Ostensible Poems

Premium MemberMINDSCAPES made manifest

...landscapes
  inside
 the mindseye

thoughts
 pictured
in
reresentations
  topographcal
terrains
in prospect

elaborate
exotics
  artfully
  engineered

in

  ostensible
outlooks
...
...
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Categories: ostensible, art, introspection,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberParadigm Of Shape Shift

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For the maneuvered inducement 
of the compulsive being,
defined by the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness,
configuring the personified convoluted identity,
changes in the self-devised pa...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, image, motivation,
Form: Free verse


Lessons From History

...Lessons From History

When Hitler was voted into power
He scraped in (voting was a shambles),
But he knew it had come, this was his hour,
And so he took one of his biggest gambles.

He knew hi...
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Categories: ostensible, political,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberMetamorphosis

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In the ostensible show of life’s drama,
enactments perfected with the labor of passion,
aureate the sequel created by metamorphic alchemy.
The surreptitious shift from one actor to another, 
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, change, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberParadigm Of Contrast

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For the contrived inducement of fixated being,
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness, 
the personified indented identity,
changes in the self-devised palette 
of metamorphosed color mélange,
w...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, change, life,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberBlack And White

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For the schematic inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of identity
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon 
paints the shifting faç...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, color, confusion,
Form: Free verse

God Heaven

..."pursuit of God & Heaven"

 In pursuit of God and heaven,
Wandered left and right, 
Top to bottom, earth and sky,
A glimpse of God all I wanted;
Higher I flew, deeper I swam, 
All I felt was t...
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Categories: ostensible, betrayal, religious, society, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMixtures An Open Form

...MIXTURES
instances
of
ostensible
 exertions
with
traditional
certainty

expected
    overtly
resolve
  forsaken
embedded
 in
 treasured
 possessions
&
 perspectives

sophisticted
...
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Categories: ostensible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShape Shift

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For the maneuvered inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of uniqueness, 
the personified indented identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the con...
...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, identity, life, mirror,
Form: Free verse

The Not Quite Sonnet of Not Quite Success

...The Not Quite Sonnet of Not Quite Success

Play by the rules, or at least the principles
Then you’ll make a difference
Shake off the praise with diffidence
And yet it ends of ostensible

Maybe...
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Categories: ostensible, writing,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberShapeshifting

...In the manipulated incentive of compulsive being
The transmuting concept of uniqueness called color
Changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange
While conjured chameleon shapes the human e...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, change, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Old Nigerian Politicians

...I fought to be at their conference,
Wanting to make out the difference 
Of people of believed deference:
Men long fond of being at the top
And clearly humans one can’t just stop:
Actors we would...
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Categories: ostensible, character, class, cry, people,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberStilled Life a Pictorial Genre

...floral fluidity 
     disclosed 
in fragile beauty

artifacts announced 
                in allegory
a semblance 
     of stilled life 
ornate 
yet commonplace 

enjoyment ancient&modern 
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Categories: ostensible, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Morbid Fascination Mine As Covid-19 Pandemic

...Morbid fascination (mine) as covid-19 pandemic...
foments rampant monopoly on bedlam

Wreaking ball (his stick) havoc (think ostensible
civil war scale not seen since Vietnam),
whereby microorga...
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Categories: ostensible, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMetamorphosis

...The transmuting concept of identity called color
changes on contrived palette inventing color mélange,
while conceived chameleons crawl on human faces.
In the ostensible show of life’s so-called d...
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Categories: ostensible, analogy, color, identity,
Form: Free verse

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