Alphabet Poetry Soup, Part XI
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Angelic
Bardic
Composers
Dole
Everlasting
Fabled
Garnishments.
Heathenistic
Improvisors
Jostle
Kitchen
Ladles.
Metrical Composers
Nourish
Otherworldly
Poetizers'
Quirky
Rumbling
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Categories:
versifiers, green, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Pawn to Silence
...I was cursed with ink
intoxicating blank canvases
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken ebony rose
in satan's grasp,
kneeling on ungod...
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Categories:
versifiers, england, love,
Form: Free verse
Poetizing
...May I state with all humility,
‘Tis not for the faint-hearted
Poetizing requires ability,
Entering a territory uncharted
Sometimes hard to get started.
What calls itself a poem, I ...
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Categories:
versifiers, poetry, writing,
Form: Quintain (English)
Poetry Soup
...A world community like no other, this troupe
Of writers and lovers of insightful poetry
Gathered under the imprimatur of Poetry Soup --
Delightful, inspirational, sometimes contrary
W...
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Categories:
versifiers, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
When I Go Out To Speak
...When I go out to speak,
I mean to be heard,
giving voice to the spoken word.
I am one of many,
one of the chosen few,
of a distinguished crew.
Poets who answered the call,
Wordsmiths, Storytel...
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Categories:
versifiers, character, dedication, poetry, spoken
Form: Free verse
I Hope For the Best
...They are still fighting in the Mideast
Jews killing Arabs and Arabs killing Jews
Civil wars in Yemen and Syria
lead to the death of children
Will out poems change people's hearts?
Let us pr...
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Categories:
versifiers, peace, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Viridity
...Though unlived ages defter poets shall bring,
And blur all rhymes woven in my barren span;
May young pupil-scribes with like relish savor
These yellowing tropes as sworn zealots can.
Despite t...
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Categories:
versifiers, allegory, art, first love,
Form: Elegy
In the Library At Poets House
...I am surrounded by
tens of thousands of
volumes of verse here
Chinese, Japanese ,Jewish and
just about every ethnic group is represented here
Spoke with the librarian
She said she is too b...
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Categories:
versifiers, peace, poetry,
Form: Verse
Acrostic
...Avid versifiers
commingle on this site
rising to the challenge
of contests day and night
seeking an occasion
to ...
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Categories:
versifiers, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
Late Evening Musing
...People pass by and moonlight causes shadows to
appear in the metropolis
Where are they all going?
I surmise that some are going to see family
while others are going to see lovers
A full moon sh...
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Categories:
versifiers, poetry, poets, urban,
Form: Ballad
Verse,Once More
...My health is precarious
But I have a pen and pen by my side
So, once more I make the effort at verse
I have been published even reviewed
So I send out greeings
to all you versifiers out there ...
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Categories:
versifiers, peace, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The White Dove
...I DREW A BLANK CONTEST
Sponsor: John Lawless
I sat and began a journal entry.
Songs of doves with white wings
flying into the night came to my
mind. Do doves fly at night? Unknown
to me, I...
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Categories:
versifiers, animal, day, night, world,
Form: Blank verse
The Better Choice
...Wars will end
when
the combatants decide
to
stop fighting
and attend poetry READINGS
The brave fighters of
this world
are sometimes into verse(Patton was)
The power to wi...
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Categories:
versifiers, conflict, peace, poetry,
Form: Ballad
Fame
...F A M E
Frank Halliwell
Jimboomba, Qld.Oz.
Around me spin th...
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Categories:
versifiers, world, planet,
Form: Rhyme
From the Parting Pages of Shakespare
...Long I left this room of rhymes
Where verses bought my pens
A Price-tool that seems priceless
But full of ink-prices-dress
Where a lord, a noble and a king
Read of the rhymes I bring;
Where t...
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Categories:
versifiers, father, history, me, time,
Form: Narrative
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