Best Tersely Poems

In deep slumber madness, she comforts me
Appearing, unencumbered, from the mist
Subconscious suspension our nightly tryst
Erasing my mind of bad memories
She mends and warms my soul...

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This is presented in a series of three sonnets in a collaboration
between Daniel Turner and Lin Lane. 
They are based on the original sonnet of...

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TAP TAP (A Writer's Contemplation)


Tap, tap. I promptly turned to view.
and felt somehow it could be you.
Where have you been, I tersely cried?
... 'Here' just...

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Justice of a beautiful woman is that of a model.
She may just be a Christian whore.
In five inches high hills, she does the Catwalk.
Her asymmetrical...

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This Space for You...

Darling, my darling, how I long to see you so,
Such a long week of papers, pencils and meetings galore,
Prepare yourself for such...

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Beginding


We met in the slumber of the sun
Where the sounds are more than verbs and voices
But still, beyond a few, or two, shines one
The rest...

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My mind lost in thought, I see him from across the room.
The deep ponder I was in ends with a provocative move.
I knew I was...

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Walking merrily about did John J go 
Did fright a come about his usual glow
Scared to walk in dark and muddy rays
Tersely rehearsed in fragile...

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Military boots grip the pavement,
hair in a Sarah Connor ponytail
Got her sunglasses on at midnight,
waiting patiently for the right ride
to stop
And swing open an invitation
to...

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One, a hole, a dot, a singularity 
Two, twin dots of eyes that look back at me
Three, an ellipsis falling short tersely
Four, connect-the-dots to make...

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Helper for heartbreak's dissipation
           Coat of slick paint covers pain
     ...

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Did Determine That Divulging

We Did Determine That when divulging,
What happens when you are indulging;
Had eaten a lot,
That we brought;
For a long time we have been...

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Yes, we do share our dreams,
of course we leave out the inadmissible, 
the dark alcoves and the flying monkeys.

At breakfast I scratch in a notebook,...

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At breakfast I scribble in a notebook
questions like:
why do I feel like a duck-billed platypus
has been nibbling at my brain all night?
The I remember
the billabong,...

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