Best Summarizing Poems

So it was that the night transcended peacefully over my head
Taking me through thick clouds,landing me upon parched land
Spilling  tranquil moments into daylight complexity.
So it was that I found myself among a crowd of unfamiliar people
People who I have perhaps seen in the city...

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Alfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,

Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!

Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid conversations.

Dandified Darius decided daring dialogue
Dangerously divisive, declined discourse,
Deliberately discrediting dainty...

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As we walk outside the 
  city opens its' arms to us 
A friendly crossing guard 
     signals to cross the
intersection safely 
    At the bus stop a woman 
holds her son's hand
   As I...

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The pseudo alacrity that he is callow,
Lacking emotions, maturity shallow,
Ignorance ammassed, adulthood fallow,
When summarizing vices, all but hallow!

Writing about the footprints of Marriage,
The opposite sexes' ultimate courage,
Bestowed hatred, ransacked heritage,
Frankness kicked for a conventional adage!

Writing boldly about the bold profession,
Of the vexed fair sex, the...

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It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.

Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death of ego identity,
giving way voluntarily, or not,
to Earth's regenerative potential, or not.

Let's call this ecoconsciousness of light

As we mature,
we ascend...

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Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority 
Sometimes summarizing situations so subtilely*, 
Suddenly somnambulistic, she slips silently
Sensing some sarcastic silliness, soon senility. 

*alternate, archaic spelling for “subtly.”

SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written June 28, 2022
For "Begin With a Letter" poetry contest
sponsored by Angela Tune...

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Mothers have come
from throughout Earth
to bury our post-Trumpian dead.
Bringing both gifts and lamentations
as each finds appropriate
for healing
what cannot be stanched
and scabbed.

As gathering 
we choose who will speak among us,
for this Earth eulogy.

At last our voices conjoin as bilateral one,
speaking back through history
and forth toward fading...

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Begin at the beginning is a good place to start
It makes this poem less tart 
sliding from oozed cocoon box
the lions have dens, the holes for fox 
screaming is the first noise issued 
followed by the orchestra, snap of tissued 
help, first comfort, live source...

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When potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living 
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,

Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
synagogues,
mosques,
green post-millennial sanctuaries,
Gaian ecofeminist fire-circles
gathered their members and neighboring allies,
republican nationalists,
green democrats,
ecosystemic libertarian zeroists,

To discuss and discern
which potential Presidential
and Vice-Presidential candidates to nominate
for next year's Master Facilitator
and EcoFeminist WiseElder duo
for local...

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Some things and projects are started but never finished.
Some other things were never intended for you to finish.
I knew a lady who told my wife and me about a book she was
writing. The entire plot, plan, and purpose were awesome.
She passed on before finishing the...

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Life gives every day 
New page to write a story
Leaving behind past
Summarizing memories
Beginning an episode













Example For Second Chance Poetry Contest
8-31-2016...

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my foundation was flooded
armour broken
but soul refused to give up

I'm wearing this soul like beggar his worn out shoes
Would you love me?

they took my hands
they took my legs
my face is stolen

I won't do anything like other kids do
Why would you love me?

summarizing the silence
have to...

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Whether literal or proverbial,
If you are looking for the devil;
Although I can't imagine why you
would want to. But if for any reason
you may desire to seek an audience with him,
there is a place where you are likely to find him.
I do not think or suppose...

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Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...

I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviated.

Yours truly and the missus
personal living space
otherwise known as Unit B44
encroached, obtruded, and violated
predicated upon fruit fly infestation
justifying purported request for entry
into our one bedroom apartment.

Anticipatory...

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Intrigued about cremation,
I sought GOOGLE to assuage curiosity
significant questions answered
clicking the following website
https://www.funeralwise.com/plan/
cremation/cremation-process/

though summarizing article
some oven death defying act,
yet summarization satisfactorily completed,
thus herewith briefly describes
kickstarting, mystifying, pulverizing...
tantalizing, yielding, enterprising, lasting,

yelping, holding, surviving dearly departed
1. deceased identified
2. official cremation authorized
affiliated with deceased
3. lifeless body prepared
4. medical...

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