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Mezzanine Poems - Poems about Mezzanine

Causality

...What is this void you try to fill,
A void empty yet stuffed with society's swill,
Stark emotions driven by dopamine,
Scrounging for joy on a subconscious mezzanine,
Started all by a demented serp...
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Categories: mezzanine, anxiety, christian, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChapter 138 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: New Triplet ADDITIONS

...Date:   May  2050

Damian returned home early morning 
Back from another visit with Dolly. Still
Early misty May morning another
Dawning. 2050! The newborns triplets were
Sleeping. Damian was p...
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Categories: mezzanine, beach, child,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberA High Road

...Today my thoughts have moved
    To a higher altitude.
Where the air is crisp and thin,
    Providing a fresh attitude.

The mountainous terrain blends
    Both beauty and grace.
While reachin...
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Categories: mezzanine, change, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Katydid's Last Song

...The warm hour after sunset in summer
Has long passed
So fast from these trees

In between
Just before the first freeze

Katydid clicks with half her strength
In the not-quite-right October su...
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Categories: mezzanine, autumn, betrayal, change, courage,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLike the Eagle and the Hawk

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwoxOpnN7g

Unceasing peace and calm arriving on the wings of twilight 
brushed hymns quietly strung on golden harps by heaven's
mezzanine: 
Plush dreams luxurio...
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Categories: mezzanine, appreciation,
Form: Narrative



Mountain Meaning I - Prayer of the Hawk

...I sit under the trees

Later
My neighbor said
“I enjoyed watching you pray.”

“What do you mean?”

“You sat there so still
Head tilted up for a very long time.”

“I suppose so
But actuall...
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Categories: mezzanine, bird, earth, soulmate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Ponder

...Elephantine
Slow motion measures
out of time
in pace
Great go-between
grows notions
in lines 
and space
Eglantine
embows fragrant pleasure
springtime's
embrace
Mezzanine
bon mot for half...
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Categories: mezzanine, nature, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTriskaidekaphobia

...Triskaidekaphobia

And so, you have “Triskaidekaphobia” on your mind.
Indeed, fear of the Number “13” does have a real and
a certain palpable feel and meaning for people who
harbor this particul...
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Categories: mezzanine, allusion, culture, fear, history,
Form: Narrative

Beauty Queen

...Muddy shoes beside her bed
Thoughts of you inside her head
Sheets that smell of gasoline
Been a long night for the beauty queen

Light flickers from a distant fire
Ask for the truth, she'll be ...
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Categories: mezzanine, crazy,
Form: Rhyme

Ariel

...Ariel



From my mundane mezzanine I peer into the waning light,

My charcoal heart beats slowly, yearning to ignite



As the sinking sun seeps gold and red upon the wooded crown

I feel...
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Categories: mezzanine, fantasy,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Subterranean Homesick Blues Again

...Dan's on the mezzanine 
asking where the mayor lives 
I'm on the dole line, 
wondrin bout conservatives 
The man with the leg cramps 
boot camps wheel clamps 
says they cut his food stamps. 
L...
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Categories: mezzanine, satire,
Form: Lyric

A Second Fireless Room

...Synthemesc candelabras ache hyacinth desire till woven floors
macabre phoenix grown on veiled crucible vines, dragonflies now
    inhabit counter-clocks I've forgotten seer dust ponders hewn salama...
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Categories: mezzanine, longing, mirror, surreal, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Fading Stars

...This amber sky misted with periwinkle,
Daydreams close their eyes and grow,
These stars fade like the air we breathe,
Beyond my hopes of wishes yet seen,
Inside the stars will surely still shine,...
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Categories: mezzanine, deep, hope,
Form: Free verse

The Redline

...My room at the Hyatt 
Smelled like my ex-wife
She didn't have oodles of class
Or wasn't overly fancy
So, it must be that aroma of 
Almost masking what had
Taken place the night before
We greet...
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Categories: mezzanine, baseball, chicago, humorous, sports,
Form: Free verse

Building Site

...Happy family on the billboard:
mother, father, darling child;
this prime apartment their reward
in modern geometric style.

Two bedrooms, one on mezzanine
with en-suite bathroom, air con cooled...
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Categories: mezzanine, society,
Form: Didactic

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