community, desire, fantasy, hero,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs