Best Sibilant Poems

'S' is a Sibilant
So is the letter 'Z'
Sans one of my front teeth
Sounds a tad more like 'Zhee'
'Say' and 'See' ~ 'Thay' and 'Thee'
'Stay asleep'...

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Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful...

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Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a...

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Mentors like priests preparing me for holy rite
Institutional slaves to a false trinity
Subduing adventure, exploration and discovery to classroom rigor
Eternal stairway ... moonbeams to the...

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Written: January 07, 2024
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eyes are soul gates    ...

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Oblivious of the time and the few swimmers around me,
I lay sprawled on the soft sand underneath a colored umbrella,
Enjoying the gentle peace and calm...

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"Sanskrit"



Tears like pearls of wisdom
crystal diamonds slip salty cool
hour glass down cheeks to lips

purse of gold unzipped 
forms exposed vowels and consonants
in the hostage pool

forming...

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"Taken, Possessed"



I’d kiss those scars
Trace them with my warm breath
All the way up both paths
To where King Stamen stands erect and
Star tipped towards my shining...

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O to be there again
Little boys dancing for calypso dimes
And the US marines, angelic in white
White rum frolicking in the chapel of their brain
Laughing like...

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At horizon’s crest a faint light arcs
its thin line widens from across the sea
she flutters maiden wings from her nest
on a rocky crag near a...

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Do you see the frame or the cage?
Step beyond and into this: a rare and colourful bliss,
island of calm in an ocean of rage...
Yesterday, the...

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thoughts lick at my consciousness 
distracting me from the warm embrace
of the colour pallet unfolding
I stare with myopic eyes at the kaleidoscope
endeavouring to discern the...

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Written: November 09, 2023
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An allegedly assured affix
distracted...

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And how did things go with you, enquired the owl, of Dumpty.? Well he replied I travelled
 quite a time and saw a few things...

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There is music in her hands;
The graceful gestures of a different time,
Courtly manners and a black lace fan...
A hundred shaded meanings
In my daughter's eyes...
Mysterious, sibilant...

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