Best Stylized Poems

I have spent,
              a lifetime,
                       being calm___________cool collected---afraid to show...

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I once was important, folks cared about me, 
Keeping me safe in a special bound book.
And in this book I had perfect stylized sheets, 
Folks would gaze, remember and look

At every small detail that they could see, 
Treasuring the moment in time that I was,
Treasuring...

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O.K., let’s see where you are with your math, 
Which areas do we need to work through.
Algebra, space, number, or measurement, 
Which topic do you need to review?

Today, algebra, a fantastically obtuse idea,
Instead of numbers, use letters, counting the ABC’s.
By the end of this tutorial...

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To me, yea, Iris is invisible, 
The scent of yours all pervading, 
Behold your face all-rich, 
When I close my eyes.
Wordsworth's daffodils to me, 
Membrane of the eyes, 
That gives light to me, 
Light that misleads the morn.
You are the genus iris, 
With sword-shaped leaves,...

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placid pond
in the moon's reflection—
kabuki dance

1-13-22

HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be 

Thirteen Syllables or Less Contest 3-29-16
Sponsor Timothy Hicks

*Kabuki, traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner. ... In modern Japanese, the word is...

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When the northern star opens her gauzed veil
On clouds’ ladder, winged pixies arise
Where magic glides like a lucent trail,
A parade I watch with angelic sighs.

Glossy dust bounces on cosmic array
To kindle thrills from a fancy dreamland
As elves gather a rhapsodic play
With choirs stylized by mystical...

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1. Dimple under left eye, apply air brush.
2. Extend her legs, more voluptuous. Add 4 inches from ankle to knee cap.
3. You know...I'm just not feeling the dress. Do we have one of her in that green strapless? 
Men like strapless right?
4. Holy hell! Can...

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Music and your muse

What moves you to write?
What puts your pen in gear?
Your muse you say! Hmmm!

Muse is the root word to
many things like Music
musing, museum, amusing
etc.

So then, what moves your muse?
makes you feel something
is it Music?

Music moves the world in
one way or another

Music makes...

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"Sick Art"



I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys 

I am a ghost
of my former self

ears lent to hear 
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up in the act
of loving unnatural
tendencies kissed 

I whispered into 
those...

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Marching out of the cloaked shires
Of landowners, stockbrokers, 
Hereditary Peers, and ruddy faced 
Squires:
A vast multitude of many varied 
Tribes.
Amassing in the great cities, where,
Inhabiting shadowy chambers, 
Behind nodding sighs and hushed 
Whispers, 
The Masonic Civil Servant plots and
Confides.
Standing vigil above forgotten
Monuments
And bronzed statues, that,...

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It is not like these restaurants in America 
with their sterile atmospheres: slick new furniture,
stylized art, ambient lights, and every angle 
rationalized to the judgment of specialized interests.
It is a restaurant filled with details, 
inviting customers to take in an experience while eating and drinking,...

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Fellow poets, when you write, you put down words, of fact or fiction.
With conscious thought you select letters to make words in diction
Words strung together in rhyme, pearls of wisdom, marking the time
You create the thought, the flow,you're painting pictures as you go.

What would you...

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Shadows pool in an intimate embrace,
as Sunset inks lovers in silhouette.
And dark contours craft a stylized beauty;
a synergy formed before time began.

Twilight's subservient to wishful hearts;
pausing time until it seems to stand still.
And floating blissfully in love's aura;
two lovers swim to the depths of their...

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“Karlsruhe Hbf”

A man wore a bib on the outside of his down jacket
at Weiner Feinbacher.
Struedel doesn’t drip.
Poinsettias from Blumen leaving on the next train,
maybe from the same platform where 
945 Jews departed.
Citizens unwillingly embarked. 
The beginning of the end of their journeys.

Now 500 Euro strollers...

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A living organism accustomed to existing alive…adapted, acclimatized.
Breathing bodies, beautifully behaving as created, before being theorized.
Corporeal creatures controlled by character traits, occasionally compromised.
Divergent life forms delicately merged into a “Web of Life”, perfectly devised.  
Entities experiencing individuality, establishing existence uncompromised,
Frolicking through life; incessantly looking...

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