The Replacements
...If you like Keanu, you’ll love The Replacements
‘bout an ex-football player who's into effacement.
Called back to the big time when A-listers strike,
it’s got some great scenes that I know you wil...
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Categories:
effacement, sports,
Form: Rhyme
REALITY REVEALED
...REALITY REVEALED *
dilemma
of
integrity
sensuality
conflicts
with curbed
desire
irony
in
self-effacement
ephemeral
& by chance
emotional
& dramatic
objective
an
influen...
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Categories:
effacement, poetry, word play,
Form: Other
Misguided Power
...In the hollows of power’s grip,
where shadows twist the heart’s cry,
there—mights build thrones on backs bent,
where abuse wears the mask of guidance,
control, a cloak woven with the thread of fe...
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Categories:
effacement, abuse, dark, money, power,
Form: Free verse
No Brave New World
...
In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats,
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes,
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...
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Categories:
effacement, art,
Form: Rhyme
Bri Edwards Poem Comment
...Bri E. may be so smart, but his meter's opaque
with a density quotient, the Gods might forsake.
Tongue in cheek, web's undone, but with spasms of fun,
and he rhymes, so he wins! Hope no evil Bri t...
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Categories:
effacement, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Whiteboard Gold
...roiling with rainfall
effacement of whiteboard gold
smudge of sunset highs
bleak venue of tinkling notes
rusting aluminum roof
2/24/2020...
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Categories:
effacement, rain,
Form: Tanka
Still Remains
...By Mark Miller © 02/19/2014
Compass of memories held loosely
Misdirection pointing in iota
Exquisitely anchored hangs an eminent noose
Minds of subdivisions wage illusion of wars in retribution
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Categories:
effacement, body, conflict, confusion,
Form: Blank verse
Troubled Thoughts 1 Life Proof
...Rude awaakenings
passive resistances
offset reposes
nominal com-pre-poses
clattering synopsis
reflective rejections
loveless offerings
sentient longings
goober finales
creepy filings
jubri...
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Categories:
effacement, education, feelings, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Erasure - Half Alone
...Erasing half of you into another
Merging like flour into water
Swaddled in comforting love.
When alone damp and bone chilled
Staring through rain slicked woodland
Alone with the unknown world
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Categories:
effacement, absence, identity, loneliness, rain,
Form: Free verse
The Character
...To run after material fame
Counted not rich sensitive game;
Among wealth, sex and love affair,
Character is above all arbiter.
As adorn ornament each bridal's limb,
An artist make alive clumsy-wart-s...
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Categories:
effacement, boat, character, endurance,
Form: Didactic
Time's Secret
...The day was falling,
enacting all its own regret
with light, like washed-out technicolor.
One glance affirmed:
the rain would soon begin.
Thunderheads played God,
recruiting legions higher still;
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Categories:
effacement, mystery,
Form: Free verse
When
...When
When Muslims and Jews, eschew all notions of dissenting difference, and embrace in
distinct integration.
When Christians and Buddhists fuse love of self with love of other and dispense with p...
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Categories:
effacement, inspirational, self, love, men,
Form: Blank verse
Celebration
...Darkness covered ever crevice,
When the angels of God betrayed the Lamb,
And the tongue of accuser, set us all down in the shame and guilt of self-
effacement.
The sound of fury cursed our joy,
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Categories:
effacement, black african american, devotion,
Form: Ballad