Best Settles Poems

Pheromones’ anguish, settle for censored compromises

Windows layered across beckoned cathedrals
Shattered by chipped stones of the hypocrite

Wanton hearts scramble to restore weakest links
To a forged importance

Vacuumed tears towards a leader-less Sun

Yet, these incipient bonds
Will
NOT
BREAK

For it was today
Where cognitive dissonance fell unto a rejected, abstract morrow

As disarrayed...

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Oh why oh why don't you clean your room
I wish I had heeded my mother’s words
For I’m sure many a mother has said this to their child
But fate intervened and the dust still hasn’t settled -
In fact I’ve not spoken to my mother for over...

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Dust settles 

Vibrations loosen
the dust on my piano,
releasing tiny particles
into a rectangle sunbeam
dancing about the glass,
as I play compositions
on freeform keys,
fingered imagination
frantically moving
levers in never before
heard melodies
with a locked
sustain pedal
holding each note
to gradually evanesce
into the silence
awaiting your return
as the dust
once again
settles


3/22/17
For the "Dust" poetry contest
Sponsored...

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 The solar lights glow pink and white
as twilight settles in.
Pink and mauve, the darkening sky,
nature's painting does begin.

Late evening the visitors arrive
to dine on berries and leaves.
Two fawns and their mother standing close
looking guilty as three theives.

A summer evening such as this
is true beauty...

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dragonfly settles
cattails grow with feet in pond
campfire smoke drifts by



Barbara Gorelick
Nature Haiku contest hosted by Constance...

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Love broken down to the finest points, 
                                     ...

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the sun is erased

   behind a cloud of despair-

     days froze to silence

       dust stung eyes of the earth, flags

           escaped their closets......

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The forest settles into the night
But bright flashes disturb the pitch.
Haunting music dances like a sprite,
And pounding feet bewitch.

Bright flashes disturb the pitch,
The flickering flame casting shadows
And pounding feet bewitch
On the road to El Dorado.

The flickering flame casting shadows,
Spirits rise to cause havoc tonight
On the...

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Peering through her doorway
from the outside, looking in
I see stacks upon stacks 
of newspapers, through the 
darkened corridors
of her dimly lit home.
And the Dust Settles.

Hazy sunlight filters behind
her, and in between 
the shadows of her face
She looks embarrassed.
Having been caught in the act 
she is...

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See in south africa, we  are 
diverse like very tree branches 
we oh so admire.
You have your different races 
and in them people divide 
themselves
Through status , language, 
religion and money. But the 
greatest gap is through black 
communities, which I am a part...

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I'm tying my wrists across the way he used to kiss me, back to bedposts and marking bruises


that resemble


February's


hands....


He bites his nails and PACES


left foot right and cry through telephone lines that


bite me...


He's terrified of losing me, of forgetting how I rested my lips upon...

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it wasn't a song of forever
it was just for a little while
I recognized the strumming
but not the lyrics to the song
you may not like the comments
but I've never steered you wrong

ya need a place with some elbow space
an altitude higher than this
where the breeze wafts...

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The composer asked the Zen Master:
“I would like to write a Zen song
But I don’t know where to begin”
The Zen Master replied:
“I meditate all day long
But I never know where to begin”

President Obama’s wife asked the Zen Master:
“Since my husband became President
He has changed
I don’t...

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Your love is like a whirlwind – empty in the center and just as shortly lived
You tried to seduce me with your horn -but I was never a fan of bad jazz
 Impress me with your fancy sports car- but you can’t afford the payments
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Once winter comes
  it settles in
Hugs the ground
  a second skin

Thick blanket of snow
  uncovered 'til Spring
Puddles iced over
  biting wind on the wing

Chilled to the bone
  we head wearily home
A crackling fire indoors
  ~ Autumn's no more...

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