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Contrivance Poems - Poems about Contrivance

Premium Member Shirt Front and Fork - Hans Arp
...Sculpture - Shirt Front and Fork so much takes root - that's the game beneath the surface sits the truth: all that lays atop scrubs up nicely :D when shadows......

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Categories: contrivance, art, bullying,
Form: Ekphrasis
How one twenty first century married mortal male me - Matthew Scott Harris
...How one twenty first century married mortal male (me - Matthew Scott Harris)... found himself bewitched about Circe, particularly after reading book title by the same name. An enchantress and a ......

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Categories: contrivance, 12th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Bell
...There is a sadness soothing to the soul, And with its smoothing, Herakles made whole. And deep within him, pealed a bell, And those who hear, must harken well: For from the void, its rhythms swel......

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Categories: contrivance, deep, myth, peace, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Deceased Politician
...Cold death it is, descending from the sky, That like a shroud, across the land doth lie. And why need death be cold? Let we this tale unfold. Dire death is no distraction for the best! They ga......

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Categories: contrivance, death, funeral, funny, political,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Dancing Dumpster Fire
...A flaming contrivance of heat, The dumpster was quick on its feet. It danced on its toes, Though why, no one knows, A partner it never did meet.......

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Categories: contrivance, dance, fire, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick



Defecation accidentally clogged
...Defecation accidentally clogged... for the umpteenth time during spate to sit scrawny buttucks on porcelain throne id est videre licet toilet bowl... with toxic water brew threatening to o......

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Categories: contrivance, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Strawman
... Your Strawman Your Strawman walks a hidden, ghostly path. He isn’t real to the touch or human, and yet You’ll find his likeness splashed across The wounded nations of the......

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Categories: contrivance, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MENDACIOUS
... I've heard that song before, I've seen that dance too. You think that we don't know, what it is that you do. You run your mouth about me, as if you're in a race. The stories you've fa......

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Categories: contrivance, betrayal, character, crazy, family,
Form: Rhyme
I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza
...I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza Omnipresent grief and horror abounds toward ceaseless killing fields impossible mission for me to summon forth fading magi......

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Categories: contrivance, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thats What A Buddhas Like
...(Rinpoche in Sarnath, 1987) That’s What A Buddha’s Like It’s hard to know where to start when talking about the ineffable. Maybe starting at the end is best. It’s taken me a lifet......

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Categories: contrivance, appreciation, devotion, friendship, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Within Us and Without Us
...(Five Buddha Mandala, 2018, original encaustic) Notes on Religion and Faith The superstition of religious content applies to all religions and faiths. They are the context of faith. ......

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Categories: contrivance, philosophy, psychological, religion, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Ready Aim Fire
...Ready...Aim...Fire! In light of tension twixt brinkmanship rumbling one East Asian Tiger country otherwise known as "the land of morning calm," yours truly t'will invite "freedom foo fighte......

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Categories: contrivance, america, anger, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme
Hierarchical Paradigm of the Amish Community
...Hierarchical paradigm of the Amish community After reading the novel titled Broken English by Paul L Gaus... accentuating, exhibiting, incorporating... the Amish, whose long history of farmin......

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Categories: contrivance, adventure, america, animal, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peace On Earth
...When all squabbles and wars shall cease As for the complete world, we will create peace Individuals ought to be more socially adept, not scolding one another for being incorrect. Co......

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Categories: contrivance, analogy, appreciation, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
...While daydreaming about timepiece inventors... as the figurative curtain closes on 2022 How arbitrary the assignment of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years... to the passage of time, ......

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Categories: contrivance, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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