Best Stiffens Poems

LIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION 


You
must know
I cried yesterday 
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet and sour coated seeds
I grew free standing expressions and then I joined 
them with left over thread to present these...

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The storm that is you thunders
slow and brilliant in my heart,
spliting my beliefs into bliss and blunders
tossing the limbs of my love from finished to start,

The hail sows no hate
temperatures taste extreme,
your fast weather pummels my pride's fate
the howl and moan stiffens my body's fleshy...

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Gray clouds hanging low in the sky
echo my feelings
help me to cry
the pain has been building now for days
the emotions
just won’t go away
These feelings of loneliness and despair
so very empty
like nobody cares
I sit at the window shivering in silence
as the rain falls
and stiffens my defiance
I...

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When When Then Yoga

When
Your downward dog is barking and
Your cat pose is meowing and
Your tree pose is swaying and
Your cow pose is mooing and
Your cobra pose is striking and
Your sphinx pose is speaking and

When 
Your child pose gets naughty and
Your warrior one gets shot and
Your...

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Her tread even lighter than a field mouse,
Her gown more bluer than a cloudless sky;
She stiffens like the cat about to pounce:-
Right now...another wretched soul to die.
Hand as Michelangelo's hand of God;
Outstretched arm pausing momentarily;
And in that dreadful instant some poor sod
Staring back: eyes imploring,...

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As Autumn’s breeze caresses the forest
there is a mellow sadness to her movement,
for fallen leaves beneath my feet 
crumble to flakes of brown, the tears of trees.

Past midnight 
in morning’s quietest hours,
just before the lids flicker from dawn's pale eyes, 
the dew stiffens to icy...

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This is about a man whose name is Jesse
Born In Kansas and raised in Missouri
 Was called to fight for his beloved country
And  assigned to defend an outlying territory

Jesse fought as hard as any American would
For freedom and democracy he did everything he could
For...

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*Silent grave yard*

Calm,dry,stale air
no one comes to visit here
dead and forgotten
________________________
*Earth Core*

Hungry hearts collide
sweet love under a full moon
earths core is spinning
________________________
*Mix Breed*

Fangs break through your flesh
your blood flows into my veins
vamperic embrace
________________________
*Drive by*
 
Stars sprinkle the sky 
the moon shows its full splendor 
I...

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My braces are pinching me and I remove them but really I only want to get closer
The harder grasses prickling our arms but why does she complain so little

The sun beats down and the clagg is to swished away from exposed flesh
Her focus is love...

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Poor Frosty’s carrot had unfroze 
Quite useless for a snowman’s nose
It looked such a sight
Bending to the right
Looks like a limp ‘dong' I suppose

So frosty visited his doc
Said his carrot looked like a limp ‘sock’
It’s gone soft and looks pink 
Kinda looks like a shrimp
Kid’s...

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I can smell it in the air. Almost taste it
Before me lies a solid gray horizon
Dark clouds hastily trip across the sky
Orange streaks peek through rents in their fabric
Storms comin!!!

Anchored near the shore a restless dinghy
Rocks nervously in anticipation
Rolling thunder whispers in the distance
Flickers of...

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THE EYE of I

What is life? What is love?
The eye of I took it in…
The material rolling sweeps highs and lows--valleys cuts, grooves, gullies and gorges eye engorge crevices of porphyry
heat flies from the ravines
places the eye cannot see but the soul can visit-- living...

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When But Then Yoga

When
Your downward dog is barking and
Your cat pose is scratching and
Your tree pose is swaying and
Your cow pose is mooing

But
Your snake pose bites and  
Your sphinx pose speaks and
Your child pose gets mad and
Your warrior one gets shot and
Your warrior two...

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for  my Father


My father is as noiseless as the bird,
Transfixed upon his pirouetting bob,
To angle fish his self-appointed job,
He speaks with silence. It is his every word.

Mirror to him, voiceless and unstirred,
The heron stiffens, ready to make hob
Among the flitting silver swimming mob.
Beaking his...

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Long ago,
when we were all
primordial slime
creeping about
in the grime,
awaiting our
time,
we decided:
poetry must rhyme
 
wars passed,
throats slashed
swords clashed
faces gashed
and smashed
before children aghast
in retaliation
against rhymeless trash.
 
the rhyme preserves a tone
and stiffens a certain bone
in the body of each dusty crone
seated on a stump alone
gurgling a pome.

Now,...

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