Best Relative Poems

They crawl out of the woodwork
Shedding lots of crocodile tears
Grieving for an ancient relative
They’ve not visited for many years
‘Auntie Annie’ is barely warm
But now you see the relations swarm
Waiting for the will to be read
They rub their hands with glee
Hoping they will be left
Lots of...

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Love that’s so warm and touching
Essence of her touch
Filled my heart from being touched


© Joseph 9/25/07
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Relative compound: 3 lines of one word, with relative example(s)
The subject word must be at the end of each line
Syllable count is 7-5-7
Created by Alvin Othto Stewart...

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"Normal, a term we all know well,
Yet, its meaning begins to unravel and tell.
A spider's intricate web, a marvel to see,
Is normal to the spider, but a hazard to the butterfly.

Is normal an illusion we create?
A relative truth that varies with each state?
A concept that...

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This wedding is hard-labor duty
(All the guests are acting so SNOOTY!)
A whole lotta' bunk!
Guess I'll get drunk
And pinch that thar bridesmaid's stiff booty...

For Joann's contest...

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his will is now read
‘vultures’ stand round his coffin ...
pennies from heaven


Inspired by 'families' contest but not for contest!

1st May 2016...

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Relativity says go faster
And time travel backward you master.
But no tempting your fate
Making out with a date,
Cause kissing your dad’s a disaster....

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RELATIVE MORALITY

We live in our comfortable
‘anything goes’ world
where the word
‘tolerance’ is a code
word meaning
…don’t preach
I have no intention
of changing

Commitment is defined as
‘the mood’ of the
moment and truth too
‘complicated’ to pin
down emotion
…don’t preach
I have no intention
of changing

Our modern day prophets
‘preach peace-love- peace’
 in messed up worlds...

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sitting outback
...evenings...
under solar lights
...with the cat...

stirs perceptions
...normally obscured...
from thought of
...realities...

relative creatures
...observe...
as a norm
...differing patterns...

grouped
...by brain cells...
and manifesting as a
...random statistical...

life time-logic
...probability...
problem solving
...self aware creature...

like this
...loving cat...
with her hypnotic
...talking eyes...


stan sand...

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Emptiness is hatefulness
I once was hateful
Learn to let go of your hate...

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My loved ones gone
visit dreams of
cyan fields and
pixie cloud skies.
Is it a cruel trick
of the mind?
Or moments, out
of space and time;
caught in the weft
of our corduroy lives;
a small gift granted
to our past or
future selves?...

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.
The hill of life
may start out easy
but I keep my eyes
on the summit in the clouds.
.
When the rocks start
they tell me
persistence in the best selector.
I grit my teeth.
.
The summit is not green.
The cliffs around it
call me to accident,
and my jaw now hurts.
.
Here in the depths
of...

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our freedom's only relative, when everytime you watch the news,
they're beaming haunting images of
the lives lost, abused...
then we wash it down with a montage of flying flags and sauring eagles
so we stand to pledge allegiance to the lesser of two evils

a subliminal reminder, for the...

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Aunt Boo posted everything on social media.
Misspelling words, never using Wikipedia.
Atrocious punctuation was almost laughable.
Her caustic posts were anything but affable.
She had warnings all the time by those who knew.
She never verified facts - not a great thing to do. 
People were consistently threatening to...

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before life begins
we accrue fictional sins
so guilt always wins
lest any deem themselves free
to alter reality

dollars and distance
do not measure existence
despite persistence
constant debt all but assured
within this credit card world

is living better
starting off as a debtor
shame's main abettor
always in the negative
when all else is relative

to death...

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But he is my cousin I insisted 
He would not have done that
He is a great guy I said. 
He is reliable and dependable.
There is no way!

My husband said, "Someone changed the check. It was not me."
I looked at the check. He was right, and...

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