Best Taloned Poems
Inner Lost ChildWe wander all, in feral dreams
of jagged thoughts and cryptic yearns;
a labyrinth of mirrored turns.
Along a ridge of moon stitched seams,
lie melancholic tapestries,
unfolded in an abstract frieze.
Subconscious angst weaves heart loomed themes
from pain sewn deep, through puerile eyes,
till daybreak’s alabaster guise. ...
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Categories:
taloned, childhood, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
PoliticsPOLITICS
Propriety demands - we do not speak
Of others, either strong – or weak
Lest in the foray of the quest
Insiders, fall from grace, of safety’s nest
Take residence alongside taloned beast
Intent on making you the winner’s feast
Cloned puppets denying there are strings
Surrendering their truth to cell phone...
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Categories:
taloned, leadership, money, political,
Form:
Acrostic
Autumn's Wild RoosterGloaming is wont to quell
the ginger smoke,
expunge the crimson flames
that surround the mill.
Lilac shadows encroach
to cloak the hull's mossy patina.
Autumn's wild rooster,
struts its brash plumage
among fallen shingles and rotted planks
until a black hawk soars,
eclipsing feral zinnias' embers
just as calliope chimes
of a fallen carousel
disappear in...
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Categories:
taloned, autumn, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
NadirSummer's salty doom knocked
ruggedly as I lay on the
sheets of tormented
threats and turmoil.
Jerks at the slightest beep.
Gasps at a faint knock.
Soaked in muddy debts
of frauds. A muscle pull of shame,
death's soulful companion.
The world didn't stop cascading.
I did. My brain froze....
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Categories:
taloned, cry, dark, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Poetry Poem Poets For Kristin Reynolds and Dion BessPain in the prophecy of wings through sultry sky
Orchestrating vision, love, destiny
Emancipating the tongue to tattle tales taloned with grief
Triumphing in truth to tumult another joy
Reel all poets in, glistening on a silver sliver of string
Yearning to for a final travail, immortality on wing.
Please God,...
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Categories:
taloned, art
Form:
Acrostic
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting the present poésie
Rimbaud’s Lettres du Voyant appear
of painful yesterday’s...
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Categories:
taloned, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Pretty Lady
What would you do then pretty lady
Should my passion turn to love
And when the eagle in my heart
Becomes the gentle dove
Do you cage the taloned beast
Before it tears the flesh
Or entwine the white dove
To sing within your breast?
Can you see the heaven
That lives above this...
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Categories:
taloned, heaven, love, lust,
Form:
Quatrain
Robin of the HoodieRobin of the Hoodie
Alas, resides in Sherwood Forest,
one Robin of the Hoodie. He’s lost
amid the greenery, weeping
as sunset nears for underneath
the Hood he hides his deep
and lonely fears. The Hoodie
no protection here amid the
bug filled darkness, nor can
it quell the eerie sounds of
hoodless...
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Categories:
taloned, children, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
At the Wall1
A Vietnam veteran and a mother
Stand shoulder to shoulder
Before it's patriotic domain,
Amazed at the hard stone's ability
To accept the lost with such soft hands.
Their faces, caught in the black granite,
Merge into one.
With a secret map
Etched into the tips of their fingers,
They grope...
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Categories:
taloned, bereavement, death, death of
Form:
Free verse
EaglesStunned I stare from a rocky shore
As eagle architects swoop and soar.
Avian aerobats stretch my mind.
Carving arcs in cerulean air
Building an aerial cathedral
Framing clear high walls across the sky
With headlong three-sixties upside down
Form gothic spandrels toward the ground
Flickering feathers turned them around
Racing sunward as a...
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Categories:
taloned, bird, dream, fish, flying,
Form:
Free verse
PredatorFrantically, I walk on a lane of vile secrets,
past glared dazes from hooded eyes
marking me as obsession’s target where a quest
to nail me taunts my fear : with endless
shrieks echoing , “ I...
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Categories:
taloned, mirror, self,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Trying To Find KrotoFrom Talkeetna by bush plane to a frozen bog
under the white gaze of Denali.
“Snow’ll be too soft to land this afternoon,”
our pilot says. “See you in the morning.”
He points to a wrinkle in the field of snow.
“Kroto Creek.” And then he’s gone.
Check topo...
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Categories:
taloned, adventure
Form:
Free verse
Passion's TrialWhen first the flame, a wayward glance
Is met in kind, as if by chance
A timer starts, till fervor tame
A wayward glance, when first the flame
...
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Categories:
taloned, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Angels of DragonsAngels Of Dragons
You heralded my wing-swept thunder
with garlands annointing the ground.
Sweet petals spiraling upwards
as I stood majestic, towering over
my protected children of Earth....
mankind, it was you.
You greeted me with song, dancing,
feasting of meat I brought when
times were lean for you.
I brought fire to your...
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Categories:
taloned, caregiving,
Form:
Free verse
Antipoem 4 Santo and JohnnyAntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”
(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)
Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes under a blue napkin of sky voices
Lifting tanned bodies aloft...
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Categories:
taloned, memory,
Form:
Free verse