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Contortions Poems - Poems about Contortions

Premium Member It is what it is and yet
...Our soul presence sought to conjure a rhythm, to dance upon the stage of space and time but since light refracted in body prism, mind could not translate the intended chime. Caged in form, soul......

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Categories: contortions, courage, fate, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Fair Game
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Fair Game by Michael R. Burch At the Tennessee State Fair, the largest stuffed animals hang tilt-a-whirl over the pool tables with mocking button eyes, knowing the p......

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Categories: contortions, addiction, confidence, eulogy, fun,
Form: Free verse



sixtytwosevens or AgodlessElohim
...Anointed in Kerosene to confer in agony with ignited desecration of mortal flesh to bone, seared by melting anguish writhe blistering contortions through a suppressed discomfort in furious continual ......

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Categories: contortions, absence, conflict, death, fire,
Form: Prose Poetry
An anticlimactic sexual event
...An anticlimactic sexual event... with Barb Black née Beebee to help set the ghost of little Willy Brandt free (a non German, but germane fellow courtesy Craigslist classified personals of m......

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Categories: contortions, 12th grade, adventure, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Importance of the Alternative Perspective
...Importance of the Alternative Perspective Contortions of my sentient being Distortions of my inclinations to dream Proportions of truth deciphering what it all means Abortions of opinion as t......

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Categories: contortions, life,
Form: Rhyme



Perpetual Quandries of Dischord
...Perpetual Quandries of Dischord Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder The incriminating evidence on an o......

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Categories: contortions, international,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pink Flamingos
...on her lawn four pink plastic flamingos peak above a March snowbank twisted forms caught in forlorn evasion beak-body contortions like wrestlers resilient ......

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Categories: contortions, cute, fun, happiness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Poets Viii
...Poems for Poets VIII Fireflies thinking to illuminate the darkness? Poets! —Michael R. Burch BeMused by Michael R. Burch You will find in her hair a fragrance more severe than camp......

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Categories: contortions, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets X
...POEMS FOR POETS X US Verse, after Auden by Michael R. Burch “Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.” Verse has small value in our Unisphere, nor i......

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Categories: contortions, poems, poetry, poets, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Pool Sharks
...POEMS ABOUT POOL SHARKS Shark by Michael R. Burch They are all unknowable, these rough pale men— haunting dim pool rooms like shadows, propped up on bar stools like scarecrows, nodding and......

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Categories: contortions, games, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leaders and Statesman
...Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Jaier Bolsonaro' You stand out, uniquely, from the political herd Lickspittles by choice, and from others deffered.' Others who louse-like cluster and croon Who mutter......

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Categories: contortions, analogy, appreciation, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rope Is Not the Snake
... Rope is not the snake It’s high time we cease, praying to appease; far cry from the truth, we must seek forsooth. When love’s our flagship, no oneupmanship contortions......

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Categories: contortions, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Swirling Thought Forms
... Swirling thought forms, by heart impulsed Merely nurtured in brain Contortions leaving soul convulsed Needless energy drain Thought but an instrument Rest it and be content Wit......

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Categories: contortions, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ice Cream Gran 8 - Journey To the Centre of the Oeuf
...Gran glared at the general. ‘So tell me where we’re at What’s a chicken got to do with me and Nitro Cat?’ ‘That chicken,’ said the general, ‘has laid a special egg It’s got a micro chip in it, I’m......

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Categories: contortions, fantasy, grandmother, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breaking the Silence
...“You wound, like Parthians, while you fly, and kill with a retreating eye.” Samuel Butler DODGING PARTHIAN SHOTS (WHILE STALKING GOLIATH AND TRENCH) By ELZBIETA BIENGA Edited by ELSI TRESÉD......

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Categories: contortions, allegory, literature,
Form: List

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