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Best Supposition Poems

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Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Categories: supposition, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Mask of Labradorite
Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind...

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Categories: supposition, corruption, imagination, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ribs
Political leaders globally surmise our economic stability.
Their mind desires maximization of their capabilities.
They seek power that is not to be.
Do they enmesh via history?
Does it...

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Categories: supposition, america, creation, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I Cooked the Book That Would Not Tap
I Cooked the Book that Would Not Tap
 
A Doomsday, a nightmare gone wrong,
My hand shot with pain and didn’t stop,
Bandages hid the wound I...

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Categories: supposition, analogy, angst, appreciation, atheist,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas 2054
Twas the night before Christmas in 2054
The only sound being robotic mice on the floor
Our digital wish-lists were hung with ultra-precision
above the virtual fireplace in...

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Categories: supposition, celebration, christmas, future,
Form: Rhyme



Make Me a Good Man
Give me a good man
not a smart man.
Make me a thoughtful man
not a politician.

Take me to rich land
not a poor land.
Make me a stronger man
not...

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Categories: supposition, allusion, appreciation, image, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Testing Environment
Such a loud silence
Occasion anxious tapping
Of a pencil or less often a foot
Shifting uncomfortably while squeaking in their desks,
in that too small of a space
barely...

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Categories: supposition, anxiety, math, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Infinity
Infinity's forever,
it's an impossible quest.
Like an endless journey where
eternity gets expressed.

It's alpha and omega,
the beginning and the end.
And so immeasurable
that truth and fantasy blend.

It's an...

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Categories: supposition, imagery, magic, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Across the Way - the Sequel
Another day and the dishes have piled up yet again
So back I end up in front of the window 
I do not glance up, but...

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Categories: supposition, absence, abuse, analogy, angst,
Form: Ballad
The Birth of a Thought
I gave birth to a thought today
A shiny little supposition
It wept about all the possibilities
Endless creativity 
Directionless refractivity
Like protons racing around an atom blaster
My thoughts...

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Categories: supposition, birth, father, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Possibilities
Possibilities

Another gorgeous B. C. day – a walk – no driving
in an age, - consciousness of – that has been arriving.
On this fine day, on...

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Categories: supposition, girl, drug, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mask of Tourmaline
Twice the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Yet again awoken by winter when the third was three in number.

I sense that a silence doth...

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Categories: supposition, anxiety, horror, imagination, mystery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Original Mask of Alabaster
A wince doth lurk wearing which wicked gaze,
Of conniving cast shadows ‘tween my windowpanes.

Gazing through the window’s diaphanous gelid glass, 
I see a flushing fluorescent...

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Categories: supposition, addiction, allusion, confusion, dream,
Form: Couplet
Close Enough To Feel, Although Unreal
Love is false to those like I 
Whimsical enough to dip their feet in such dangerous waters

Confiding our faith in one presumed to hold our...

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© Alex Riker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: supposition, absence, addiction, betrayal, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Each One of Us



“Each One of Us”

A new life born
borne immaculate
in a way, 

that no one 
buried in supposition
need ever explain

the questions 
irrelevant
the motive mute

in the heart 
of...

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Categories: supposition, christmas, i am, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs