Short Recognizable Poems

speak recognizable
i love movies and music
sign language time

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A country needs a culture
    a recognizable national vibe

  Without one what you've got
    is a bunch of squabbling tribes...

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every moment a distinction
unrelated to any status quo
startling fresh and new, unfamiliar
recognizable for its unfathomable choices...

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The Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
The most iconic piece from the recent music scene
A masterpiece emotes
By the first few notes 
A recognizable electric composition supreme...

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slicked hair
black leather jacket
ultimate bad boy of the fifties
James Dean
cultural icon
Rebel without a cause
dead at twenty-four
starred in only three movies
recognizable yet today...

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Oh Mara
Goddess of evil
And illusion
Come sit
With me again
Your face
Although it changes,
Is always recognizable
You know that
I can not be fooled
I’ll take what you give me
And spin it into Gold...

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loudly applauded everyone at the sound of our names
high-pitch my talk for a silly sounding seriousness
performing so clutched down on heavy plunging drops 

late aged (bad), still recognizable ol' friend...

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dilly dallying danny deliberately defies
daughter dinahs deliberations
denise does donuts during danny’s debate
roaring, rearing, ready rusty ruminations
rarely recognizable, really riling up dinah’s
dander....

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its wood frame is flaking

the face reflected in the glass
is time-lagged
recognizable only
when molded
to a memory

tomorrow
i will strip the frame down
varnish it
polish the mirror
then sell it on

as a good riddance...

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Hulking African-American character-actor, Bill Duke.
 Hollywood's most recognizable "Who's that dude?"

 The ultimate king of cool, quiet menace on screen.
     In real life, however, he's anything but mean.



Date written: 11/20/2021...

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Damn, that face looks oddly familiar though a bit
Enigmatic too, somehow I cannot seem to nail it

Just where I met her, maybe in school or in some
Arty hangout, or perhaps way back during a prom.
 
Vaguely recognizable yet, mysteriously intriguing,
Unless she is an outgrowth of my wild imagining....

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When I look into some people’s eyes,
I see NOTHING.
Yet in other people’s eyes,
I see SOMETHING…
Distant, yet recognizable,
And I want to get closer.

But when I look into your eyes,
I see EVERYTHING,
And when our eyes meet,
Our souls collide,
And ANYTHING is possible.

In your eyes,
I am healed....

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   Serious poets write fancy sonnets  
     Fear not, entertainers and comedians

   If the clown shoe or nose fits, don it
     The avant guarde says ~ Give us plebians



   __________________________
    Written in comedic pentameter
    sans recognizable rhythm
      Poetic License #54321 - Poof
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North Carolina approaches
And I retreat
To my recognizable refuge
Marked by the stains of memories on the floor
And the broken shelves
Destroyed under the pressure of moving pictures
A closet I can finally walk into
And maybe, just maybe, get lost in
Never to be found
Never to be moved
Yes, I’ll stay
Because I’m not prepared to part...

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Listen to poem:

the years have added
to my patina in ways
that were not pre-approved

they crept up
one saggy whimper
one tiny wrinkle at a time

sly and sneaky
perfidious and insidious 
emphatically inclined

till one day barely recognizable
the years took their toll
adding much to my patina



AP: 3rd place 2023, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on November 19, 2022...

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I've been known to fabricate entire planets,
crafting layers of reality like a masquerade ball.
Perhaps the greatest secret I hold of all,
is that there's no clear distinction to the eye,
between my art and my life,
only a thine blurred linen
where pandemonium of existence bites,
congeals into something recognizable.
But don't quote me on that;
I change my mind with the changing tides....

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The light-stepped girl 
standing before the mirror 
slowly comes to realize 

that the child is a woman is a child. 
It is winter 
and the light is low 

and almost warm through the window. 
This person is between herself, 
recognizable, almost, 

as if she were in line 
with her past and her future. 
For now she is a child-woman, 

a little scared, a little proud, 
a little cold....

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My, the frightfully threatening roll
of the foreign tongue
inexplicable, rapid fire
shrapnel to the unaccustomed ear
proceeding, ever forward
in an unintelligible tirade.

Ears ache for understanding
Eyes strain for common ground
no single sigil or symbol recognizable.

My Lord, to be so alone, so lost
so must we journey, infants all,
landing without fan fair
on distant shores, seeking only
love and acceptance....

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"what strangers know"

somewhere between peace and despair
a stranger gently hears and sees
somehow restoring mind body soul 

elsewhere between harmony and misery
a recognizable someone looks away
ultimately diminishing light and grace

abandon the darkness
embrace the clear
walk with music

someway between phantoms and shadows
shadows are never distant or behind
making freedom of what strangers know

SkyWatcher
05-04-21...

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11/10/12

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A sound of silence veers its head
Staring blankly into obscure delight
A recognizable face appears in the light
Inward laughter—fed

Never heard it this loud before
Something shifts on volume low
The majority has become the foe
Even words—they ignore

No one needs to understand
For all is heard within
All they need is that grin
All else—reprimand...

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My twin sister Carolyn is wildly creative.
She has made me a Lucille Ball purse.
It is fabulous; I love it!

There is a cartoon montage of Lucy all over it.
Many recognizable faces on various episodes of I Love Lucy.
I carried it around to several stores today.

Strangers begged to know where I got it.
I could have set up shop and sold these.
It’s a computer bag, not a purse my sister told me when I called her.
I smiled at the predictability of my twin....

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Behold the marvelous wildflowers!
How they boldly carpet a sloping glen –
Our gift from Earth’s seasonal showers. 

Hardly is the desert recognizable
Come March to an untrained eye when
Spring has announced herself in full

Except for occasional saguaros –
The perennial observers to this annual display –
Perched on the precarious ledge they chose. 

Penstemon and globe mallow are in glee;
Even the palo verdes celebrate
By showering the ground with yellow confetti....

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He arrived on dusty shores
Way too early, it would seem
Skinny and gaunt, left to die
Not recognizable as a human being

The first time she opened her mouth
Something shrill began to sing
No one wanted to listen to her vibrations
So the hole was stuffed with many things

They lived together as one
No family connection to bind them together
Back and forth, out and in, they'd come again
Life birds of a feather

...safe in the ARK

Written by Trudy Schrader on 12-01-2022...

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there is no-thing...
it is vacuum
and foundation
of reality...
we
are the perpetual
want
that holds it together
in some recognizable fashion
that is communicable...
with reserves depleted
and endlessly challenged
we stumble on blindly
perceiving and questioning
a braille reality...
but with symbols and words
we make use of our turds
and through recycling
build this...
something is missing
from winning
for losing
as to how to brake
this...
recycle of poetry
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She could stare at 
that painting forever
like it is talking to her
every stroke so recognizable 

the artist must have been 
stalking her all her life

every line so intimately done
even her thoughts seem to be 
moving in sync 

guess someone eventually 
got pass the little obstacles 
maybe they cared enough to 
look a little deeper 

gosh, the girl in the painting  
looks amazingly just like her

just a little happier 



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