Best Reputations Poems

RISKING REPUTATIONS (written in Samantha's invented form, a poetic trinitas)

Lipstick smears,
Pillows stain.
               Lack of forethought?
Surprising tears –
A cleansing rain.
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REPUTATIONS

obscurity
  formal
noble&
compelling
  sensitive
impression
  a readily &
deepening
  spirituality

a disquieting
connections &
 dimensions of
 meaning
in depictions
  so consummate
enhance
 illusion

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique...

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A haunting house voice
 remained in her mind,
and the spirit cries
 echoed in silence,
as the child dies.
Her soul sits in the dark,
poetic reflections, and sentiments
seem to slowly disappear,
along with it, the suffering and the fear,
her father losing faith in God,
as he paced slowly in the...

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Reputations are fickle things,
Fragile things,
Valuable things,
Sometimes cursed things,
Sometimes blessed things,
Hungry things,
Misunderstood things,
Life giving things,
Life taking things,
Not always friendly things,
Not for the faint-hearted things,
That always come with strings,
That can turn us into out-of-control things,
When reputations are the only things that matter, things.





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REPUTATIONS

reputed
&
most moving
devotion
most
 magnificent
  housed
in a  frame
  to be seen
in another
sensibility

representitive
 aspects
of  asceticism
a moment
of instant
canticles
 elements
of nature
none
can escape

a nervous
commitment
 to  ruffling
 a few feathers

a life changed...

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