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Plain Spoken Poems - Poems about Plain Spoken

Always To The Point

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Always To The Point
Miracle Man
4/6/2024

My tendency, is to be a loner,
my comfort zone, the bottom of a rut.
But when others have need I’m a donor,
I’m rough on the edges, a stone ...

Categories: plain spoken, how i feel, me,
Form: Quatrain

Truth

...To be crystal clear and direct,
Without shady shadowy effect.
Straightforwardly, Unmistakably sound,
Plain-speaking plain-spoken profound.
Candid, Frank, Direct, Upfront,
Incorruptible and Blunt...

Categories: plain spoken, inspirational, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Some Men

...some men chant atop mountain tops
while others prowl the garden and hiss
some spin prayer flags to cool the soul
others smile as roses but are venomous
some men live for the sake of others
some ...

Categories: plain spoken, analogy, hello,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Calliope and the Chimera

...Concentric ripples form as I skip rocks in the twilight
As I ponder plain spoken words that became recondite

I detect notes of Frangipani as a sultry sylph speaks
I break bread in ancestral land...

Categories: plain spoken, allusion, appreciation, beauty, muse,
Form: Rhyme

The Eulogizer

...He’s called the Eulogizer
He reluctantly accepts this moniker as our elder
A name for which he feels disdain 
Since it conjures memories of unspeakable pain
 
He's lost a father, mother, sister ...

Categories: plain spoken, death, eulogy, funeral, grief,
Form: Narrative

Persona

...Persona

She lived her life’ wayward ways as she trusted the cover
all in one jagged place dangerously designed from mascara
made up dressed down frozen from illegitimate shadows

Did not fores...

Categories: plain spoken, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Rainbow and Sun

...I speak to you in parables
In this idiomatic riddle filled way
Because I fear the blunt effect
Of being plain spoken
I saw the rainbow and the sun
In the words they uttered
I felt the hot breat...

Categories: plain spoken, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse

Point of Departure

...He refers to himself in the third person,
knows life with no margins or banks,
nor tides, or mention of the day he departed.
it was a day like no other.
They waited a long time and thought about ...

Categories: plain spoken, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse

Good News and Bad News

...An old cowboy went in for his annual medical examination
He was polite, plain spoken, sometimes he would growl
Did not like doctor, hospitals, pretty nurses were alright
He tried to be nice, was n...

Categories: plain spoken, cowboy-westernold, me, old, time,
Form: I do not know?