Radical Terza-Rima-Renga-O-Rama!!

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the popcorning bell calls of lyrebirds
glitter in gumshade seams and summer dust,
gliding unballasted by meaning, purest words

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"Let them leave language to their lonely betters
Who count some days and long for certain letters;
We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep:
Words are for those with promises to keep."
- W.H. Auden, "Their Lonely Betters"
 
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When words are imprisoned by fear and mistrust,
held under the tongue or swallowed for good
they rub causing friction, just ripe to combust.
 

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A poem without words is just
a metaphor for musical scores.
When mouths can't spell-out, the heart it must.


Words are more than engines that could
bear the load of crosses and gore
of wars that no one understood.
 
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these same words were used before
light and awful, as bubbles of blood
that shimmer, burst, and sound no more
 

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the rains have come to gift us a flood
frogs hop out, 'croak croak!!'
so grab your boots and stomp the mud
 
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Where opinions have a distinct aroma.
The Welsh weather, and the ground it soaks
are good for the grass thus too for the lamb,
but not us; don't forget your wellies and coat.
 
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While some sing spring a dithyramb
my chores pile up till I can't think,
a brain connection traffic jam.
 

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she wakened to the ringing clink
of chains shuffling outside. headsore
and wool-tongued, she vowed (again) off drink
 
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let's pack the bags and visit the alps
climb the hills and enter some cave
get lost over there and make a sign: 'halp!!'
 

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To join this thread one must be brave
and dare to play the fool
while digging one's own poetic grave.
 

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It should not be assumed,
despite the signs, that the end is nigh
and humanity is doomed.
 

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you smiled at me. i wondered why
it caught me by surprise, but just
as strange: i now brace for a lie
 
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Belief in sacred love is strange.
As a bear devours her cub,
Darwin becomes a fair exchange.
 
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Algonquins bequeathed the name Wisconsin.
"River Running Through A Red Place";
bleeds roads, malls, mansions, a tribe forgotten.
 
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A poem is an empty space
filled poorly, or well? That, my dear,
we'll argue 'til we're blue in the face.
 

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A poem may at first appear
to serve as cork inside your neck -
but red flow-hole is far more near.
 

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can spewing, spitting blame deflect
empty pools of yellowed eyes? No;
a wasted life, a pointless wreck.
 
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Glaciers form from relentless snow.
Break off another piece of me.
Icebergs will melt in indigo.
 
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Who seeks peaceful serenity?
Only the most foolish of fools.
For peace makes life eternity.
 

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newspapers state the final rules
pay the price to spin the tale
black dancing lies in molecules
 
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