The Halusinating Toreador by Salvador Dali - 1970 Contest 1302
...Standing in front of this enormous masterpiece,
Seeing his life story as the layers release.
I wasn’t warned to expect a wonder so rare.
I guess I expected a melting clock here or there.
Venu...
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Categories:
bullfight, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Sway
...Black Country Communion 2 Poetry Contest, By Robert James Liguori
Poem inspired by The Black Country Communion song: SWAY
Written: August 04, 2023
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Categories:
bullfight, analogy, appreciation, memory, music,
Form: Rhyme
Bullfighter and Bulls
...A fuming, fierce and moving target
On yor species will you place yor bet!
Aiming the blade into shoulder blade or beating heart
all toreadors hope to throw that fatal decisive dart!
This bull...
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Categories:
bullfight, animal, sports,
Form: Quatorzain
February 28th 1968
...A turning point with
advantage of 20/20 hindsight
identifies severe dislocation
birthing emotional plight
intervening years since psyche wrenched
by rather innocuous event at first sight
exag...
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Categories:
bullfight, 2nd grade, abuse, anti
Form: Bio
Terra Firma
...When both my feet don’t touch the ground
Lightheadedness proves overwhelming
Turbulent thoughts going while coming
They swirl about me round and round
Cloaked in black a moonless night
The how...
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Categories:
bullfight, dark, fear, grief, night,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Lavish Praise Not Sought
...Painful self actualization
quickly brights to light
paltry reasons (with or
without rhyme) a desolate sight
within blinkered mindseye hindsight
grotesque grimace shocks with affright
desolate...
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Categories:
bullfight, dark, desire, memorial, my
Form: Metrical Tale
Yea, I Admit Being a Little Uptight
...Yea, I Admit Being A Little Uptight...
Yet,...this baby boomer surrenders
since many an elapsed yesternight
to inevitable (albeit gradual)
cosmic fusion with universal spright
notched calendri...
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Categories:
bullfight, age, cry, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Spiritedly Distilling Social Graces
...Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (ex...
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Categories:
bullfight, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Around the World In Eighty Days
...His German relations would turn in their graves
This great gnome abduction is causing shock waves,
It reads like the spy who came in from the cold
They've held him to ransom and broken the mould.
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Categories:
bullfight, character, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
The Doomsday Clock 2 Minutes To Midnight
...It is now eleven at night
She waltzes into my tense bedroom
The owl looks with its eyes of light
Disappears the threatening doomsday gloom
About an hour or so ago
Collin from the Sub-a...
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Categories:
bullfight, anxiety, fate, fear, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ferdinand
...Do you remember Ferdinand,
A bull who wouldn't fight?
First published 1936,
The pages black and white.
He liked to sit beneath a tree
And smell the blooms that grew;
A simple soul, unlike his...
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Categories:
bullfight, books,
Form: Rhyme
Brain Rain
...Wood burner, smoke choke,
Dog shite, bullfight.
Hashtag, manbag.
**** bleaching, hate preaching.
Save the fox, change your clocks.
Prom queen, crime scene.
Chocolate fountain, food ...
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Categories:
bullfight, society,
Form: List
Give It Horns
...Like a buffalo stampede
On a march unimpeded
By rock nor barrier
By lock nor river
Chop them into timber
Leave then blue and limber
Like a freshly uncovered thorn
Born hungry for the thron...
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Categories:
bullfight, hero, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Game of Beast and Man
...………....
On act two, my handkerchief dropped down on
my weakening feet, escaping the wipe of tears
from my sullen lids: by this time children
too young to make their own milk burst i...
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Categories:
bullfight, angst,
Form: Lyric
Jiminy
...In Beijing, China, there’s a sport
That has a mighty pull.
It’s kind of like a bullfight,
But it doesn’t have a bull.
Competitors get special food
Like shrimp, red beans and liver.
For extra treats,...
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Categories:
bullfight, funny, sports,
Form: Rhyme
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