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Best Seminal Poems

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Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: seminal, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member For Straight White Boys Only
Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the...

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Categories: seminal, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Rebel No Anima No Animus
Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

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Categories: seminal, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
Rest Within



Exhausted, I fell 
into the orbit of you
Lonely voyage ... drifting
Spent all my fuel
searching in the wrong quadrant
for the perfect star
A trail of  cosmic...

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Categories: seminal, love, romantic, space, star,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Human Adventure
The birth of a kid is just an adventure
Which has its start about nine months before 
After an instant of joy or of  venture,

When...

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Categories: seminal, adventure, birth, life,
Form: Terza Rima



Vice Versas Impasse
Embarking upon another vigilant journey, as ever searching these

Sinuous corridores in sublime; a maxims inverted souvenir; effusions

Waterfalls of wisdom to contest this, their mortuaries enigma....

Craven...

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Categories: seminal, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Poemdog Politics
We are all aware of the season
Politicians give us good reason
To be happy we still have choices
And bark in our hunting dog voices
This year is...

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Categories: seminal, funny, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Oxygen With You Though I Find Not the Words
music
music
music

silence-knot
silence-knot
silence-knot

thread-channel-wave
thread-channel-wave
thread-channel-wave

sea sea and sea and mouthful  and drowning
and salt in the algae
and brilliant and resplendent mist
and salty tears
in each rotation towards oxygen
and salted water...

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Categories: seminal, lovesea, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yea Baby On a Universal Scalerole and On Its Entity, U Know the Rest
Hi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets, 
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me...

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Categories: seminal, betrayal, corruption, education, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage -...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seminal, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Original Freedoms of Intent
Do you see yourself as more Republican
or leaning more Democrat?

Oh my,
I'm a card-carrying Republican.
Came from a long patriarchal line
of red-blooded Republicans.

What makes you a Republican?
What...

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Categories: seminal, earth, freedom, games, garden,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Political Transactions
Currency reifies values.
Cash represents value.
Capital iconically,
and capitalism idolatrously,
removes humanity
from Earth's gifting cooperative nature
as reciprocating nurture.

Value,
like organic interdependent nature,
does not grow by hoarding its icons,
but increases...

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Categories: seminal, beauty, blessing, community, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Erotica - January 2nd, 2017
this culinary humble verboten pie eating older mwm 
   in sore want of coital aid
with no intent to rile nor up braid
certainly not...

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Categories: seminal, adventure, age, desire, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Embryo
You who sexless heard the pounding of the sex
     nerves    conditioned to the tune
    ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seminal, life, dream, dream,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Sage Aaga of a Home On a Hill
Sage Saga Of A Home On A Hill 

Having drank from the sun at meridian,
The moon drunk with the light 
Of reflection, always dissipated dreaded...

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Categories: seminal, allegory, analogy, anniversary, black
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs