Conjunctions Poems

Conjunctions

...We must have
looked through the same window.
Though we had yet to meet
an image developed
a reality fleshed out
an inevitable coincidence
began to move into place.
Until (only yesterday)
the ...
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Categories: conjunctions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

And

...An apparitions favourite word from punctuation-less sentences that continue on, on, on.
Cope without it you useless fools a flick suffices.
Semi-colon, colon, joining words thrust through the large...
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Categories: conjunctions, bereavement, best friend, extended
Form: Free verse


Emptiness of Poetry

...Poetry has left me again 
I’ve bled the hills and trees for words
I’ve searched for verbs in the hours

When someone fills the emptiness
I will have no need for pronouns 
No talk or fragments f...
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Categories: conjunctions, absence, loneliness, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse

A Stitch In Rhyme

...A quilt is a poem that’s been crafted
With stitches that cleverly mime
The words that a poet has drafted
In manner and rhythm and rhyme.

For in piecing a pattern together,
Every section, once ...
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Categories: conjunctions, analogy, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Open Word Classes

...Open Word Classes

In language there are classes, we are told,
Of words both new and old.
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs too,
And among them, open word classes few.

Nouns, the names of thi...
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Categories: conjunctions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Didactic


Running Rampant

...When words are running rampant
You just have to rein them in.
By lassoing a few of them,
At least you can begin.

They’ll buck and kick and race around,
Defiantly at first, 
Especially the adj...
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Categories: conjunctions, poems, words,
Form: Rhyme

If Time Were a Slow Thing

...If time were a slow thing
a snake shedding skins,
a lizard gradually wakening
to its life in the sunlight;
if it were a red bus
dawdling through
congested London streets,
or the backwa...
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Categories: conjunctions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDefined Image

...DEFINED IMAGE.
overshadowed
yet
eminent
arresting
but
completely
  different

surreal
  simplicity
of
perception

a relayed
strange
impression
now
dissolved

existential
conjunct...
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Categories: conjunctions, poetry,
Form: Other

Words Between

...You will say something mundane
and a sudden potency
will scratch my skin.

I mention an ordinary thing
and you show me where 
my words are smooth satin 
or an abrasion.

An invisible tissue
...
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Categories: conjunctions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Leaf

...Look!  Every leaf is a curve in a greater circle
winding inward into perfection,
a cryptogram coding a momentary perception.

See the spiral in the spiral?
See the conjunctions,
the branch upon...
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Categories: conjunctions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Heart Who Bleeds Words

...My heart bleeds words which take the form of poetry – by poet

There is grace in the nouns
     Freedom in the verbs
          There is music in the prose
   Whispers of light in the poem

The...
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Categories: conjunctions, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

Small Mutinies

...
"Small Mutinies"



So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps 
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky 
cashmere blankets 
of insecure insincerity
simple sc...
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Categories: conjunctions, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Are Words - a Florilegium Poem

...What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.

Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but h...
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Categories: conjunctions, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other

Premium MemberCunning Linguistics

...As you read this poem, I’m mentally undressing you.
Word by word your protests drop to the floor. 
Syllable by syllable I pare you down to honest flesh. 
Utterance by utterance, your secrets are r...
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Categories: conjunctions, allegory, sensual, word play,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberFragments of Fractals

...Fractals.

Spawn of iterating quadratic functions.  
Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions.
Impervious to human dysfunctions.

Makers of multiverses.  Encoders of creations.   
Limited only by...
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Categories: conjunctions, nature, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme

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