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Best Unctuous Poems

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Churchyard At Midnight
Twas darkness upon the quietly residing heath...
And deathly was the sullen red sandstone tower...
Standing gloomily inside the masons dry-stone walls
Amidst toppling granite slabs and the...

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Categories: unctuous, environment,
Form: Rhyme



Admiration
Into her eyes I enter, free of unctuous pretense, my daughter, so I can feel it all as she....

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Categories: unctuous, childhood, daughter, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Verity and Vanity
Written: September 15, 2023
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In a cosmic world where marvels dwell,
There lies a well where truth does swell.
Under the surface of the cultural tide,
Dissemination of erudition,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unctuous, analogy, appreciation, character, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Bacon
O thee I praise, and I sure ain’t fakin’
The fairest ether of carnal substance, our bacon!

That unctuous crunch so satisfying
I can already hear my fat...

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Categories: unctuous, food, humor, love,
Form: Couplet
Contemplations of An Existentialist
Life secretly offering fleeting moments of happiness… but the underlying sadness creeps through; the grief of human condition always seeps through from the unconscious. I...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unctuous, life, truth,
Form: Free verse



Joyless Joseph
Wordless worries wander wearily working wayward,
    Towards thoughts transgressing truth’s textured tide.
As always acknowledging agnosticism’s appeal,
    Essence easily evaporates,...

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Categories: unctuous, crazy, creation, imagination, ,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Nineteen
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Nineteen

“Not that I had not spied your tulip-lipped doting jasmine airs
Nor the way your wraith-like form take me...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unctuous, allegory,
Form: Rubaiyat
Eyes Ever After
Two pair of Eyes, assigned as leads,
by the puissant heart! As per the role had needs.
The play comprised a script of emotion,
and the pair showed...

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Categories: unctuous, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doctor's Waiting Room
I arrived early for the appointment I had made many months ago,
And began the interminable wait to consult with the medico!
When I checked in, it...

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Categories: unctuous, humorous, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
10-22-14: In the Cathedral of St Matthew the Apostle
In the beautiful, grand stillness 
Of a place for the transcendent, 
Like a lately-faded illness 
Seems the ugliness of now,
And I dare not look behind...

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Categories: unctuous, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Four Aces and a Black Moon
The bet had been bound ... and boldly called,
          Right there on the cold castle grounds...

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Categories: unctuous, adventure, conflict, games, moon,
Form: Alliteration
A Glurmy Gleepcious Glorp
I plurm and glorp with every breath
My existence defies and deifies death

I splurp and glomph amongst your days
Indistinguishable from mud and haze
I slig and slorg,...

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Categories: unctuous, friendship, funny, imagination, on
Form: ABC
The Words Came Out
THE WORDS CAME OUT ...

I am the mannequin metal hinges rusted articulations
The unfeeling solid dead wood that swirls with patterns
The unctuous rat flickering black eyed...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unctuous, anxiety, farewell, hurt,
Form: Free verse
What I Did For Art
You want to know its merits? 
Very well, then. Daylight slants 
deliciously across the boy's 
inclined, thoughtful face. 
His lace collar, crumpled, 
houses valleys of...

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Categories: unctuous, courage, culture, england, hero,
Form: Free verse
Ropeburn Godzilla
ROPEBURN GODZILLA

i was looking for the brown bottle
she had imagined for me
even promised
leaf shadows
35 year old doughnuts
still
in the closet
i am reading this in a ...

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Categories: unctuous, allegory
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs