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High Flown
High Flown Poems - Poems about High Flown
Above My Head
...Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter as a hawk tangles with a squirrel. Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops in boggling bubbles. Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to ......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
high flown,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Dangling Dandelion Muse
...Dandelion puff clouds tickle the air with their flossy flights. Other weeds cannot fly they are deeply rooted, their seeds flop low. Landscapers grind the ground grimly, mowers grapple and grow......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
high flown,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Life On the Mad Wheel
...When all the world stood on the edge and a quivering panicking with the promise of nuclear war And altogether the enemies kept their positions built their arsenals to keep on threatening But......
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Colin Mitchell Williams
Categories:
high flown,
society,
Form:
Free verse
Life On the Mad Wheel
...When all the world stood on the edge and a quivering panicking with the promise of nuclear war And altogether the enemies kept their positions built their arsenals to keep on threatening But......
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Colin Mitchell Williams
Categories:
high flown,
war,
Form:
Free verse
Thoughts On Poetry
...To call it a poem and to pen it in a baroque form and style is to abuse carte blanche to express and bring forth a reader’s bile; avant-garde works that break traditions may ap......
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Sathya Babu
Categories:
high flown,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Orotund In the New Year
...Bombastic… So grandiloquent We are stated to be pompous asses. Therefore, our outcry is heard. 2017 is over. We are ready to bring in the New Year when the clock hits eleven. One more ho......
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Verlena S. Walker
Categories:
high flown,
celebration, december, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Waliking On My Cloud
...Walking on My Cloud celebrating victorious high-flown elevated verse of desperate desolation voyages grand black anger of calming spiritual passages reflecting light then… ......
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Kim Van Breda
Categories:
high flown,
imagination, introspection, poets, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Hero With No Medal
...HERO WITH NO MEDAL Could be you or me fallen out of the net. Just an old guy, down and out - Park bench newspaper-blanket : Drop a coin in his cup as I walk about. Never was any great hero - ......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
high flown,
dedication, integrity,
Form:
Quatrain
If I Could Choose
...If I were to be an animal, I would want to be my kitty. He is so spoiled and pampered That it is a downright pity. He does not do a single thing That he doesn’t desire to do. He answers to n......
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Joyce Johnson
Categories:
high flown,
animals
Form:
Quatrain
No Enlightened Poet Am I Proclaimed
...No enlightened poet am I proclaimed, Rhyming high-flown philosophies in poesy, (Instead, I only scratch out my words In verses of winds and scents of spring-- Of the shades of the light crown......
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©
Qi Wang
Categories:
high flown,
imagination, introspection, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Well, Excuse Me
...WELL, EXCUSE ME People don’t like me to say at parties that it’s such A waste to throw out good food when so many People go hungry every day even in our city. Can’t you laugh fo......
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Sidney Beck
Categories:
high flown,
philosophyme, me, planet,
Form:
Free verse