collective coma
plodding sky swallows a squirrel
clinging to a gnarly tree
blemished pens bemoan
wily wordplay
out of nowhere
i am sadly too late
they have built the battlefield
in a collective coma
i build sorrow
my words disappear
one gloats madly
i go savagely into twilight
flaming snakes
bite the Hanged Man
the Wheel of Fortune
spins into the Sun
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Categories:
collective, dark, surreal, word play,
Form: Free verse
From Our Collective Humanity
No time to be on the fence,
our stressed Earth wants more dedication
to her defense.
Weeping for her is not enough,
join the environmental cause, we
must be tough.
The world's children to elderly,
doing something about pollution,
climate change, it's a priority.
Save wildlife and humans for their rising,
from our collective humanity, our globe
needs reviving.
The youth of us should inherit,
an ecologically sound
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Categories:
collective, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool
Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool...
because you watch
and see that democracy will unspool
military (intelligent)
industrial complex tool
at Trump's beck and call,
where hardened soldiers
train the crosshairs of their firearms
against innocent bystanders,
especially targeting
supposedly nonestablishmentarians
(like this rebel without a clause),
who embraces win/win conflict resolution
shouting thru a megaphone
while standing atop a toady stool,
hence deployment of National
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Categories:
collective, abuse, age, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
A Hammer to Apathy
Forget the cautionary calls for restraint —
this world doesn’t need saviors.
It wants hands that claw at the roots,
Sick fangs that grind old ideas to dust.
Ideas aren’t soft; they’re detonators,
charged and ready to shatter the silence.
You don’t repair a broken machine
by merely shining its rust.
The absence of thinking is a pandemic—
eradicate it like a disease.
Smash apathy
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Categories:
collective, change,
Form: Free verse
November Moon
November moon,
dangling pearl
trailing the face of dusk
like a brooding tear.
Morpheus leads our way
through luminous sleep,
through stained glass shards of
our multiverse.
November moon,
you languish unrealized,
in somber slumber fog.
Our mortal arousal,
our wounds are reopened.
Morpheus leads our way,
through lustrous ruminations,
through spiraling remnants of
our Megaverse.
November moon
We hardly notice you
in our narcoleptic cloud,
our emergent consciousness,
our collective imagination.
Morpheus leads our
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Categories:
collective, dream, imagery, introspection, moon,
Form: Free verse
Everyone lives in a collective hallucination they call reality, but I, a poet
Everyone lives in a collective hallucination they call reality, but I, a poet...
I lose myself in words as if in a golden mist, wrapping each thought in a thin veil of unknown memories,
I write and live as if tied to invisible threads that gently pull me towards a dream, a place
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Categories:
collective, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Collective In Pieces
We struggle to find peace in the collective
because we're in pieces as a whole
This fragmentation is unnatural & we're
at war with the divisive
No matter how you slice it us coming together
should be the goal
The pie in the sky is a sweet dream & those
that eat are decisive
Look to your mind for the answers for
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Categories:
collective, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
collective, analogy, words,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Collective Consciousness
A Quote By Rod Serling:
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless, as infinity.
In a conceptual world of fifth dimension there exists an unobservable micro dimension called space. It contains an invisible loop smaller than an atom. As
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Categories:
collective, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
collective nouns: ten front teeth are seven thebes every day of the week
homelands / husbands / playing house / strands
& strings of horses behind strangers lounging
un-belonging to Thebes of Sevens or women,
depending on how you slice matters, as a perspective
as a twisted bark of favors
sneaky is a wooden gift donkey at a garden gate
overbitten hinge with ten front teeth, grinning
hidden from
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Categories:
collective, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest race
anthills never knew Oppenheimer
We show no mercy, leave no trace
victors are killers chewing food chain rhetoric
We build machines to serve our need
our will be done in
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Categories:
collective, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Collective Hearts
Remember that with a collective heart, you can connect to GOD
gather your quills, gather your words
ink deep inside the well of your hearts
choose phrases that resound with your soul
Be a billboard for the broken, lonely and lost
Advertise God's Kingdom
with the workings of your hands
Share your riches with those less
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Categories:
collective, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Collective Noun For Poets
A melancholy of poets
A suffering of poets
A torment of poets
A provoking thought of poets
An expression of poets
An inspiration of poets
A rhyme of poets
A verse of poets
A stanza of poets
An anthology of poets
A poem of poets
We are all poets
however some of us
go to the trouble
of writing it down
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Categories:
collective, fun, poets,
Form: Light Verse
Collective Punishment
Our enemies the Philistines
As we were taught in Sunday school
Are extras in the battle lines
To die, as we were born to rule
What lovely racists we’ve become
Programmed to hate our nation’s foes
Eurasians and Mohammedans
Can meet the fate our masters chose
The monstrous industry of war
Directs the western heads of state
To where the high explosives roar
To maim,
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Categories:
collective, allah, america, anger, arabic,
Form: Rhyme
Word Bank:Holidays
Word bank: Holidays
As I am finding time difficult to manage at the moment - I thought a word bank would be a good idea for people to refer to and add comments with additional words linked to a theme. This may help you complete a poem, enter a contest or give you inspiration for a
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Categories:
collective, community, holiday, language, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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