Best Turned Poems

No one followed her as she ran away
fleeing from the altar on her wedding day

She’d been jilted by Jed her handsome groom
so locked herself away in an unused attic room

The bride’s father went after Jed with a gun
you should have seen the coward run!

The desperate...

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In the deepest of sad emotions
My mind as been turned off
Exiting off the highway of life
The turn off of all time
As I rot in  Ward J
Insane and sublime
The bars on the windows speak
The bartender sneaks in a wee piss
My mind flies away in the...

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In the deepest of emotions
A desire to please
Be loved
Caressing tears like the wind
Kissing dreams in creamy lace
Carnal is the heart of seduction
Insane and sublime
Holding both body and soul
To my beating heart
No one shall see my weeping face
Our love was eternal
As you died in my arms...

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A Ghazal, rhyming the first line of each couplet, beginning with the 2nd.

I stand before you to beg and plead, but you turn away.
Your pride refuses to let you concede. You turn away. 

You continue to pretend that everything is alright.
I can't give you the...

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Young and naive from a distance her heart leaped to its highest peak
On his terrace he'd sit lips utter words if the pages could speak
Her eyes showed ruby red as held flooding tears, so very weak 
Quiet and steady she kept silent cries to touch...

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Upside down rainbows 
would be what my smiles are
right now...

as colorful and as bright,
just seeing these
beautiful reminders
of hope

two rainbows from the 
rainbow nation
from one
bright and sunny friend
and her niece

how very fitting
and awesome...

gray day
turned 
upside down :D




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**Thank You, Wilma for these wonderful pics ^_^
super smiling right...

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"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?"
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land.

Who tries to grow out of this cold.
Unfolding wings from nothing,
  nurtured with meager protection,
    nourished with watery milk.
    ...

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You crush to dust, my walls to see, the measure of my cold ennui,

      Though I, a dilettante supreme, am bearing brash, a barren scheme -

Consign my love for HER, to you, so sweet you'll swear it's deja vu ...

...

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A silver shawl hangs heavy over the mountain 
sky grey clouds shooting gun barrel smoke hiding sunlight 

Looking out towards the ocean dreaming in wild north Atlantic waves
tides turn a little lamb suffering in the spring crouched cold 

We all see visions of injustices flash...

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I wish I knew how cold summer would be, 
maybe I’d wear long leggings in the pool-
I’d swim with my mittens casually, 
and most likely look like a chilly fool.

Cuz’ winter turned into summer in June, 
kids went sledding in the lavender field-
The snow melted...

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Cold and sodden
The rain fell heavy in the night
As if his sins were known to the sky gods
And, in mercy, sought to wash them off his spirit

He knelt down by the old Cheyenne chief
Eyes softly lit by the kerosene lantern he held
"Our crimes against your...

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XCIII

A wretched bond which all my life had borne
My sin I love and own, alas owns me
Deceitful heart that love these chains and thorns
Unsacred ties that binds, how may I flee?

Then suddenly at dawn my dungeon breaks
Fresh wounds I see on pierced hands stretched down
From...

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There are many painful pitfalls to happiness,
and no one is immune to misery's tragic tune.
We cry in the night like a wolf baying at the moon,
sullen, soulful songs of heartbreak and despair,
drifting upon air. Of those memories; beware.

My emotions may seem as dormant as a...

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The professor turned to me
       What is infinity?

     ‘Neither the stars in the sky
       nor the sand next the sea’
         thought...

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A frequent favor is soon a debt:
It makes cupped hands close into fists.
Now that my hands are empty,
I see your breast heave with cold dark clouds—
A sure sign of the storm to come.
A pool of slime gathers in your eyes 
That just yesterday were wide...

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