Best Thornton Poems

WORLD OF GREY –Collaboration with Serena Storm
"Its cold today, 
My world is grey. 
I'm Being tortured by the echos 
Of the words I don't say...

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        Emily: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
     ...

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Why do I love this awesome team
A logo is a start
What cooler than a fighting shark
The black, orange, blue, and white

The players are something to...

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Her small angelic face ...

Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into...

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My only friend is pain 
existing in shadow of a fear 
fear of insignificance 
hurting and attacked 
lying in defense 
works are in motion ;...

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Sly snake what a rakish slither
belly walker cunning talker
Persuade the moon to buy the sky
Charging moonbeams by the hour


**I think this is the first one...

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* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her...

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Spy vs. Poet - pen trickery

(A collaborative poem by Serena Storm and Joel Thornton)


Dissimulating cloak – an apocryphal script 
Ah, I see "I" the spy...

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Saw you coming; 
          That look of want in your eyes. 
You and your ‘flock' of...

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Invictive
Licentious Offense   -  Vilify Emotions
Yielded Offer Unveiled 
Becoming Ugly Theatrics
In Contentious Another New Terrible
Humorous Accusation -  Violent Explosion!
Yelling out!  -...

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SEESPEAKNORHEAR
Sew my eyes shut
So my tears will dry
Cob webs and scars down our arms
Gouge out my eyes
So I can’t see you with him
My winter sky...

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THESACK

Hell is where the heart is
Or used to be,
Or never was.
Torrent Dead Sea.
Splinter life from me
Separate, who says we are free?

One in the bush
two in...

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We all only see
What we choose to see
Insecurity
Dumb morality
Numb pathology

Devil inside
Entrust or die
Conquer divide
What truths they hide

Death at door
For now or
Forever

I splice
Sever

Purge.


Written Nov.22nd 2014 By...

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"ARSON TO ASH"
By J.R. Thornton
 

Dealers of deceit 
          Lead lives of tragic defeat 
Bloody knives...

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HER SINKING SILENCE

It feels like sinking.
This stirring, unrequited thinking.
This love. This connecting 
Emotive quantum linking
It pains.
You in obduracy
Me alone, pathetically
In pain.
Again.
We could be 
So happy.
Instead
We’re...

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