Best Ruses Poems
Bougainvillea
...Lovely blossoms of bougainvillea
Under a moonlight serenade
Ostensibly I contemplate the root
Of the affinity drawing me to you
Abiding fighter and bounteous lover
Rendering your essence freely......
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Categories:
ruses, introspection, longing, love, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Cymbric Vale
...I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts of the......
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Categories:
ruses, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Flood
...Waters rise, engulf the land and other ruses
we devise to block their flow, to stem the tides.
Anxious, we are left to ride the waves
on fragile barques bereft of sails.
Such flimsy arks (mere ba......
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Categories:
ruses, allegory, angst, death, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Citadel Heart
...I am just a beating heart
red from the start and damned with a dream
a spiking scream upon the Hope and Hell seam,
the world passes through me, revealing suffering and the heavenly,
I make a scen......
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Categories:
ruses, america, character, courage, desire,
Form:
Epic
Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
...Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133
(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the......
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Categories:
ruses, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form:
Epigram
Irreverent Hotheaded Grinch
...(Any resemblance between said title,
as told tummy by ya finch,
and commander in chief,...
not accidental, nor a cinch
buttock hum posed on behalf
of these bottom ming out
fifty states, plus ......
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Categories:
ruses, age, allegory, allusion, america,
Form:
Free verse
Epic Pursuits
...Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung
Where minds in thrall by minstrels
Were held
With tales revealing
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and shame.
Who does not mar......
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Categories:
ruses,
Form:
Free verse
Weeping For Butterflies
...I stood and stared at vivid things
Yellows, white, and neon blues,
From tiny ones, with tiny wings
To graceful giants, in lustrous hues.
There were dandies garbed in polka dots
Others bore all......
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Categories:
ruses, butterfly, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Love and Hate
...LOVE is raw
Really raw
HATE is raw
Really raw
Both with four letters
Bind and break
Through opposing tunnels…
What you love you can hate
What you hate, love
Love is white
Hate is dark,
O......
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Categories:
ruses, allusion, art, color, dark,
Form:
Lyric
When It Is Winter
...When It Is Winter
Whence from shine the seasons to whom and to where
High on snow peaked mountains sits the Buddha under a fir tree
Exalted warm in the glow of change and stillness he mediat......
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Categories:
ruses, seasons,
Form:
Acrostic
Don'T Want To See It Ruined
...9/14/17
Televisions getting muted
Signals getting lost or boosted
Meanwhile people hooted
Brooded and continually feuded
Was not one to make my drinks diluted
Made me snooze quick or fe......
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Categories:
ruses, dark, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xl
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XL
IF you pull a long Quixotic face
At your own mirror image en face at play
Your Right from Left your Anti-Self confuse
Myriad selves your chained Parallel Lives p......
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Categories:
ruses, conflict, feelings, games, heart,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Stone Age Brains
...Our stone-age brains are single-minded:
we seek to hurl our genes into the future.
Display your fitness, man, and ride the wave
of giddy, girly admiration!
The muscles, music, ......
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Categories:
ruses, life, love,
Form:
Lyric
A True Politician
...A TRUE POLITICIAN
By
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Ran into a old friend the other day
He seemed despondent looked rather gray
How’s the f......
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Categories:
ruses, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Fear Abounds: Echo Poem 6-Th
...Poet's Notes:
My poet's notes must precede the next Echo Poem as well because the poet
has not given me permission to publish her poems on my site. I can, of course,
reference her poems without res......
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Categories:
ruses, fear, love,
Form:
Rhyme