Carnival Night Was Special
...Carnival Nights Poetry Contest
Robert James Liguori
There was a special carnival set in my memory
Rides, games, and food, cherished, and a prelude to our first kiss
And a second date where we w...
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Categories:
montages, beauty, cute love, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Young Boy and the Sawtooth, Lyrics
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The reality be told, it was not long past,
Flabbergast by an unfold from my mind’s vague vast,
In reflections of the accounts of my youth,
Echoes formed, all claiming to be truth.
Must be fab...
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Categories:
montages, god, memory, mental illness,
Form: Lyric
The SAG Awards
...It’s fun to watch Awards shows,
Though they’re shallow and they’re trite –
Stars all gathering together
For an ego-boosting night.
Yet the SAG Awards montages
Showing actors at their start
C...
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Categories:
montages, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Etched In Stone
...This or That, Vol 30 Poetry Contest
Edward Ibeh
As soon as my eyes cleared from the tears
I could see that his body and soul were long gone
He layed frozen in time
Lifeless, naked and so...
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Categories:
montages, death, memory,
Form: Free verse
Among the niche
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I felt tears trickling down. After so many years. All persevering truce is a magnificent allegory , measuring minuscule salt portions with a grandiose precaution. The immediate call will be the las...
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Categories:
montages, care,
Form: Prose Poetry
Others
...They don’t care,
if your monthly car, mortgage, utility bills,
credit card payments, a loan you’re paying back
your father inlaw has always been on time,
or if.
You didn’t see the no parking o...
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Categories:
montages, life,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Moments
...Memories can become blurry, over time,
like underdeveloped photographs,
or incomplete, like sunlight through blinds.
Our lives move ever forward,
like the inflexible patterns of stars.
Once ...
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Categories:
montages, parents, student,
Form: Free verse
Illusions
...ILLUSIONS
the largely
forgotten
chaos
of moving
creativity
proclaimed
the sporadic
in
a series
an innocuous
free spirit
voiced
lively
with vitality
in
intuitive
concep...
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Categories:
montages, poetry,
Form: Other
Eclectic Collect It
...collections show facets to me
assorted pieces hail history
recollections kept deep inside
where irrational follies hide
motley montages, memories
my collections, things that please
miscellane...
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Categories:
montages, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Roll Credits, The Saw-Tooth
...The reality be told, it was not long past
Flabbergast by an unfold from my minds vague vast
In the reflections of the accounts of my youth
As several echo’s formed claiming to be truth
Must be f...
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Categories:
montages, hyperbole, memory,
Form: I do not know?
Lickety Split
...Lickety Split
Life is a vessel
Inside my mind
Creeping along
Knowingly
Elan is over when the sails topple
The wind ceases
Youth, and lulls old age
Such is the ascent and descent
Press...
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Categories:
montages, allusion, beauty, journey, sea,
Form: Acrostic
The Daze of a Bitter Heart
...The Daze of a Bitter Heart
dare you blow away
fluttering your dear eyes at me
i threw my heart and missed
life's a journey through each breath
though i tried to be sweet
dough rises for the b...
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Categories:
montages, for her, heartbroken, sad,
Form: Lyric
Fractured Mosaics
...We are merely montages, a mélange of endless stardust - -
Finessing poetry 'round melodic sentiments,
nuances manifested 'neath fractured mosaics of entities'
indwelling harm...
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Categories:
montages, imagination, introspection, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pea Is Not a Pee Nor a Pi
...A twirl in a whirl or a curl is neither a six foot pie or a girl. Spinning wire into gold is not wise. And dancing is best performed to giant octaves. Tissue boxed coverage can be very flakey. Flamma...
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Categories:
montages, basketball, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Montages of Memories
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Let us put together a montage
Of aromas…In our minds
Perhaps of Juicy Fruit gum
Perfume, sweat or of Roses
Of rain on hot pavement
Of tar, surf and the Seaside
Of candies, pastries ...
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Categories:
montages, emotions, imagery, memory, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
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