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Best Roundly Poems

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Premium Member It's Hard To Grow Up White
Of this, I've always wanted to write
   How hard it is to grow up white
The very idea makes people uptight
   Enough...

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Categories: roundly, change, color, satire,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Sweet Abuse of Our Privacy
Just half a meter away is this semi-covered female
so fertile for a score of trees to grow on
smooth and soft, curvy and oily
a rich landscape...

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Categories: roundly, emotions, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Her Round Light
Her Round Light

Why do lovers write
of moon,
of sun,
of stars?
Or fireflies 
kept in jars?

Is a woman comparable 
with light?
Can she,
will she
Illuminate 
the night?
Can grace,
can beauty,
be combined...

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Categories: roundly, blessing, heaven, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Elephants - Two Limericks
1.
An irascibelephant whom no-one could trust
Had a whim to run amok, or bust!
Though roundly condemned by his peers as a skunk,
From interception they’d cowardly shrunk,
Saying...

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Categories: roundly, animal, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live,...

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Categories: roundly, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



My Daughter's Carrot.
I am sorry,
I am very sorry,
This is for my daughter
I mean my young, beautiful pet.

That was it, the voice of my friend
Who now prides himself
Of...

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Categories: roundly, adventure, friendship, funny, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind Whispering
Mentors with the BeeTrees

From NorthWinds
come darkening winter
as newborn discontent
waiting to spring forth.

From SouthWinds
come summer's diastasis
climax of full-born wisdom,
contentment for and from all four directions
spread across...

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Categories: roundly, happiness, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Co-Redeemer Vocations Needed
Naturally regenerative
living systems,
like Earth
optimize global ecological opportunities
as co-redemptive economies
of loving solidarity relationships
expressing mutual not-negative subsidiarity,
within a web of interdependent Win-Win default networks.

If we are born...

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Categories: roundly, desire, destiny, environment, love,
Form: Political Verse
Duty and Humanity
Humanity has no support to duty
Both contrary in dealing and punctuality:
Non-the-less deny each claims still their validity
Former needs emotional skip where later regularity!

Humanity is a...

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Categories: roundly, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Pride and Wonder
I told the nun in charge
of Religious Education
If asked about sexual orientation
I will say
I'm gay.

I want to teach
deep listening learning
not how not to lie.

She wonders...

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Categories: roundly, anti bullying, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
I Am Out of Breath
(In the light of humanity- Oh,
I’m out of breath, I feel suffocated
I cannot breathe, though no Cov-19 infects me
Yes, truly I cannot breathe now

On this...

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Categories: roundly, humanity, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Fire Sparks
now close your eyes and see afar
the leveled horizon of the raconteur
who wields a power to conjure up
past daily drudge and interrupt

the mind to spark...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roundly, adventure, imagination, people, senses,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Slave Auctions, Alive and Well In a North Carolina School
A K-8 school, J.S. Waters, was roundly chastised today
  Its students held a 'mock' slave auction
This happened in March, in North Carolina, in the...

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Categories: roundly, abuse, horror, how i
Form: Free verse
Dia-Gnosis
It’s ironic how those touting tolerance
So singularly lack the trait they tout—
Can a want of self-awareness account for it?
Appeals to reason roundly fail.
Indeed they seem...

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Categories: roundly, change, internet, prejudice, relationship,
Form: Free verse
My Journey
We come
Those of us who make it through
That tenuous canal
Fraught with more peril
Than ever before
Compliments of those
Who deem us
Mere jetsam
To be jettisoned
For any whim
In any...

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© Ben Burton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roundly, abortion, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs