Best Roughness Poems

Here lies Emmett Kermit Lavender
Whose time was summarily cut short
When he insulted his English professor
With an unnecessarily caustic retort 

written April 26, 2022...

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How my mind slips away
My words I can’t convey
My time is delayed
I try to meet myself halfway
The trees around me fall
The sounds not sweet at all
The leaves trickle off
That’s when I takeoff
I leave the scene behind me
I cross the deep sea
As I watch the debris
Fall...

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C-hange
R-oughness
I-nto
S-moothness
S-o
Y-our

C-herished
L-ife
A-ttains
E-ternity

Topic: Birthday of Crissy Clae A. Egenias (May 12) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Texture is nature's and life's universal adornment.
Texture titillates and tantalises the senses,
adorning the smooth, flat and boring
with bumps, context, meaning, dimensions and grip.

See me, hear me, touch me, smell me, taste me -
all get embellished and seasoned with texture.
Texture is the crunch when you taste,
the...

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