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"topical" poems

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SelfiesThere's an awkward thrill I feel / like wicked-wet rabies – / Oh. Ah. Oh.

@httphellopoetryramona-argo52

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Self reflectionHolding on, / With the smallest glimmer of hope, / Finding ways to fight, deal or cope,

@freeingthemind23

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Shock Collarthe barker in charge / is sniffing markers / & the dog's the one

@soldamerican-24

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Re~Regarding Only Love Poetry (olp)Of all my misnomers, / Mistooks of arrogance, / To think I could career careen

@onlylovepoetry38

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Villanelle (Walking wounded)I have a wound that only trust will heal, / a scab encrusted on my bleeding soul. / Your eyes will tell me how much to reveal.

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Private Jokes and a Polka Dot DressYou measure in / vast spaces that my memory fills / Revolving.

@westley-barnes40

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A Shadow Will Follow Wherever You GoNight beckons to strange people. / Actually, if you can accept this premise, / then the mind makes everyone strange.

@joseph-valle53

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Melbourne Cup DayYes, it's the racing carnival, / Fashionistas so topical, / Significance trivial,

@julie-grenness20

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tv panels etc.I listen to the words of tv hosts / trying – or maybe just pretending – to analyze / topical issues of the day in depth

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RhetoricYou had to be me / talking shit about Aristotle / then finding him in the poem on the next page.

@christopher-robin-knorr45

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Inane InnuendoIsn't it a pity that, / what she and I have / might be a

@ShannonSoeganda24

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Why Ask WhyWhy ask why I like your poem? Be courageous in your ideas and ideals. Be confident enough to know that your work is true to your vision. Artists of all kinds, but especially poets, are the philosophers and prophets of their generation. A revelation does not passive-aggressively seek to be worthy. It just is. Revelators, in the converse, often are compelled to seek praise with false humility via the age old pretentious depreciation of the value of their work in order to reap praise, which is the expected polite response. It is a waltz I choose to sit out. I feel it is less than honest and a disrespect to the poet and the poem to revel in such frivolity. Write for the sake of revelation, not for the accolades of topical praise. It is no business of the poet why a poem strykes chords with a reader. Simply allow it to happen. Talent and truth are not always equatable, nor are beauty and integrity always comparable. In the heart, a poet knows he is a poet. By the very construct of your words, Poet, may you be the caster of many spells. Thank-you for sharing a bit of yourself with me. I bid thee Love and Light.

@cecil-miller15

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A Poem for---Dear... / This haphazard poem was written solely for you / Matterless, what you came garbed in

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OrangeOrange orange everywhere / Orange orange in the air / I’m given an orange despair

@andrew-rueter95

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God's own Truth@---@---@---@---@---@ / Trying to use / **willpower**

@SoulSurvivor16

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A Better PlaceI read eulogies from time to time / to pass the time, I find in some rejected newspaper. / The language is foreign, for I am

@darrell-wade-elverum67

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wrappedIt’s December, it’s foggy and rainy, but that fits. Of course, a rainy Saturday means gathering in the common room with my roommates and watching either “The Hunger Games” or “Twilight.” Leong’s never seen Twilight, believe it or not, what are they DOing in China? We were explaining that It’s ok to talk through Twilight because it’s completely senseless. Yeah, good times. / We got back from Thanksgiving break, and we had to hit it - grinding to squeeze half a semester into 18 days. It’s a cornucopia of pressure. Yes, we’ve hit the books, but we’re still us. / Here’s a question: What’s the first season in December? “Spotify wrapped” season! EVERYONE has Spotify and once a year you get a summary of your listening habits. The reports came out this week and it’s all people are talking about. Comparing their lists, artists, tastes. Those lists say a lot about someone and it’s ok to not have taste, we should normalize it.

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Ash-manthe cigarette smoke hang in the air like / tropical transpiration. / dancing, dipping, she hung on to him tight.

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don't thinklate nights / the blinding light / of the computer

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and then what?the random onslaught of / typical words and / topical themes abounding!

@jeffrey-robin40

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#24spent an entire month in the hospital / and not once did i see a toothbrush / or my wounds anointed with a topical ointment

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TopicalHappy fathers day / For the memories we've shared / To the ones we will go onto create

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Body ArtThe most topical color / The biggest sigh / The faintest regret

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weepit’s the sensations / that are most satisfying / an almost painful pressurized dance

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Money cannot buy love and happinessSee this is where people get mess up / Until today people believe that happiness can be found by / How big your wallet or pockets.

@racheal-rodriguez20

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