Connoting Poems


IRONIC EXISTENCE

...ronic – isn’t it…?
The very essentials we need to survive
Are the same essentials that endanger and destroy us!
The very same people we love
Are the same loved ones we hurt or hurt us –
The very...
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Categories: connoting, irony, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTint Of Orange

...Ecstatic eye of night
thoughts tangled tangent
tint of orange moon
slivers were just hazy
incipient learned launch
as the querulous quirk
indented ingress idly
still desperate to capture
thou...
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Categories: connoting, beautiful, beauty, celebration, color,
Form: Imagism


Premium MemberI Wandered Lonely As a Geek

..."I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" by William Wordsworth 



I wandered lonely as a geek
Through silent woods and rustling leaves
Down the hill to the flowing creek 
Away from life's s...
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Categories: connoting, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Riffathon

...Whoa a romantic story,
and escapist relics.
Devoid, the symbols of lilac,
subsequent disregard and psychodelic.

A young girl dressed in a diaphanous mimic,
relaxing within a hermetic Edwardian...
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Categories: connoting, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSon of Amittai - 1 of 2

...commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”

But Jonah ran;...
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Categories: connoting, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme


Song of the Bird

...Swinging on a delicate branch of tree
A jubilant bird sings loud out of glee
"Hey hey, I am a free bird, born to fly
Hey aye, I can even touch the vast sky"

Relishing the tranquil rainy weather...
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Categories: connoting, analogy, angel, animal, bird,
Form: Sonnet

Notes On Truth

...— This poem describes our journey from the reality of life to the truth of death.
— The introductory “then” connoting ‘in medias res’ is reminiscent of the opening of Dante’s journey to the inferno ...
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Categories: connoting, death, life,
Form: Prose

Divination

...Weave together twine, yarn, and natural hemp ropes. 
Tie 9 knots after you've braided and blasphemated 9 popes. 
Do this accordingly to restrain all within this bind. 
All while chanting hypnotic ...
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Categories: connoting, growth,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberThe Mystery of Humpty Dumpty

...Too many questions, way too few answers
Why would an egg wear blue pants, sir? And
Wherefore his fall? Perchance he was struck with a lance, sir 
   Or could it be he keeled over from cancer?

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Categories: connoting, humorous, mystery, myth, nursery
Form: Rhyme

Tune Within Your Conscience Self Perception

...Yesterday's gone, overcome & chose to live as if every day's the last. Make every second count. It's true not one thought can be replaced. Look ahead & embrace tomorrow. Hold strong within, steady yo...
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Categories: connoting, art, beauty, blessing, inspirational,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberBlack Roses

...Black Roses bouquet
Augurs the broken tie bonds 
Preambling a rupture
Connoting unspoken words
And spureous promises












1-23-2016...
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Categories: connoting, flower,
Form: Tanka

Time Can Freeze Youth Indefinitely

...This vain wish to live longer, somewhere,
makes me struggle with my vulnerability
of having been born with the fear of dying...
and before that is accomplished: let me live!


I've been told, "...
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Categories: connoting, life, loss, mystery, nostalgia,
Form: Ballade

Poulter's Measure-Lyrically Concordant

...Putting thoughts on paper, connoting their portent;
contesting guilt by being lyrically concordant
with symphonic tones of poetical elegance,
expressing a mere necessity rather than extravagance.
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Categories: connoting, art, passion, sad, uplifting,
Form: Quatrain

How Can I Change What Has Already Been Changed?

...How can I change what has already been changed?
Everything has been tried over a thousands ways,
and there my perplexing question lays...
without a persuasive answer connecting the flow of words
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Categories: connoting, introspectionwrite, change, write, prejudice,
Form: Sestina
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