Best Ten Words Poems

Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of words dancing round in my head,
carte blanche to use this ten word list,
this is my third attempt, seems a bit...

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Heart beats fast,
         bouquet of red roses.
               I'm in love....

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Solo, like a butterfly, emerging out of its chrysallis  for the very first time
She tip-toed slowly , silently , then ran far far away.
Far from a combination of vomit and slurring speech ,
 from the buzzling sounds of the town , alleys , valleys...

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Ten Words
Dr. James E. Martin
©April 8, 2014

Off to war he went!
Went where he was sent!...

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Among artists, she is something of an anomaly—
Traditional and avant-garde, austere and baroque,
Yet a bona fide artist nonetheless. 
Amid the cacophony of modernism, 
Where iconoclasm gives Carte-blanche 
To jettison all rules and form and coherence—
A kind of fauvist deja-vu in distorted echoes—
She, neither dilettante nor...

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Ten words ten lines 2-Big Surf Competition

After a long ennui of big wave competitions
surfers take to Oahu's North Shore "to go for baroque."
For these bonafide big wave riders hanging ten
is party time, cake frosted with elan and deju vu.
Waves peaking it's face into the eyes...

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Deja Vu; I believe that's what knowing minds call this anomaly. 
Another Baroque tinged ballroom boasting bona fide blue-bloods.
Poorly feigned elan for the singing dilettante causing the cacophony. 
The ennui in the room due, I'm sure, to the
 artistic Carte Blanche given the chirping dud.
It's...

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Memories of Love – Ten Words

Love like a twirling tempest, 
whirled us to an uncharted shore 
of unbridled, sublime, sensuality,
gifting me with moonlit memories 
that would never be forgotten.

How I savored those kisses from your lips… 
milk chocolate lips flavored with the 
lingering tangy taste...

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Florida gardens boast menageries most marvelous—
Vermilion hibiscus nodding in the breathlike breezes
Infused with night-blooming jasmine and selenicereus scents.
Mockingbirds trilling like nightingales in the palm trees,
Twilight fading in the lush and dusky thickets…
Iguanas on perfumed frangipani blooming beneath
The luscious mangoes ripening on the bough;
And all overlain...

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She stares into the misty morning shadow;
a crimson sky just breaking the distant shore. 
Once an endless tempest of doubt she'd grow;
His grace no longer forgotten; her faith He'd restore.

Each yesterday devoid of any compassion. 
Her dreams are filled with tenderness and affection 
but she...

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DEFINING LIFE
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Anomaly... abnormalities that can and... do confound us all...
Avant-garde... new words... alive with meaning prance across the page...
Baroque... words... can they but allude to that amazing style... if at all...
Bona fide... from my pen the truth oft flows... to calm world rage...
Cacophony... words can...

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Grandmother Always Encouraged

As I stood in front of the baroque painting
"Old Woman and a Boy with Candles", by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
instantly trigger a warped déjà vu. 
An ebullient cacophony of absent voices I used to have with my grandmother. 
She would give me carte...

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Apartment perched in a ghetto menagerie of hateful mockingbirds
Safety code bribery has uncaged my anger recluse, 
which now morally infuse me with pellucid fearlessness
Seeing street labor children sniffing nerve-numbing plastic bag criminality
Ill frangipani odor of middle bun dope runner hands,
concocting poisonous fumes of meth and...

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"What's in your French fries?"

"Oh! A gemstone ring?"

"Surprise!!!!"












Theresa Stephens
9th April, 2014
Contest Name: Just Ten Words....

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An agnostic already all assuming about
Antiquated adulating adulterated arrogance.

So who can you describe with words
all beginning with the same letter?

Jim Horn...

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