Long Sense of taste Poems

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Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...

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Sight, imagine if you had no visual awareness
What’s more detrumental,than constant darkness
But not knowing are you really indoors or outside
If you could not see relying on someone for a guide

Hearing, the rhythm of a beat...

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Our eyes amazing used day and night
We use when gazing, but having no sight
Being in constant darkness, relying on a guide
No visual awareness are you indoors or outside

The sound of a beat, the rhythm is...

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Am I a waiter or a warrior, a visionary, or wall watcher?
Am I a strategist or fighting activist?

Sometimes, I feel that I'm just a nesting dove.
Perhaps at any given season, I'm all the above.

If we...

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"Once upon a midnight Poe"

Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant vast 
I lay the Gin and Tonic by the bedside...

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Once upon a time, I saw a Candy List of more than forty types of candy.  And would you believe that people were actually invited to enter a contest to pick at least 10...

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Being sensual isn’t necessarily about sex.
I recall a night of such immense innocent delight
that all my senses -heightened- far exceeded
my teenage expectations of romance.

My sense of sight had already been triggered
from the moment I first...

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Perfection's never something, 
You can capture oh so well. 
But her beauty burned like gazing, 
At the fires that burn in Hell. 

And people they would beg of her, 
"Let me capture you in photograph."...

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The Almighty has created me an angel.
The mindlessness in me has changed me a devil.

When I have a beautifully sensitive nose,
Why am I unable to smell a fragrant rose?

My sense of taste has been, preciously...

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We have five basic senses…which we use daily without thinking about them much
There’s seeing and hearing and tasting and don’t forget…smelling and touch.

Our senses are interconnected…into our life they’re totally infused…
but occasionally we’re asked..hypothetically
If we...

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Flan
 
The perfect dessert for me.
For it has the perfect texture , so consistent throughout.
It's gelatinous yet doughy body that is so sweet to the soul , tongue and mouth.
So beautiful and understating  just...

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I strain against the rising tide
    But I find no solace there.
My only hope for some success
    Is to turn to fervent prayer.
Now you may think it childish
 ...

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(08/10/11)

I wanted to do something different today
I didn’t know what to do, or even what to say.

I had a feeling deep inside- that made me
Want to scream “ I’m alive”.

I looked around at all the...

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What's cooler and juicier
Than a long-striped rime of green,
Whose internals are fortified with
An explosion of mesmerizing desire?

Or a total circle of green without stripes,
Protectively enclosing the best of eats,      ...

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When you left
O beloved!
I renunciated all that I had.

My ego, My pride
My love, My self
I gave up all that belonged to me.

There is nothing in my life,
More valuable than your companionship.

No treasure can make me...

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I dare say that there are myriads of gifts that I could freely give
with loads of confidence and joy that you'd happily receive.
They'd be gifts I could freely give as I have freely received.
Not one...

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I never got to meet her, but she left me with inspiration.
Perhaps I will never meet her, but I was impressed.
Inspired enough to give her a face, a poetic place.
Impressed, because I felt the presence...

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spider eater, gotta special bond 
spider-eating, one by one 
feel them squish on the tongue 
love the taste of the numbing venom 

cockroach eater, one under thumb 
roach-eating, oh what utter fun 
crawling around inside...

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Boredom. 
Is it ever truly felt?
Would it be that nothing at all causes it?
Could it be that boredom only comes into existence
when your mind is gone?
For even if things around you seem to bore you,
There...

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I sit and I think of you
Think of how it would feel being close to you
I wonder how it'll feel to make you laugh and see you smile
How warm or cold it would be in...

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Take a look in the water
Put your ear to the ground
Who’ll be there to help you
When they come to shut you down

Shut you down
Shut you down
Shut you down
So who’ll be there to save you
When they...

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The only problem I find with you 
as other people apart from not only
just me

Which has been brought up and mentioned
once or twice before

Is that you seldom seem to able to know
where to draw the...

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Imagine all those things we love so well -
the scent of sweet perfume or baking bread -
have disappeared; we’ve lost our sense of smell,
and with that loss, fond memories have fled!

We must learn to adapt...

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all by myself cause you left me,didn't matter to you       i don't believe in chains so i'll just take the pain cause i know it's coming,the pain that is.here...

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Let no-one say that love has gone, diminished by a changing world
    Where hope and aspirations grow, not stunted by depression 
    Let love be true and open minded...

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