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Purists Poems - Poems about Purists

Premium Member It Is To Be
...the choir chimed in a chorus of rebuke or stones we'd hurl abusing the adulteress's skin shoot your pocket rocks passing judgment comes down like diluvial rains splashing gory-red upon yo......

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Categories: purists, faith, fate, hope, jesus,
Form: List
Premium Member Newport 1965
...Newport 1965 (Or Dylan Goes Electric) This was the dream concert folk was at its peak Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Mary Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian and......

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Categories: purists, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Not of Flowers or Fashion
... Tonight I write not of flowers or fashion Instead, I write of dreams and passions Prithee, poetry purists, please forgive me ~ Not to pretend such potency I cannot see ......

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Categories: purists, dream, passion, poetry,
Form: Couplet
CONTRARY
...CONTRARY A poem personified, it could be me Yet to embrace analysis, I am averse Words should flow at their own pace Precise syllable counts are a disgrace And a volta can be an empty purse S......

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Categories: purists, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Doing the Dogg
...Doggerels, *raunchy rhyme* Are what purists call crap. But who has the time To listen to those sap? We Doggerelists, Rhymers unstable, Are going to persist, Whenever able.......

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Categories: purists, art, humorous, literature, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Leeza
...(Leeza, my roommate Lisa’s little sister, was off-tha-hook earlier this summer) thirteen peach flesh fabuk buster nu-metal priss sexless breasts bitten fingernails dirty babyskin fe......

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Categories: purists, emo, growing up, humor,
Form: Free verse
Where Nights Reign Sans Dawn
...My love of nature began With an awe-struck scan Of skies, how starry strings pan Out to yon of yon, Nights where reign and there’s no dawn. ___________________________________ Tanka |03.06.2021......

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Categories: purists, nature, sky, stars,
Form: Tanka
Ode On Old Virtues Ii
...Let me not play tuneless in today's time, Some purists sure get praised as Gandhian, Yet, crass nevertheless is no more crime, Old values are hailed may be in heaven. Whilst weighing values for......

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Categories: purists, life, truth,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''
...“On the Sonnet” by John Keats If by dull rhymes our English must be chained, And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness; Let us find out, if we must be const......

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Categories: purists, england, fate, literature, muse,
Form: Prose
Prophecy: Listen
...Listen by Immanuel A. Michael (an alias of Michael R. Burch) 1. Listen to me now and heed my voice; I am a madman, alone, screaming in the wilderness, but listen now. Listen to me now, an......

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Categories: purists, america, god, judgement, rose,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Most Wonderfullest
...My brain is one of the most wonderfullest Don't like to brag but gonna open it to tourists So they can observe How I manipulate words Which will surely bamboozle literary purists......

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Categories: purists, allusion,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Let's Do Better This Year
...What’s going on these days~ Is the world flip flopping on its side? It’s the fashion of the day To declare how we’re offended No matter what was said Or what we imagine was intended We’ll put a......

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Categories: purists, anxiety, christmas, holiday, hope,
Form: Free verse
In Dark of Night
...Unending strip of ebony darkness lying lost unseen under moonless black sky it’s beginning and end upon the land lost in black shadows cannot be seen deeper darkness moves within flowing sm......

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Categories: purists, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet 44 'Nobody Wants a Well, When There Is Sadness'
...Nobody wants a well, when there is sadness... A few drops are enough, to bring on rain! The world is full, of sorrow, and of madness! Nobody needs the bottom of the drain... The purists count emP......

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Categories: purists, appreciation, humor, hyperbole, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Honest
... I don't fight for the rules. Fools fight For the right to use tools. Cool nights Might cause fright for ghouls. Jewel light Gives us reason for fuels. Cruel sprites Shed light on shimmering......

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Categories: purists, america, how i feel,
Form: Haibun

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