Best Repainted Poems

I dyed my small world
In the colours of grief
I couldn’t find comfort
But I longed for relief

All my fabric was dark
I was shrouded in black
The weight...

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In my grandpa’s field I stand midst rows of grain
 whose gray-green blades stir softly in the moaning wind.
A night chill permeates my skin.
I look...

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Summer sun minutes are counted

                    ...

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"N/A in Open Poetry 8"
“Nothing gold can stay” Title of short poem by Robert Frost

Once upon a time
       I...

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The roadside implement left without attendant, 
an objective lesson of technology progression. 

Long lacking use, should be rot and rust. 
Yet is anything but, even...

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TULUM

a fortress on the cliffs,
smiles down
at the paradisaical
Riviera Maya.

iguanas, reside in ruins,
overlooking
the Caribbean sea,
sitting pretty
for photographs.

long gone from old world -
sacrifice and fear,
Mayan riches and...

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Funny Kids Contest
Sponsor: Team Poetry Soup

Once there was a funny girl,
She painted all her walls bright pink,
Then one day she woke up,
And the pink turned...

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Starting, 
again and again,
and again and again.

Each start, preceded by a step that was stopped with a monumental screech in mid motion, locking the brakes...

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A new deal was signed
Plantations workers laid down their tools
Freedom songs were sang everywhere
The birth of our liberty emerged


Our heritage we vow to defend
The root...

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The Valentine dress
A shock and surprise full of red and blue
coming from a heart, mine is devoted to
and from a hand I so value as...

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There are some colours
that can never be repainted,
marks that can never be removed
and stains that can never be covered.

Move on!
My past loved one,
don't hold unto...

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Honey carry this

Dad the toilet is overflowing

Can you move the sofa there instead

Does this smell bad

Just three more stores Honey

You can build that easy

Sorry about...

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As just-hitched kids, we drove 
a Model T Ford with a crank 
for the engine, and a running 
board.  My big brother sold us...

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INDIAN    HEAD,    SASKATCHEWAN

Used to live in Indian Head   -  never heard of  it  ?
An...

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Music roves forgotten recess.
Spectrum of colors lack comprehension.
Objects of undeciphered importance appear.
Landscapes with familiar distortions,
Capture dialogue of competing personas.

The decayed buildings of my past,
Meet the...

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