Best Slantwise Poems

By Buffs and shrugs experts revive the dead 
detect means of two worlds how spread
they call the being extraterrestrial living 
looking for water in space with misgiving

Depict art sign's formed by ancient designs 
laid there for centuries among pines 
having textural and deep meaning 
still...

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A spherical fish lenses larger
And smaller with each turn that's swum.

Size defying, the fish upon a plant stand
Towers over a cubically curled cat.

The cat sleeps inside a cardboard box
Among dank fern era smells.

Eye lids arise slantwise
Like through louvers of a shade.

The eyes close once again
As...

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(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)

I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I dry my hair.

A meal,...

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I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I dry my hair.

A meal, like a forced dose, we soak ourselves in wasted, nervous time.

Finally! We arrive at the competition...

Tension...

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