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Bowing Out
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denis bruce
| Rhyme |
nuanced, lost love, poems, sad,
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Redemption lost and silenced thanks to Trump 1
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
nuanced, 12th grade, age, america,
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Lazy Summer Days
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Angel Villanueva
| Rubaiyat |
nuanced, beach, seasons, summer, sunshine,
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This Cynic Doth Dispel His Own Kant
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matthew harris
| Enclosed Rhyme |
nuanced, 10th grade, 12th grade,
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Winter's Call
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Angel Villanueva
| Sonnet |
nuanced, beauty, seasons, snow, winter,
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Born,Live,Die
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JG Collins
| Prose Poetry |
nuanced, art,
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Hidden UnDomesticated Spirits
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
nuanced, green, health, integrity, love,
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Tight In Our Love Delight
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john sensele
| Free verse |
nuanced, poems,
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Harvesting What We Plant
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
nuanced, education, health, love, peace,
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Drops of Heaven's Pearl
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Mike Gentile
| Rhyme |
nuanced, beautiful, beauty, heaven, snow,
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Her Elegance Remains
by Mike Gentile
Her tender, delicate limbs
rivaled a young Magnolia
Her every move,...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
nuanced, age, beautiful, beauty, inspiration,
The Fool
by James Inman
The Fool sat listening as her sweet words filled the air
each nuanced syllable sending chills through his body,
each glance cast upon him, a moment of...
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nuanced, loneliness, longing, love hurts,
ALL IN THE ENIGMA
by Brian Strand
vague nuanced tones
within concealed contours
of poetic. form...
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Verse |
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nuanced, poetry,
CONTRASTS
by Brian Strand
timeless
ageless
yet immediate
nuanced
but implicit
patterns
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Verse |
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nuanced, anger,
Human Complexion
by Mike Gentile
What is the human complexion
Much more than color of skin
Fragile, fierce and nuanced
A reflection from within
A million...
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nuanced, humanity, people, perspective,
Weaving Protest Songs and Dances
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Robin Wall Kimmerer,
in Braiding Sweetgrass,
describes the first three woven rows
in process of making an ash basket.
The first Yang row of ecological root structure
is most impossibly...
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nuanced, analogy, earth, health, integrity,
Inside Outdoor Voices
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Just as honesty plants seeds of integrity
so too
vulnerability plants seeds of honesty.
My primary vocation
in this my gay grandfatherly retiring age
is to parent mindbody challenged adolescents
of...
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nuanced, environment, family, health, love,
FullColor Revolutions
by Gerald Dillenbeck
We might
we must
we mightily engage color's radical invitation
toward democracy,
in which black camouflages equal opportunity,
creolizes equivalent enculturations
of diversity's tones and hues
and historic chilling cries.
We could thereby...
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nuanced, color, community, creation, culture,
Villanelle: Whenever Life stamps me down under heels
by T Wignesan
Villanelle: Whenever Life stamps me down under heels
Whenever Life stamps me down under heels
I think of those who died living deaths young
So...
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Villanelle |
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nuanced, character, creation, death, endurance,
Scars
by Angel Villanueva
How often we cry whilst
We stare at our scars;
No, not the physical ones,
But the scars of the heart.
An old photo on the bureau
Of happier times...
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nuanced, heartbroken, love, love hurts,
Digesting Happiness
by Gerald Dillenbeck
What did your grandmother tell you about happiness?
Bottom line,
All you have is your health.
Nothing about money or celebrity status at all.
Yes. That sounds familiar.
And, what...
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nuanced, father, happiness, health, humanity,
How the East was Lost
by Gerald Dillenbeck
The title,
How the West Came to Rule,
disturbs me enough to continue reading,
like wanting to escape a nightmare
but too fear frozen with why it could never...
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Political Verse |
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nuanced, creation, culture, earth, history,
Singing Soul Strong
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Billie Holiday said
The artist of soul never sings a song the same way twice,
the artist never sings the same song twice.
This sounds good and right...
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nuanced, health, heart, muse, music,
Acrostic |
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nuanced, inspiration,
EQUATIONS - for contest
by John lawless
EQUATIONS
Equality’s balance
Quaking at fulcrum’s pain
Unequal forces
Antagonized by
Theoretic nonchalance,
Immune to the folly
Of reason’s
Nuanced
Serendipity.
3/9/2016
submitted to – EQUATIONS – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Anthony Slausen
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nuanced, metaphor,
The Devil's Little Red Book - Rev 2
by Brian Johnston
(A Guide For New Minions)
1. It is much easier to hate those you know nothing about.
2. Always remember that when you kill someone they are...
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nuanced, evil,
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's poem Asai Mugam by T Wignesan
by T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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nuanced, religion, spiritual,
The Time of ME
by Eileen Manassian
I wish I’d never met you
Never looked into your eyes
I wish I’d never tasted
That sweet taste of paradise
I wish I’d never heeded
The deep longing in...
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nuanced, time,
Summer Sunset
by david mohn
Sequestered from mundane oration
Until this spell from Earth’s rotation
Meanders from my frozen gaze.
Melting clouds in pastel plush,
Evanescent waning rays,
Recant my vision’s wanderlust.
Slivered shards of ruby...
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nuanced, sky, sun,
Earth
by david mohn
In frozen space there spins a marveled sphere
On balanced perch with fettered care, aglow
An artful system shields a fragile show
And skillfully adjusts...
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Categories:
nuanced, earth, environment,