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Best Tricksters Poems

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Premium Member The Tricksters
Like attracts like, or so they say
solitary, the sentinel stood
brown and brittle, lifeless
Its cracked surface home to many
small unfriendly, burrowing, things
corpse companions...

A raven roosts
in its...

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Categories: tricksters, allegory, animals, caregiving, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Tricksters of a Memory
I love polygons even as they are irregular
Within the tangled space and time
Rich angles become decisive corners 
Tricksters of a memory

It was tender congruency at...

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Categories: tricksters, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Imagism
Tricksters
short pirate braying
one-horned horse falls apart
the tail chases ghosts...

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Categories: tricksters, adventure, childhood, happiness, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Rejection
A reminder of sins,
Jerky de-firiye,
Come, come Islam.
Look, it's running out!
Life balance.
Poetry,
A heartbreaker.

It is not our goal,
Never rhyme.
No more levels?
Pros or cons?
Every second.

Wake up, brothers!
What's with...

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Categories: tricksters, god, islamic,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Whisperings of Guilt
When your mind shuns flattery's lies,
it opens, letting the truth in.
And mutes all the varied voices
of fear secluded deep within.

You know of love only through...

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Categories: tricksters, imagination, introspection, philosophy, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Life and Death Like Old Macbeth
Dandelions, babies crying
walking in the woods,
astronomy, philosophy
chickadees and childhood.

Speckled trout, (a technical knock-out)
strawberries red and sweet,
winter, spring, summer, fall
Butterfinger and little "Twinkie" treats.

Dragon flies, questions...

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Categories: tricksters, adventure, life, uplifting, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hour of All Hallow's Eve
Restless ghostly night,
      whilst full moon hangs bright
         drench in yellow with...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tricksters, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Allhallows - Most Dreaded Night
Hungry black bats pour from a dim dismal cave
flying about under a lucid full moon;
near old chiseled tombstones of each sealed sod grave 
in search...

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Categories: tricksters, children, halloween, holiday,
Form: Rispetto
Dreamer
Call me the dreamer of dreams. 
I am the one that reaches for the highest of heights.
I use the clouds as a helpful step to...

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Categories: tricksters, courage, dedication, inspirational, journey,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Surreal Nature
Surreal Nature
	
	
Rural Oklahoma: Cool autumn night on the front porch, thoughts and opinions about poetry and painting shared with a dear friend over wine and...

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Categories: tricksters, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Hero - Monomyth
(Dedication: For Ann)
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The tale now mints: a hero hears
A call that tints, a choice appears.


It cannot be, this journey quest
To cross the seas, to face...

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Categories: tricksters, devotion, myth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Haunted Holloween
It is the magic held within the darkness, the whispering of the night winds,
Echoing through haunted graveyards, cast are thus ancient spells, illuminated
Beneath the harvest...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tricksters, dark, evil, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Dead Dance
* this is a challenge poem as set out by Silent One

DEAD DANCE
The chatoyant sky shimmered like abalone
As they gathered around the Infinity Stone.
Calling the...

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Categories: tricksters, death, journey, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Angry Immortal
You dont need no friends
all they will do is hurt you
let them all go, why hold them up?
the family are so far behind,
they will never...

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Categories: tricksters, forgiveness, history, imagination, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dark Spirit , You Are Cursed
Dark Spirit , You Are Cursed


O', dark spirit of the late night
Which scare are you now bringing
Eyes gouged out to prevent sight
Or tongues cut to...

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Categories: tricksters, conflict, dark, dream, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs