Commonplace Poems - Poems about Commonplace

...Let sail this doom and gloom Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter In the morning head up the gangplank The hours till I lay down is a lifetime I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons How will......

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...Darkness engulfed me I struggled to adjust to the shadows blinked when my vision brought to light— an empty room, rumpled sheets of an unmade bed a tear-stained pillow where I'd laid my head T......

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... The sky, a distant painted masterpiece, Unfurling blues where airy currents cease. From here, the giants loom, their towers high, Their peaks like needles pricking at the sky. The hurried f......

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...mark reality by a notch in a tree honest recognition of the not dissimilar I wish I wouldn't notice so much - try to make it out I should dress smart, stare blankly ......

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...The Poet by Hermann Hesse translation by Michael R. Burch Only upon me, the lonely one, Do this endless night’s stars shine As the fountain gurgles its faery song. For me alone, the lonely ......

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...The commonplace entertains the unspeakable. Horror yellows in vaults. It is all recorded, all labeled all explained or condemned. We keep the worst atrocities close, create libraries to wareh......

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...A brightly feathered crooner daffodils along a hidden creek the bombs mimicking raindrops cracking the halo of good dreams. Assassins are ever commonplace in critical condition is the human ra......

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... As I am growing older and life becoming lonelier, The past beckons, and though I had almost tossed it out, The idea of going back to my native land and my people Now ......

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... Part I Rock n Roll came through the slave trade The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made” “Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said] The blues helped through the strug......

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... Gifts commonplace; You’re the giving ****; Being bled you get used to; Share ......

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...away from poetry in the commonplace- What now ignites my muse your contest topics I often use 'twixt tween my afternoon snooze......

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...a disguised symbolism in an immersive conception enveloped & surrounded with imagery of the commonplace revealed by stimulations of the mind an illumination becomes ......

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...In the whisper of twilight, where shadows meet the edge of dreams, Lies the truth of our times, a somber murmur carried by the wind of mediocrity. Once, the soul soared with the ambition of stars; ......

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... o how do moons deceive the dusk one breath from gone to there … like tapestries with Guipure lace stained soft with blue … and bare? o how should I yet mourn the......

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...("Citadel of Light Merit Badge" - #67, 2016, original oil) Inside Out Outside In The world is nothing If not a continuum of beliefs and practices Along a spectrum of consciousness Wit......

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