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Intermissions Poems - Poems about Intermissions

Matsuo Basho: English translations of Haiku about Life 1

...Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture.

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Categories: intermissions, culture, death, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberNovember Sanctum

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sun sets early in november
while streetlights pepper busy sidewalks
and chilly winds hurl through the streets
 
bundled up, head on we face the gale
always keen for coffeehouse intermissions
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Categories: intermissions, solitude,
Form: Free verse



I'll match that fire

...I'll match that fire.
I'll throw all this desire and allow you to inspire. Poof. Don't you want to go higher?
High above the clouds.
High above to the forever broken permanent place.
The place th...
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Categories: intermissions, allegory, birth, universe,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHarbors

...lay intermissions
fortuitous functions
middle roadside rests...
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Categories: intermissions, adventure, journey, joy, memory,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberThe Batman Movie

...The Batman Movie (a review). 

The clues part was cool, but the end of it got boring. I liked that Batman kept a journal - I like the idea of men keeping journals, because, do men have many thought...
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Categories: intermissions, school, student, teen, write,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberRear-Ended Nightmares-

...amongst the prism dreams
nightmares in rage enlarging schemes 
of the fiery fiendish fiends below the ground
the skies intervene cloudless simply innocent as a child 
deporting vision...
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Categories: intermissions, addiction, dream, imagery, night,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Am Tried Tested and Trued-

...All my sins,
All my faults and thoughts
I am tried, tested and trued

All my intermissions
All my ill-gotten decisions
I’ve been tried, twisted untrue

All my wrongs, those bad things I’ve do...
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Categories: intermissions, analogy, appreciation, forgiveness, happy,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThe Eulogy

...this is it I mean I often wondered 
how it would be written and who 
would write it would they remember
me who I was the great things
 
I've done or just shallow 
forget me nots of things I wis...
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Categories: intermissions, love, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberHappening 143 Ear Candy

...tempo
  so loud
so
   frantic
    fast
     furious:
the
calm
    quiet
        ...interludes..
..intermissions..
    ..then..
...sleep

inspired by Ravel waltz noble...
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Categories: intermissions, inspirational, music,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberPeter Parker the Spiderman

...A long
                                         A lone 8 legged spider
                                         In a lab stringing down
                                        Oh, there's a teen a...
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Categories: intermissions, boy, celebrity, dedication, destiny,
Form: Heroic Couplet

When Comedians Marry

...When Comedians Marry

Comics juggle three rings when they wed
On trampoline bed they start a circus 
Keep gold bands on hand while thinking zany thoughts  
The comic husband wears two condoms al...
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Categories: intermissions, adventure, celebration, crazy, funny
Form: Free verse

War Horror

...damp mold smell of the earth
slaves of destruction some seven thousand strong
made into moles
tunnels miles, miles long
nine hundred each month on the
backs beaten on to win a war
miles above o...
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Categories: intermissions, anger, betrayal, hate, history,
Form: Free verse

Hearts Depart

...When you die how many people do you think you know will go to the funeral?
When a friend or a helpful hand is hard to come by can’t understand why we just numerals.
The fingers on the hand have a p...
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Categories: intermissions, loss, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Ancient Sins

...Drunk with pride 
the streets are bursting
in self-indulgence.
Who was calling the shots ?

Do you know the words
between intermissions, carry a secret-
till the brazen scoop
finds the hidden meaning...
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Categories: intermissions, art,
Form: ABC

Executive Decision

...This decision, has to come from the top
so as I watch I pray, and pray what I watch
goes this distance these brief intermissions
are nothin but a waste and not every woman
can satisfy what I have...
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Categories: intermissions, faithprayer,
Form: ABC

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