Stamen Poems

Where is My Hannah Arendt?

...A make-up artist?  Um … no thanks.
That’s not my kind of courtship caper.
I want the girl who wrote a paper
on Massachusetts’ failing banks.

You can keep your belly-dancer.
The nimbleness that...
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Categories: stamen, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberleader of the garden band

...with a yellow trumpet nose and orange stamen
the lovely daffodil lead Michigan’s floral parade
always the first flower to push through to March
natural leader of the garden band...
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Categories: stamen, garden,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberOne Thousand Flowers

...Let one thousand flowers bloom
But choose one to your liking
What a beautiful watercolor loom
Where we can intertwine our lightning
The sepals must unfurl subtly
(then supplely) handle the pisti...
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Categories: stamen, analogy, flower, metaphor, sensual,
Form: Quatrain

STEEL AND SILK

...My love like steel and silk
      cuts through you 
            splutters your blood
                watermelon juice down a throat

Wipes it with yellow silken ribbon
             for you to s...
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Categories: stamen, 12th grade, emotions, extended
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMountain Speaks

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A Matt Calliri Contest: Are You A Mouse or A Mountain
18 June 24
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Comes the morning fog
sprawling on my territory where northern glens dry from rotten stubble and mess of debris... ...
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Categories: stamen, feelings, mountains,
Form: Narrative


SUNFLOWER

...Sunflower

I am a sunflower, tall and proud, standing tall in your garden,
My petals are bright yellow, like the sun shining above,
My stem is strong and sturdy, with leaves that dance in the bre...
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Categories: stamen, animal, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberGarden Queen

...Garden queen wore her florals like a dress
They swirled around in the morning sun
Shaking off their slivers of warm dew
The produce watched in amazement
Wishing they had petals and stamen...
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Categories: stamen, garden,
Form: Blank verse

PassionFlower

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                Tickle stamen dances with the dew.
Released, scent in the air,
fragranced sweetly K-new.

Bubble your brew of pheromone v-aperture

My attention from your look of capture ...
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Categories: stamen, art,
Form: Ballad

Cyber Life

...CYBER LIFE


My stamen a purple flare of Light
lit from Galactic Sun
igniting me for an hour or a day 
a week or month, who knows ?
Portholes open ever so slightly 
     Time truly an illusio...
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Categories: stamen, courage, deep, environment, kiss,
Form: Free verse

Immaculate

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"Immaculate"

I’d like to write something 
beautiful for once,
divinely dripping with honey
and milk that washes white 
like stamen juice over the uncut,
the bees all com...
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Categories: stamen, muse,
Form: Narrative

Arrow In My Quiver

...Now that you walk the earth, 
we await your story dear child

Were you sometimes seated in there 
in a floating dream curving a path 
like our favorite flower, baby's breath,
glistening in morn...
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Categories: stamen, 12th grade, angel, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMusk Hibiscus

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      Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
      Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly 
      Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
      Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully ...
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Categories: stamen, change, color, environment, gender,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Head Is a Bowl

...I have a bowl for a head
I have a bowl for a head
Hollowed out for flowers
You'd think I'd be dead 

I hold my soul in a lotus
My soul is in a lotus
My soul is a redhead
As you already notice...
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Categories: stamen, crazy, flower, humor, insect,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBipartisan Images

...There remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,

Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,

About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering ...
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Categories: stamen, games, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberPlants Having Fun

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stamen spurt pollen like sparks from live embers
florgasmic release from hot, swollen members

flowering sexpots that make noses run
viewed in this manner, just plants having fun
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Categories: stamen, spring,
Form: Couplet

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