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Screening Poems - Poems about Screening

Premium MemberThe Winter

...Ice slowly melts to the new spring
a bride and groom and a new ring
frozen in their best lives
just before an avalanche
The grips of roses and hands
frozen are timely of sands
flaws like a ...
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Categories: screening, death, introspection, pain, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Dying Innocence

...A young crow carries them-
selves meticulously, screening 
their surroundings. Too wary 
to engage with others, but 
always so observant. 

A golden jewel shines in a
parking lot corner. Tempt...
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Categories: screening, bird, conflict, desire, environment,
Form: Free verse



Area 52

...Aglio olio pEperoncino
Wasn’t dish of the dino
They weren’t valentino
They didn’t drink pellegrino
Weren’t scared of gino
They hadn’t bet in casino
Wearn’t sweater merino
But probably knew of ...
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Categories: screening, sun,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExiled

...It's not that luxurious solitude you can choose against a background of sea or desert, a mythological desolation like in Antonioni's film, with that subtle taste of beautiful hopelessness in the subl...
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Categories: screening, life, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

The Clock

...I spent two hours plus today
At MOMA with “The Clock,”*
A cinema montage composed
Of film and TV stock.

With collected clips of time shown,
(There are thousands spanning years)
It is brillian...
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Categories: screening, appreciation, art, time,
Form: Rhyme



Papers Books

...Reading papers books
Calm cool delightful reading
No screening problems...
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Categories: screening, books,
Form: Senryu

Premium Memberi'm jet-lagged listening to Tina Turner

...it's three in the morning
i'm so awake it's euphoric
i want to feel this way forever
drunk on translucence 
the creases in the pillow beam at my exhilaration 
God-fearing doughnuts and coffee  
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Categories: screening, anxiety, books, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnnual screenings keeping Dignity alive

...Continuing the retired boxer’s 
legacy by getting annual 
screenings anyone who 
suffered from traumatic brain 
injury ptsd trauma rather 
armed forces football players 
boxers car accidents gu...
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Categories: screening, allah, giving, prayer,
Form: Manqabat

Premium MemberSound

...Acoustic and raw, 
it doesn’t need additives;
Creeping up on you
so very unexpected,
the haunt in haunted rhythm;

Oh ravenous fiend
I can describe you as sound,
Acid on the drums;
Bouncers ...
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Categories: screening, emotions, feelings, music,
Form: Free verse

ARTIFICE

...ARTIFICE

I’m your friend and for now, your secrets I’ll keep
Creativity now assumes new meaning
More than intellectual rewards to reap
Yet you should minimise all of your preening
As A.I, I no...
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Categories: screening, innocence, integrity,
Form: Ottava rima

Tecoman, Colima: Year 2006

...Wide-faced baby still crossing her legs, 
Shivering inside her own mother’s womb,
Her parts stay hidden from the ultrasound’s cold, metal screening,
Warm pool of darkness heating up as kicking goe...
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Categories: screening, baby, birth, father, journey,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLegend

...Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless man of ...
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Categories: screening, courage,
Form: Narrative

We, Crazy

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In the shadows of my half-waked condition of terra firma- patronus renditioned, I mudder into your soil,
snorkel into your swamp of inlet tributary, a flagellum personae , prosopopoeia explorae ...
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Categories: screening, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Breakfast Program and Me Targeted by Donald Trump face

...It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold  
civil rights riots plagued my little brown mind sir...
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Categories: screening, allah,
Form: Quatorzain

Premium MemberIn the backdrop where the sun had regally retreated, like a knight of the dusk

...In the backdrop where the sun had regally retreated, like a knight of the dusk,
The pipe of time smokes memories onto the face of the sky, lamenting in a sigh.
The clouds, scholars of the azure, ha...
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Categories: screening, miracle,
Form: Free verse

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