Best Supplants Poems

Under 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity

A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric

In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...

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You indicated I don’t listen.
I respectfully disagree.
I hear you.
I just don’t like what you have to say.
Pretending to ignore you takes tremendous effort.
Quick to dismiss
that...

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FRAGILE HEARTS DOUBLE ACROSTIC


F inally you appeared, right out of the blue
R andom chance that I would ever meet you
A fter all that we've been...

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A pulchritudinous creature
Oblivious to the turmoil 
Stirred in a young mans chest
Tamed the beast in me 
Sublimating me
From my true desires
Quelling the fires
Redirecting my passions
Reemploying...

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From time to time the mould gets broken,
And shatters into unspoken pieces.  Chaos,
The lack of form, supplants the frozen norm.
Relief is sweet, like breathing...

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When just a child the poet's mom said "Son
Throughout your life beware the sin of pride
Remember this when every day is done
What counts the most...

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I amble along paths
rutted deeply
In the life
that I have fashioned.

All pine for sunny days
of warmth and hope, but now
an aura tinged with fugue supplants 
and...

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Everybody still has bits and pieces that make us human, traits from a time before we became convoluted replicas unwittingly tracing our steps to the...

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The body divided
In undeclared war
Where personal image
Supplants what life’s for

A truth that’s misleading
But not quite a lie
Controlling direction
Avoid the word “Why”

Lofty high ladders
That lead to...

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You can knock on every door but you can't get in,
you can run in races but you're not allowed to win,
you think you're cured ,but...

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I
Back home, I walk watering plants
Look to the hills, lifted up by His Hand
Busy painting another make-believe land
The hills, whence Help all evil supplants...

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The? ?healing? ?silence?

?Prompt from 
Mid-american Tragedy. Denise Levertov

The? ?breeze? ?supplants? ?my? ?noisy? ?thoughts? ?with? ?empty? ?susurration.? 
Softly? ?lapping? ?waves? ?mark? ?passing? ?time.? ?
My? ?seclusion? ?is?...

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Steel that fills the skies,
Steel that supplants the mighty ocean
Steel casted hearts of bravery...
These are our guardians,
Our navy, which sets a new standard,
Our Air-Forces,
That can...

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Daylight dwindles as darkness descends and 
night awakes, and clouds of hungry bats take 
flight hunting moths fluttering in the pale
moonlight until Dawn ushers in...

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WOMAN I
"The woman is delicate from the egg, and an idea that does not freeze.
It is a yellow rose that has and knows the right...

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