Flamboyancy Poems

Premium Memberpainted ladies

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painted ladies

over the years i have forgotten her eyes
that her smile was soft
and her hair like chiffon on a wednesday morning

we walked along stanyan street
celebrating the color...
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Categories: flamboyancy, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFirefly

...Fiery furnace-filled flames,
Fabulously flash-flare;
Fantastic feelings flow,
Forming flamboyancy;
Flirtatious fancies foam,
Fabricating frenzy;
Freedom flutters fondly......
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Categories: flamboyancy, insect, nature,
Form: Pleiades


Premium MemberCalling All Butterflies

...calling butterflies to the tropics
orchids, hibiscus, bromeliad, clivia,
lovely red hot cattails
raring to show off their flamboyancy
brilliant colors
fragrance usually only found in the tropics...
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Categories: flamboyancy, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Epiphany That Changed My Life

...It was almost at the middle of my teen-age days,
When mind, like a horse without bridle, found rough ways;
Inner laissez-faire, like snake in dilapidated crack, set in,
Legs, the way they found, a...
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Categories: flamboyancy, change, character, life, self,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberClerihew Dali

...Spaniard Salvador Dali
a surrealist he came to be
With  ego & flamboyancy he did persist
this moustachiod self-publicist...
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Categories: flamboyancy, art, people,
Form: Clerihew


Lincoln Cathedral

...Saints, gargoyles, Kings, and imps,
mix, match and mingle.
The beatific and the ogres
hang over slate roofs
like drunks at closing-time.

The stone-masons were subversives,
they must have dran...
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Categories: flamboyancy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Lincoln Cathedral

...Saints, gargoyles, Kings and imps,
mix, match and mingle.
The beatific and the ogres
hang over slate roofs 
like drunks at closing-time.

The stone-masons were subversives,
they must have drun...
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Categories: flamboyancy, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberMaiden's Swayed Movements

...With such feminine flamboyancy
this maiden sways in breathtaking  movements
flashing, flitting, flaming a sweet minuet--
beneath a mural of moonlight’s alchemy,
her flared gown fair as sequin...
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Categories: flamboyancy, flower, magic, summer,
Form: Alliteration

Mind the Paint

...The left side of my brain a kaleidoscope of hues, 
pinks and purples, yellows, reds and blues.
All shades for each crazy mood I choose, 
with a variety of paint my mind carries, 
ther...
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Categories: flamboyancy, identity, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Drifting Into El Rojos Cantina

...He drifted into town
on his faithful quarter horse called Moose
who had a three-legged gait 
which gave him saddle sores
when drifting from town-to-town.

A desert wind hit them hard,
he pulle...
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Categories: flamboyancy, love,
Form: Free verse

David Smith

...At Rio David stole solid gold in boccia,
With a score of 5-0, won it unquestionably,
Flashing punk blue hair, his hairdresser, 
Gave him a discount for his flamboyancy. 
 
With spastic quadriple...
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Categories: flamboyancy, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

Monorhyme : Natural Sylvan Forests

...Beholding the natural intricacies of nature
Is a sight most intriguing for the gesture
Found in  the flamboyancy of natural art
Observed in picturesque landscapes in part.

The land lays  in cal...
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Categories: flamboyancy, allah, animal, beauty, imagery,
Form: Monorhyme

The Castle On a Hill

...The Land Of Royal Monarchs


from the plains we see
the land of royal monarchs 
perched on a hilltop

its architecture
draws us to the heritage 
of the blue blooded 

secret lives of kings...
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Categories: flamboyancy, allusion, betrayal, garden, murder,
Form: Senryu

Synoetic Nouveau

...SYNOETIC NOUVEAU

misreflect moving introspect
factualize flamboyancy
in radical fanaticism
a gaudy malady
of catastrophic 
opulence

beauteous summaries blush
nontoxic pure embolic...
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Categories: flamboyancy, paradise,
Form: Free verse

Ulteriority

...“ULTERIORITY”

“Ulterior” motives and hidden meanings
Poets pen pieces-- revealing feelings
Sometimes hidden—predominantly exposed
Often the two, inevitably—juxtaposed

Robert Frost first coin...
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Categories: flamboyancy, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme

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