Best Retrieves Poems


Premium Member Shadow Play
...Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical incest projects......

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Categories: retrieves, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member End of the Road
...LOST SOUVENIRS


Your distant gaze flits, nearly bare
Like a mist that smothers the road
Windblown by chill; here, everywhere
A  promise ending as breaths explode 

My heart trick......

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Categories: retrieves, lost, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Steps For Random Acts of Kindness
...Noticing his neighbor’s young child
has laid a ladder against a tree,
determined to rescue a pet kitty stuck up there,
a middle-aged man crosses the street
and offers to help.
He STEPS UP the la......

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Categories: retrieves, life,
Form: Free verse

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Hummingbird Walk
...A trackless wind scatters his mind
leaves fly away where no leaves are.

A hummingbird inside his chest drums,
the evening is escaping down roads
long plowed over with remorseless change.

It ......

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Categories: retrieves, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Jeepney Ride
...Packed like sardines
inside a jeepney*—
Too full,
with a jeepney strike going on.

Rushing, 
mother and child ride along.

Greasy, dirty, malnourished…
The woman holds a can—
a makeshift dru......

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Categories: retrieves, life, people, social, me,
Form: Narrative
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwes Forgotten Children
...New draft Zimbabwe’s 




Tribute Documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children


Mama will be left behind when I die
I’m too sick to survive
My education was put to an end
When papa had no mo......

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Categories: retrieves, death, education, health, hope,
Form: Narrative


My Dog
...My dog is not a manly dog,
she’s my dog just the same
A manly dog rides in a truck
and retrieves the hunted game

My dog, she is a lady dog…
when we got her she was small
A little puff of fluf......

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Categories: retrieves, animal, dog, pets,
Form: Rhyme
90 Years Younger
...As my old eyes search for the setting sun,
My mind is at work,
Mending the million fragmented memories.
The long arm of my mind,
Retrieves the first dusty diary,
from the tallest of shelves.
Now nine......

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Categories: retrieves, lost love, heart, night,
Form:
Flight of Fall
...As I lay one sullen autumn morn
on pearl dew turf with the day unborn
staring at the grey grimacing sky
with the mood and moment not quite high
sepulchral static wherever I looked
when my dreary......

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Categories: retrieves, allegory, death, introspection, life,
Form: Classicism
Hoarfrost
...Again, the snail of time seems frozen: 
White grass surrounded my cauliflower;
Now, naïvely visited by mice, -a dozen,
Come from the huge hoarfrost`s tower.

Furs with the variegated undecided c......

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Categories: retrieves, allegory, education, memory, world,
Form: Carpe Diem
Memory Lane
...Lonely hearts roam in memory lane
Events that are dear to heart pass like links of a chain
A window in the past opens for breeze cool
A sweet fragrance of love perfumes the soul

The awesome ser......

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Categories: retrieves, imagination, loneliness, missing you,
Form: Rhyme
The Moonlight Bell
...Dum -- -- -- Dum -- -- -- Dum -- -- --, the moonlight bell,
Beyond the city noise of cars I overhear the moonlight bell. 

Warm fatherly advice and smell of fresh baked pies,
The sister's hug and......

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Categories: retrieves, nostalgia,
Form: Ghazal
The Chain Letters Road Trip
...
"The Chain Letters Road Trip" 

Freedom Fall 8 
removed 
her Ray Bans

The Light 
was blinding 
on the other side

dark tunnels 
lead to highways 
unrealised 

goi......

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Categories: retrieves, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Hope - Part One
...for you, m
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pale horse led by shrouded spectre through foggy thicket
dark days behind them illuminated by soaring ember skies
saturated soil slick under their feet impeding their a......

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Categories: retrieves, anger, devotion, hope, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bubbling Over
...Aerial dribs and drabs, a sidewalk canvas
As a toddler chases bubbles her mother blows
       from confectionary soap,
Fluttering fluidity in spring air

Child's laugh, a mosaic of innocence, di......

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Categories: retrieves, child, childhood, encouraging, family,
Form: Free verse
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