Best Surpassingly Poems
I Once Was the Ruler of RomeI was placed by my peers as a Consul of Rome,
Teeming city it was that I'd always called home.
My fair wife was a slave I'd seen fit to set free,
But she chose to instead make a husband of me.
The gods seemed to smile upon us...
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Categories:
surpassingly, best friend, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Quatrain
My Grandmother's Ruby RingDid not filter
down to me
who wanted it. I
was not as great a beauty
as my mother, one
of 8 my grandmother
birthed: 2 daughters
made the cut.
My mother in sepia
light of an old
photograph is seated
at the piano, head
bent over sheet music
as if about to...
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Categories:
surpassingly, desire,
Form:
Blank verse
Measuring a Corn FieldThe whole world I can measure in this cornfield.
Why would I need
to go to Indiana or Pennsylvania
or Katmandu?
Ohio is right here, and the rattling gold of the corn is here.
Yes Indiana has its rustic temples also ~
as does Kentucky and Idaho,
all over the world the...
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Categories:
surpassingly, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
slaying dragonsSlaying dragons
I sat in my den, trying to compose a poem
which is not easy for a pretender
a scream from the living room, she heard
something in the kitchen and sent me there
to slay the dragon
I found a tiny mouse, knocking over
an empty plastic bottle of water
I picked...
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Categories:
surpassingly, adventure, anti bullying, color,
Form:
Blank verse