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Body Of Work Poems - Poems about Body Of Work

Premium MemberTen for Glenn

...Sing is what Glenn Hughes does
what is the rare truth
tonight I will play Glenn Hughes on repeat
The Voice of Rock
His songs touch my soul
Music is the Healer
it is our words upon his lips we s...
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Categories: body of work, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGlenn Hughes Reprise

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To love an artist
is to go without saying 
his body of work is Golden 

Glenn Hughes, the Voice of Rock
has blessed us with 50 years
of musical masterpieces

When you are down and l...
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Categories: body of work, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWell

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"Well"



Well, 

I’m way too romantic
aren’t I?
Tattoo’d poetry 

on a tongue
not 
speaking

on a body of work 
spent unspent
love let loose 

on a deep
Fren...
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Categories: body of work, dark, love, romance,
Form: Free verse

Temple

...Your body of work
My temple
I've come to worship 
 Fingers grazing lightly across the ink spilled pages
 your beautiful soul laid out before me
Your minds a flowered field I find myself running ...
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Categories: body of work, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSerpentine

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"Serpentine"


Give a woman enough rope 
and She’ll show you 
what hanging’s worth

the life coiled around 
a body of work 
could be misconstrued

serpentine
She...
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Categories: body of work, muse, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberDark Dark Red Roses

...I remember when 
love spoken plainly 
conveyed all manner
of hidden agendas
hands instead of 
tap dancing keys
unlocked 
a body of work
stroked skin melting into
sultry deep pink summer sati...
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Categories: body of work, muse, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Ground Level Entry

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"Ground Level Entry"

“She fits the bill”,
they say it 
insouciantly

visions of being 
carried in the beak 
of a bilious pelican 

where it builds
its rudimentary ne...
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Categories: body of work, muse,
Form: Narrative

Because In My Mind You'Re a Sunday Drive

...Let me be consumed by you
Your song, your soul, your body of work that reads like a road map towards some vague destination
A place in my heart now void of its contempt
This is a long drive for so...
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Categories: body of work, crush, first love,
Form: Free verse

Nothing Moves But Mind

...Outside and elsewhere
existence is a leaf on a deep blue river;
a long night has set it free to bob and tumble
as an upturned mirror caught in the gray rays
of an obscure sun.

I listen to the ...
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Categories: body of work, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Notes On a Wrist

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"Notes on a Wrist" 

the pulse felt
under nibs
of fingertips
translates a life

the semicolan
stretches like 
the devil
hungers 

it can 
wait a long time
eternall...
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Categories: body of work, journey, muse,
Form: Narrative

The Begin Again Beings

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"The Begin Again Beings"

A family of swords
the world under their feet
to all that is fallen in the 
darkened passages beneath,
slipped on crushed pearls of tears
rivule...
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Categories: body of work, journey, muse, strength,
Form: Narrative

The Payload

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"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
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Categories: body of work, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Kaleidoscope

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"Kaleidoscope" 

They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy 
and far removed from 
such an alien world,
would not possess the...
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Categories: body of work, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTell It Like It Is

...It lacks every rhyme or reason
To bake a cake and not serve it
It takes away the season
And leaves a bad taste to sit

Here's a baker opening shop
Who's a few slices short of a loaf
Abruptly b...
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Categories: body of work, absence, analogy, angst, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising

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“Her Ever Changing Moods, the Rapture Reprising”

Lavender seduces symmetry  
in her ever changing moods
slips into something more comfortable

a swollen tangerine sky 
m...
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Categories: body of work, muse,
Form: Romanticism

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