Best Striping Poems

Ghost-striped by wild magic, night roams into the night
with a mystique like the darkness of the moon’s shaded face.
A jet silhouette with shadowed rosettes prowls ebon-air’s hue;
liquid-liner-black strides in silent fluidity 
melts night into the night.


Susan Ashley 
April 20, 2019


~Fifth Place ~
Contest: April 2019 Premier...

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The summer air was still, 'neath golden sky
where lively birdsong filled motionless trees
sun shied away while cirrus clouds passed by
air cooled and briefly birthed a subtle breeze.
The scent was fleeting, but I recognised
the petrol fumes mixed with newly mown grass
the present scene replaced before my...

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DINOSAURS

Let me take out my thesaurus
And talk about them stinky dinosaurs

I have my own theory on the Mesozoic Era,
First I'll share my reason on the Continental Drift
Who's to blame for the disconnection of our jagged sierra?
It could've been the Jurassic reptiles that caused the world...

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LEAVING NO MARKS

Water leeches squirm in blood
Next door boy snatching
A grilled chic drum stick
A game of chess
Sitting late hours.

Overnight
Vultures, predators and hyenas
Deadly pandemonium.

Burning torches, crude swords,
Iron rods, explosions in hand
Wiping a commune off.
Cries choked, screams of chastity
Gang rape-
Girl petrified eyes
A blooming bud squashed.

Hunter and the...

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Written by Adebayo Olamide(Aesthete),Prince Joe and Ajibade Abdullah(Pen Talk).
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9th Of January,2017.
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Who would hold my heart,
Now it's reeling off, almost?
Adufe!
My praise queen,
Only in your palms,when drop,
Will it survive the fall.
.
You praise the queen bee,
Her elegance,a perfect beauty,
But wherever you stream,Adufe,
The crown pelts to its hive.
.
Let us...

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Two palm shape a bowl for wound. 

My mouth is a big hole of cry
Ruminates in the dark the sorrow  

My legs flint-stone-
The hammers of night sparked
The cry from my chest 
The sleepers of the graveyard heard it.

This is the hell where heart melted....

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One day and one space bar later an irrational iguana put on a wetsuit and some roller skates and left the house. He met with his friends on the way who were waiting at the shop. They were bug eyed swamp who was a squalid...

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Love pain has no specific moments 
NO certain timing 
It just buzz out pain in happiness 

You trying to push it back
Unstable it bounces back
This feeling wants to be felt 
You throw it back 
It hates to be left unfelt

You turn your back away 
One...

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Her life like a horse
A striping stallion
Breath taking force
Overseen by a falcon

A fickle terrain
And bipolar forecast
Derailing her train
Distorting her past

A thunderous tide
Bellows as it rolls
With enticing eyes
A story unfolds

Gripping the clutch
With her pinky finger 
White candy, her crutch
Soft sugar and stinger

Briskly trotting
A tight rope beneath
Tripping,...

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A song-bird I came
With the morning mist
Like a south-heading crane
Into the gathering forest;

Beside this orange I perched singing
And smelt pure gold
On the surface merely hanging
Across the land.

I bore the straw from Natal
Thru’ my mouth for the nest
In Transkei in Transvaal
Thinking of the cherished rest.

But from...

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Still a child within mentally stuck way
back when something damaging seals
my fate from my past, to young to know 
why my mother had to go but for me it
either sink or swim

There was no choice for me, I had to become
an adult too quickly, and...

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It was night sin
of domesticity. Dyed, I am loading
the white secret of pain
in the hollow of a mayhem.


Till every blunder takes a
downward flight striping the outsized 
image of a kill. His flames are
now singeing the eyebrows of angels.

His  foes have entered the compound.
The black...

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Something trembled the world,
It seems like endless,
horrendous,
But also tremendous:
The Amazon rainforest has burnt into ashes.

Before,
The rainforest was so fascinating,
We all appreciated,
But the tragedy still happened:
The Amazon rainforest has burnt into ashes.

Before,
We foresighted,
We foretold,
But we didn’t have this misfortune in our prediction,
Because greedy humans changed our...

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By dawn's early moonlight 
Visual trance hides divine
In Burrow Whither Falls 
Where strings denial hangs tight  

River’s less than  decay  
Laughter’s final descent  
Striping comfort torn wide 
Through red sector waking 

Puddles fear them coming 
These live’s who burn away ...

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I am a whirlwind of colors
Oranges and turquoises
I dance among tulips
Careful to not tread too proudly on violets

I am a unicorn’s horn
My striping parading through a forest
Showing up the oak trees
I look down on them and laugh

I am a bowl of crisp Lucky Charms
Children are...

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