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Varnished Poems - Poems about Varnished

Premium MemberMoonlit Cane Tango

...Under a silver grin of moon, he shuffles past the tide, 
 His cane clicks like Morse code—C-A-N-E, not C-A-N-T—in stride. 
 Salt air tames his hair around the balding head, still stubbornly spry, 
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Categories: varnished, beach,
Form: Rhyme

Murky Mists of Narcissists Trysts

...Varnished Tech Titans
Tattered totems tarnished
Viral tribal bible spiral
Tainted talismans taunted
Cash cows flaunted
Gerontocracy trumps democracy
Theocracy stumps hypocrisy
Autocracy dumps ...
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Categories: varnished, international, technology,
Form: Free verse



London

...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories: varnished, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Wokery, no just jiggery pokery

...Febrile Fog obfuscates palimpsest varnished promises..

Naysayers hoodwinked... deluded players peeling layers..denuded..

Deafening din of our chagrin...

Espoused by rabbles roused by mandari...
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Categories: varnished, health, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAutumn Leaves

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The floral foliage of Fall fuels my pen to flow
Nature's carmine carnage is a crimson condition to watch
Russet quills of the trees float down in myriad shades
Amber leaves levitating like f...
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Categories: varnished, autumn, tree,
Form: Free verse



The engagement

...On Saturday the fifth, I will meet my bride.
By side of alter, and then decide.
If I should flee, or marry thee. 
You may think me cruel, or ungentle of man.
But she’s the type, to toll a man.
B...
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Categories: varnished, break up, engagement, loss,
Form: Ballad

Scarlet French Kisses

...Long for the tender tormenting touch of her slips, a vermillion vice of the abyssal depths that lay within the merest brush of her breath, a zephyr's caress that set aflame the parched arid landscape...
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Categories: varnished, dark,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberDreaming

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Candied dreams, burning away the twilight
Sandcastle memories, taken 
By the softest glow of a Southern moon,
Coloring the thoughts in reflections of sincerest
Beauty, rising like the breathl...
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Categories: varnished, appreciation, dream, faith, fire,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTime

..."Seize the day, then let it go" - Marty Rubin. 

I capture the first chirp of the bird in admiration.
My heart merges with it. My hands fold in adoration.
The color-changing beams of the morning ...
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Categories: varnished, life, time,
Form: Carpe Diem

Grandiosity

...Walking down the street, 
With both eyes closed,
I remain on this path, 
Completely unopposed,
That is the nature of grandiosity,
I may not be alone,
But nobody can touch me, 

Trudging down ...
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Categories: varnished, abuse, character, conflict, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove Letter for April :139:

...Dear Love,
Just a quick note:
You caught me unawares
I thought I lived in circles
You taught me to accept squares
I write to ask for guidance
As straight lines tend to bend
The route we though...
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Categories: varnished, confusion, crush, friendship love,
Form: Ekphrasis

Anti Ode To Voices of Hate and Propaganda

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                   Tlaid like Rash' o stabbings, 
your voice hisses from your podium of Hell. 
Blah blah blabbing.
A one sided Tale, of convenient scapegoats. 
The goats of your usual slaug...
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Categories: varnished, anger,
Form: Other

Premium Member- Jukebox -

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                              Jukebox plays your hit song
                                  Jackpot for just a dime
                                   Jewel in shiny chrome
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Categories: varnished, fun, memory, music,
Form: Pleiades

Old Fashioned Fantasy

...Sauntering into the pub from out of the fog
the varnished wood paneling on the walls
reflecting the amber light from the Edison bulbs
in their Art Deco fixtures hanging overhead
the air scented w...
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Categories: varnished, angst, celebrity, death, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Gossamer Snare

...In pale dawn light, when dew drops glisten,
I listen to a chorus of larks as they chatter.
Scattered about my garden, lilies are in bloom.
Perfumed petals varnished by the fulgent sun.
Spun, is a...
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Categories: varnished, morning,
Form: Verse

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