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Cosmopolitan Poems - Poems about Cosmopolitan

Do we as writers create emotional bridges

...As writers, are we all but seducers of the minds of others

We silently kiss in friendship 

As they read one of our poetic gifts?


(À lone voice whispers)


Do we as writers create emotio...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

I Wish I Could Leave

...I dreamed about the snow-topped
Pines of Michigan 
Wishing I Could Go Back
And See Them Again

I dreamed about the voluminous
Mountains of California 
Wishing I could go Back
And take someone...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Buddha Meets Christmas

...Down the fervent aeons Buddha’s sagesse,
casts its august shroud on benign witness,
shades, shadows, subtle symbol shift,
encompass cosmopolitan and temporal,
incongruous to flaccid predilection ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, august, celebration, character, christmas,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOrchid Woman

...Oh you know the type—
the orchid woman

a cosmopolitan who cosmo sips
between snips of gist
her charisma a starship —collides
with your star-full eyes
supernova for Casanova
her pouty lips kn...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, beautiful, imagery, irony, power,
Form: Free verse

Confluence

...Streams mingle with rivers
And rivers mingle with oceans
while oceans reconcile the distinction 
Like humans converging from regions 

Civilization marks a local population
Originating back to ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, appreciation, culture, immigration, paradise,
Form: Free verse



Ode To Kuala Lumpur

...Oh Kuala Lumpur, city of contrasts
Where ancient and modern, beautifully coexist
Your towering skyscrapers, a sight to behold
A modern metropolis, that never grows old

From the iconic Petronas ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, appreciation,
Form: Ode

Sing With Me My Darling

...Oh Mary dear honey, My sweet little beehive loving you as you carry our baby. whose mind is linked with frog-eyed spirits from within the smoldering sun. In this sheltered home in a land of mystique ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, desire, film, freedom, friend,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberReading a Memory

...Begins with Rupert Bear,
Until that was found too square;
Then Just William came on the scene,
But soon became a childish has-been.

Youth-filled reading,a melanged mix,
Biggles & squadron,sixt...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, childhood, literature, teenage,
Form: Bio

Memory Lane

...Listening to her talk about past times was thrilling. Going down memory lane wasn't what she liked. Embarking on yesterday’s plane wasn’t her kind of person. She was too busy for such diversions. She...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, death, family, farewell, grandmother,
Form: Haibun

Silvia Queen of Sweden Our Queen

...A noble woman
       among the nobility...
        humanist in
         humanity...
         humble in the middle
         the superb...
         Solidarity inside
         of the sick world,
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Categories: cosmopolitan, allegory, allusion, appreciation, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCompassionate Education

...Back in the day
of exclusively straight white male
****-retentive missionaries,
the Church

Whether monoculturally Catholic
(which may become an oxymoron
one enlightened day)
or Protestant,
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Categories: cosmopolitan, christian, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse

Mayo and Fries

...The whole world knows that
Adding vinegar to chips and fish
Turns the whole offering into
An almost Earth shattering dish,
But how many people know,
How many people realise 
The amazing effect ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, food, joy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Berlin, September 1962

...Berlin, City of Espionage;
split by a wall, divided into four
only approached from the west
by road, rail, and air corridor.
Still carrying traces of the Berlin
of Isherwood’s thirties days
so ...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, adventure, history, international, memory,
Form: Rhyme

The Fish Rots From the Head

...Fish and chips and a pint of dark brew.
Malt vinegar and lashings of salt.
A fish dinner served up
by a truck in a newspaper cone.

That was then, that was before
taste buds got hard boiled,
b...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTour De Force

...TOUR DE FORCE

so enjoyable
 flourish
in a cosmopolitan
complex
spanning
 the compulsive so
 sombre in a deft
narrative

untangled
in   panoramic moments
of  sustained intimacy i
tonall...
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Categories: cosmopolitan, poetry,
Form: Other

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