Short Bantered Poems

I recanted ever knowing Love's quotient,

Over me had Cupid never distilled Love's potion,

My staid lips never bantered Love's discourse,

While stoic mindset made terms of endearment no recourse.

My posture belied that of a court jester,

And sensory images could not my emotions' sequester.

Desire, passion's impulse, became a muted feeling;

And Hope, residing in Despair's harbor, offered little healing....

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Reverse Polarity

Linage totally broaden,
Spun before the darkness;
Nothing be closed bantered-black,
Horizontal dismissed toggle;
Lists topsy-turvy tracks,
Vertical crevices

Lever rests supported pivots,
Supported cryptic; 
Representation essential role,
Bi-polar toll;
Black darkeness reverse polarity;
Now of this is clear to me?

7/17/23
Reverse Polarity Poetry Contest
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The corn has ripened.
With it is the wizened laughter of a
Mirthless age, showing ashy teeth
Of dappled cowries.
A flavescence so bantered by the courage
Of wilting bloom!

Sadly, sea waves truss the feet of
Burning skies, loosening the tongues of beaches,
Which, with ague, recline on cold, cringing currents.

Old cats mourn the fall of strafed pillars
Burrowing through silt-buried kennels re-grassed for the
Salutation of new vistas....

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Poems are exploding out of my mind field
Like bullets ricocheting in lots of directions
Once they leave the shoot I have no control

Ideas are bantered about unlikely, unbidden
Un-coaxed, spontaneous out-of-control missiles
The same poems that have been imploding in my dreams

I ask my muse, do you need my help?
She dances and laughs, kicking around ideas 
Seriously, I say. Can I do anything?
She smiles at me and I hear 
Not your circus, not your monkeys.
I begin to type…....

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