Best Segmented Poems

I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.

Rose acclaim...

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Cry Mama! Cry! 

Let your tears clense this barren land.
Let them wash the depravity envaded

Taste the honey and see  the blood full of  sorrow. 
Painting...

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Oh translucent the body takes it's ovoid shape,  
An amalgam of life from inside it's bloated state, 
Pro choice and glistening,
latching in a confined...

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When And Why

Concepts of right and wrong
White and black without the shades of grey
Where did those ideas come from?
Whose warped mind divided the world into...

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Oh no! Train again!

Perched upon parallels of steel,
You roll your way on heavy wheels.
Thundering through town
With a rhythmic rattle and clickity-clack.
Your deep throat rumbles diesel...

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Caterpillar
Segmented, Colorful
Crawling, Nibbling, Hiding
Larva, Cocoon, Wings, Freedom
Fluttering, Landing, Pollinating
Pristine, Delicate
Butterfly



By: Greg Stanley
For Brian’s “Sixes and Sevens” Contest...

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Friends , while reading the History of the Incas , I came across the wonderous story of their 
mail runners , the 'chasquis' ! Kindly...

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Sun Shines On The Righteous

93,000,000 miles from the earth,                ...

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The Horn of Africa is where I am from.
I am just a simple woman with her children.
Lord God is our seeker and natural disaster will...

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Running cracks of lead flaked paint, spiders across the front door like a grandfather's
forehead. 
Its hinges squeal from years of inattention and forgotten maintenance
Floor boards...

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Satsuma, were you Man's first attempt at cloning,
neither orange nor tangerine,
misshapen orange, misspelt tanggerine
as you left the Japanese test tube,
ends flattened through lack of genes,
did...

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I cast a line on pond to fish.
My lure plops,
and triggers circles to radiate out
as rings of ripples emanating
from the surface deformed, disfigured
by weighted lure...

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Tardigrades aka Water Bears, Moss Piglets

Before T-Rex appeared and the Dodo bird disappeared,
Leading to modern-day scientific knowledge increasement,
Creatures of infinitesimal size called ‘Tardigrades’ endure,
Were and...

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SEAHORSES

We ride ocean currents
We are small marine fish
With segmented bony armor 
Such an upright posture, swish
A curled prehensile tail, a tubular snout 
A head and...

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The image of morning mapping from the four cardinal points at the center of 
busy pedestrians running ups and down to the bottom of their...

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