Art Question Is Poems

there's a choice to be made
          when heads are on the block
    ...

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Sunflowers,
cheddar-cheese petals
surrounding seedy-brown-mustard centers,
stand guard over hot summer pavement
like mighty oaks.
Laughing children
run in and out the yellow forest,
slaying dragons,
rescuing damsels in distress,
then pretending to be...

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You can’t progress 
Eyes can see it  
Your eyes show as clear as day 
You learned the art of taking advantage of others 
Maybe...

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Looking out of a window
onto the world, you wonder
if there is an awareness 
that soaks each living cell, 
something that sews together 
all life into...

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Question - Answer 

Background
There is a vacancy for the post of police constable, hence interview is going on.  Radhesham  (R)has gone to appear...

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"say Brian"
 about these
no no's
in your blog"

"Yes"

 "what's wrong with wrap-around
lines?"

 " well,many things but mainly
they are not visually
conducive to read here
as poetry"

"Ok,I see that but what have
you got against those five forms
you list,you know
acrostic,
kyrielle
terzanelle
villanelle
&pantoum? "

 "Nothing against them
as such,they are
good for a learning
exercise,a bit like scales
are important when learning
the piano"

 "So why not in your contests?"

 "For my taste,they are too contrived
and mechanical"

 "Yet you like shape& concrete
verse!"

 " Indeed,my one weakness!
they combine my two true loves
art&poetry"

 "Yet you appear
 to dislike prose& poetry!"

 "I don't dislike them as such,
I just don't like to
read them in a poetry contests"

 "What about political pc &
woke poetry you mention as no no's?"

 " It's not why I visit the site
each day,I get enough of that elsewhere!"

"You seem very dogmatic about your
contests"

"After sponsoring 1160
over the years
I've gotten
to know what I like! "...

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Reality occasionally hallucinates,
      poetry almost always enchants
      our art is to balance the extremes,
 ...

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whims may become a blessing or a curse
pushing one toward certain ruin or worse
drinking from the deep well of evasion
well versed in dark practices of...

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Most never seem to find the time to seize the day,
Because they seldom if ever, ask the third Question,
And frequently fail to seize the day.
Whereas...

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Pacha Mama 

The name means Earth Mother
 
Today she is stylish and humorous 
her big eyes show 
endless love 
emitting positive energy
which invigorates every second

The...

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Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy. 
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae,...

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sweet moonlight glow from 
beaus on rippling shoreline, but 
can this vivid yen linger?

wave of pulsing sighs 
infinite in heartfelt pledge?
timeless dream phase I wonder

Created...

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Piet's
early
abstraction-
did it leave him
blue ?

Piet Mondrian's Evolution c 1910/11...

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Hello. You there,
just one moment.
I have a question,
maybe you are the one…

Years. I’ve Pondered:
Whats the purpose?
The betterment of Mankind?
Our actions rarely reflect it…

Me! Or I?
Is...

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The Million Dollar Question

There are lots of questions

That go through my head

Should I ask them

Or are they better left unsaid

All kind of thoughts

All kind of...

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