Parentheses Poems - Poems about Parentheses

...Pursuing springtime walking sprees beside our dog, beneath the trees, I oft detected some unease amongst the birds and buzzing bees as echoed by flat monodies of clicking, clacking, knocking kne......

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...Her laughter startles the morning air - a flock of starlings scattering from power lines into the cathedral of her collarbones. She moves through rooms unaware of how doorframes arc......

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...Dirty windows and broken hearts, like books left open on the table, On silent streets where morning and night share their last pages, A generation of brave souls, seeking light between the lines of......

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...I wanted to build a skylight in my place. My friends thought it was spurious. So I went and built it anyway. Now the neighbors above me are furious. I got a dog a few months ago, but he doesn'......

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...A semi-colon connects two thoughts together An exclamation mark screams out its cause You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe a comma can give you a pause A question mark begs for an an......

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...David Jones ' IN PARENTHESIS' .( PS- a by the by )......

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...I attended three sermons in a row In the neighborhood church on Jackson. Tear dropped there too, on the quran of mine, sky-blue colored And on the cover of the hymn prayer book, it strangely rh......

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...So many more. Just a sampling of favorites, per contest instructions. For each poet I have included a sampling of titles in parentheses. THREE OF MY FAVORITES Gersho......

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...Tozer, deep - thoughts well explored with- in the realm of man Thankfulness, for what man cannot touch - deep mysteries of an eternal God our speech, no matter how profound cannot reach t......

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...Mindful Startled out of nonchalant light, Wakefulness stands at attention Ignited flame from the eternal candle, Energized vigil of the watchman At the soul’s dawning daybreak Tingling in t......

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...Jesus Shepherd of my fugitive spirit shower “grace,” Emmanuel’s “joy” to hollow “life” in “holy” art, As nail scarred hands I adore in tender embrace. Selfless servant your signature of “fai......

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...Sent home from second grade, a star With glitter all around it Was lying on the table; I was Happy to have found it. My grandson had to write his wish And in his neatest hand, He came up wit......

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...Psycho Cat - IT "In my sabbatical dreams after quarantine" Visions of life run again at full steam A little stiff, a bit arthritic, like "The eerie board walk creaks near the beach of white san......

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...A Reflective Ploy... it is a reflective ploy; on the part of me, when proofreading all this work of mine; and do I really care? that a full stop. don’t! or that commas; are often too many ......

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...There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far, full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary. The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree is never a safe place for you or for me... ......

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