Long Fonts Poems

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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I woke up this morning feeling quite relaxed 
Even though the night was rough my sleep was enough
I picked up my jug to fetch some ice from the hotel restaurant
So I stopped at the front...

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"Motherland"

The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,

fingers have a personality and a mind 
of their own, don’t you agree?

the stalwart mind converses with the frivolous fingers 
its stark increduality, considers All above All

they’re incorrigible, those lithe fingers,
like...

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Copyright 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
POETIC LYRICS BY TLH ANDRESS (SWISS FAMILY- THE 'ROYALS')



When YOU...Brew Right!
IS...YOUR...COF-FEE...TEA...OR-JUST-ME?

JUST...A...PACK-AGED...Silly-Old...SMOOTH-DEE/LIGHT!

BROWN/STAINED...'N/BURNED!

GROUND-ED-'N...BROWN!

SPILLED/RIGHT? WRONG?

TOSS-THAT/BITCH...BUM/DOWN!

JUST...Spell-it/RIGHT!

OR-WRONG!

DONE-RIGHT...OR...WRONG!

JUST-WHIP/IT!

360! CIR-CA-LEAN...TOSSED/RIGHT...'n/TIGHT!

ROUND-and-ROUND!

SPOON-IT! CIR-CA-LEAN!

[Brief Musical Interlude]

SIL-VER/SPOONS...AND...ROY-AL/ACES-ALL!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A-TOOT...A-TEET/PUFFIN-HOT!

A...PUFFIN/HOT...DEE-SIGN!

COF-FEE/TEA...OR-JUST/ME?

[Brief Musical Interlude]

Smooth-Designs...Done-Right/OR...WRONG!

A-'HERC'...A-'VEE' [Venus]?

FONTED-NOTES...PENNED-RIGHT...AND-COM-PU-TERED/WRONG!

A Smooth/Dee-sign?

BREWED-RIGHT?

STAINED/WRONG?

Pack-AGED/SIL-LY-'OL-DEE-SIGN!

360? OR-JUST/10th-DEGREE?

Just...BREAK-a-COOKIE...
RIGHT...AND-TIGHT!

FOR...A-FOR-TU/NATE...DESIGN!

TOSSED-RIGHT...A-BAKER'S-13th/DEE-GREE-and/SWEETEST/DESIGN!

CIR-CAL-LEAN-and/RIGHT!

'N-TIGHT...FOLDED/BROWN!

A-LE-GENDARY...CLOTHE...TO/BAKE...TO/CUT-BROWN!

BLACK?

A...NEW/STEP?

A/STEP-a-DANCE!

A...NEW-CLOTHE...TO/CUT-RIGHT/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT!

DOING-IT...RIGHT-OR/WRONG!

HE/SHE...CUT-THAT...'OL-CLOTHE...RIGHT-AND-TIGHT...AND/BUSTED-WRONG!

HEY...'TWAS-IT...RIGHT-'n-TIGHT...DONE/WRONG?

[Musical Interlude]

A-Date...To-Ree-member!

HANDS...so...SOFT!

OR...BURNED/BLACK...AND/BLUE...ROY-AL?

PUR-PAL-LEAN?

ROYAL...DESTINY?

[Teeth] 'FONTS'...OF-IVORY!

3-MISSING?

A...ROYAL...MYS-TER-Y?

[Musical Interlude]

In a Distant Harbor...Old Man Moon...GRINNED-and-SPOUTED!

TEARS-and-FEARS...DOWN!


A/WHALE-SPOUTED!

AND...BLEW-UP!

IT-'TWAS...A-GUSHERS'...13th-DEGREE!

[Briefest Musical Interlude]

And...

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Written: September 30, 2023
Sponsored by: Silent One                   Pick a Colour Contest   

"There is my body,...

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Picking a rose in a garden of Sundays
Calling your name on a broken branch wind
Looking for clover where weeds are not welcome
Walking the bridge till its time to begin
 
Dancing in puddles now filled up...

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Pages turn thin, thin as the plot thickens
Thinning knowledge as ignorance quickens
Spines crack from hunger, hunger for minds
Cracking under pressure of different kinds

Books starve for attention, attention spans wane
Starving for readers in this digital rain
Covers...

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He, She, they, them, their or choices .
I wonder if your world is round or maybe not because probably your mind is cubical , you are a dice, it is as similar as the dice...

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Words on a page, sounds, Mother's calling
soft tones rose from leather tomes sweetly,
through rouged lips they tumble with love.
Lullabies call through the coldest of nights
as frost haloes about the curls, open-hearted,
eager, a child of contested...

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One from the 1850s,
I bought it from a Scotsman thrifty,
on the windswept Isle of Skye,
its browning cover caught my eye,
old paper that’s weathered to tan,
each leaf thick and dry in my hands,
an imperious title-page,
and the...

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i am nothing mere of a mosaic
a broken frame
of what should remain
a whole personality
but it split
and caused me great chaos
i am a mosaic that nobody can piece together
i am a mosaic with random bits scattered...

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The sertraline queen of New Orleans
Getting high on her brandy and coke.
Perched on a bar stool, surveying the scene,
While she lights up another smoke.

Tom Waits is playing on the radio 
“In the neighbourhood”, plodding and...

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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 emotional bridges

That needs to...

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"Triple Helix from the Hip"

Triple helix
stanzas 
strung together

like pearls 
wisdom worn 
and swallowed

like a pill
sweet and 
bitter

they evolve
those others
from their bad dreams

like poetry 

cradling their 
purity in sentences
that speak their godliness

as if they 
have done...

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The wordsmith toils over hot metal fonts in wellsprings
Struggling like a blacksmith to hone and shape 
    thoughts and images into typeface words and poems.
To conjure up meanings from thoughts twisted, prodded,
...

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My Shattered Mind
By Kevin Robey
March 9, 2013

No inspiration, but I’m like stone
Stuck in my resolve in being alone
This anxiety is gripping me, killing me
Cutting the air until I no longer see

I write this down, no...

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Musing on The Muse of Your Words

All the flowers of Epiphany
I have designed and collected
The flowing words through ink 
Came to me
Unbidden and as yet unwritten or encapsulated

They lay sanguine indistinct 
And are birthed in...

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See the map of that
Nineteen sixty seven had 
Visible picture’s woman!

At her wedding or
A mass of first communion?
See her rosy crown? Prayer!

Mona Lisa is
A scroll?! Painted with valid
Fervent ink of different pin?!

Was she mute’s besiege!
Speaking...

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Overly Particular Judges:
What to submit
Only Sonnet form accepted.
Must be a sonnet ( 14 lines - 10 syllables per line.  Rhyme scheme : ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)
Must include all 3 lines as below:
Ginger Beer is...

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This is a contest no ordinary
As you can judge it is about judges extraordinary
Especially the ones who overly judge
About nothing, in particular, nothing at all
They judge simply for the sake of judging
An expertise they have...

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He doesn't hum like the others,
just stays there at his post,
watching his feeder, waiting for the chance
to swoop again upon another
nectar-thirsty bird who dares 
to flutter a wing in the wrong direction.
In territorial defense
he's fast...

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REVISED  CONTEST  RULES


What to Submit?

One original poem on the theme of anything you like. I could specify a theme, 
but if you wish to completely ignore my specification, and are
a personal friend, that’s...

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Regardless of whom is… 


Aching, my pen moves, lines hold in place
words found wandering about my heart
Ink dries with tear drop accuracy, streaked
forming in versed collections of envisioned truth

From the gallery they call, teeth bared
ready...

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One Word #18
Font, Noun, The particular size, weight, and style of a typeset. 

An elegant font that is written out,
But then when you try to read it,
It’s impossible.
I wonder if humans are the same way,
The...

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I was sitting at my computer
All intelligent and nonchalant
When a personality profile test popped up
In the most interesting of fonts

I decided this might be fun
So I clicked onto the site
And right away started answering questions
On...

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