The Halusinating Toreador by Salvador Dali - 1970 Contest 1302
...Standing in front of this enormous masterpiece,
Seeing his life story as the layers release.
I wasn’t warned to expect a wonder so rare.
I guess I expected a melting clock here or there.
Venu...
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Categories:
toreador, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
TAXING THOUGHTS
...TAXING THOUGHTS
Let us hide behind a litany of lunacy
Of gods and Gods, prophets and profits
Does it do any good to feed the hungry
When we are the cause of the hunger
To take money from t...
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Categories:
toreador, words,
Form: Couplet
Fiesta
...It was a strange sort of day
A Heavy treacley sky
That seemed too thick
For any bird to even try to fly.
The city lay in waiting for
Celebrations to begin
The Fiesta of Fiestas
Days of mil...
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Categories:
toreador, celebration, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Psithurism
...There was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires and spindles lash...
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Categories:
toreador, extended metaphor, fate, fire,
Form: Elegy
Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
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“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins”
The womb
is scooped like
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost gar...
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Categories:
toreador, muse,
Form: Narrative
Ruby
...Ruby
Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils
in a 'White' school
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.
It was November 14th, 1960 when six year old Ruby sa...
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Categories:
toreador, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
...Groundswell Of Emotional Blessedness
Ebullience exudes from mine every pore
courtesy festive mood in the air,
thus acknowledgment to the following:
thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Faceboo...
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Categories:
toreador, adventure, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Ambitions
...He wanted to be a Toreador
He’d bought a suit of light
He practised with his mother’s cape
Nearly every single working night
He could perform The Veronica
With a certain style and grace
Alway...
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Categories:
toreador, adventure, career, destiny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Frivolity Finale
...Finally leaving the stage after
Twenty seven encore calls
A huge sense of elation as
The last curtain finally falls.
There’s all the media interviews
That she has yet to face
Then perhaps sh...
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Categories:
toreador, art, celebrity, culture, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Frivolity, Performance
...There’s an air of excitement
Amongst most cultured of Spain
Centred around a little hamlet
On the Andalusian Plain.
They are arriving by the plane load,
Helicopter, and even limousine
For the...
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Categories:
toreador, art, culture, dance, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Increase In Head Size
...Increase In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when you...
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Categories:
toreador, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
...(thank you All Poetry, COSMOFUNNEL,
Facebook, Hello Poetry
Poetry Soup, Tumblr,
et cetera global friends).
A network of cherished kinships allied
forged, and linkedin analogous
to union of g...
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Categories:
toreador, absence, angst, anxiety, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Foreigner
...Let me sing a foreign song
To the hears of my foreign friend
Let me dance with foreign moves
To the beat of my foreign art
She said she believed a foreign friend
That came far from a foreign l...
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Categories:
toreador, love,
Form: Ode
Groundswell of Emotional Blessedness
...(thank you All Poetry, Facebook, family
Poetry Soup,... et cetera global friends.)
A network of cherished kinships allied
forged, and linkedin analogous
to union of groom and bride
thru electr...
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Categories:
toreador, appreciation, blessing, desire, flower,
Form: Ballad
Matador
...The Matador
I was thinking of taken the bus Seville
But don`t know what to do when getting there
Unless I run into a female Toreador
I once met in Seville she was good at killing things
She h...
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Categories:
toreador, absence, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Blank verse
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