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Unsurprisingly Poems - Poems about Unsurprisingly

Dear Inspiration
...Dear Inspiration, If you were a person and had a name, I know just who you’d be, because whenever I’m in her presence, she utterly and totally, but somehow unsurprisingly, inspires me. ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, city, crush, for her,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member thin fractures
...Thoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things. Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inv......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Predictable, yet --
... High-brow met low-brow Arrogance was predictable unsurprisingly ineluctable ~ thoroughly unelectable ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, confusion, language, political,
Form: Political Verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky... Despite being a nineteen year old bride she wed Boyce Brandon Harris half a decade her senior, (where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes) during the mont......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, america, anniversary, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Symphony
...Sometimes, always, & rather unsurprisingly, I start to wonder… why...my heart cannot explain, the corporeal notes, of music, in just a droplet, of rain.......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, confusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
...Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005 (untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935) I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday of dear ole mom, who s......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Not Quite Ready for Prime-Time Than-Baukery
... ~ Not a contest entry, unsurprisingly... ~ Captain Woodough He coulda won ~ Shoulda, 'Buddha!' * _____________________________ ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, success, word play,
Form: Than-Bauk
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches
...Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell bursting forth with such might courtesy cooking under pressure analogous to volcanic upswell, fo......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets Vi
...Poems for Poets VI Caveat by Michael R. Burch If only we were not so eloquent, we might sing, and only sing, not to impress, but only to enjoy, to be enjoyed. We might inundate the ea......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Poems For Poets Iv
...POEMS FOR POETS IV PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, poems, poetry, poets, political,
Form: Rhyme
Poems About Poets Viii
...POEMS ABOUT POETS VIII PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other wanna-be “intellectuals” who miss the main point of real poetry, which is to connect with readers via plea......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, class, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
...Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005 untimely death sentence ordained approximately six months prior to mother dearest celebrating her seventieth birthday, though the ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, absence, age, anniversary, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Essentials
...ESSENTIALS visual language   with explicit  traces    of  experience eschews   categorisation    limited only  by number of the little  &   defunct freedoms  of a subliminal  kind ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, poetry,
Form: Other
Premium Member The Day I Met Jesus
...A summer afternoon, I stepped onto my study porch's to go to lunch. A Hispanic-looking man was standing there waiting for me. I said hello to him, and thinking he needed some assistance, I said, “Are......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, faith, religious, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Blast From the Past
...roe roe roe your boat we got a leak ~ right to choose looks really bleak very unfairly terribly scary ~ wades back the hanger technique New World Order Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert ......

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Categories: unsurprisingly, abortion, perspective, women,
Form: Monoku

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