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Turns of the Tide | Earnest Tilling - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Turns of the Tide | Earnest Tilling

Weeping are the
Breaths of Winter
Thriving is the Sun
And
Budding
Blooming
Bursting to life are the
Flowers
And quickly as they sprung,
They are
Gone.
Petals
Falling falling falling falling falling falling falling
To the soil
Rich with the taste of
Dead leaves
That are littered across the
Floors of Mother Nature
Then sparkle shimmer silver gleam
White winter wonder of flaking precipitation
Covers the wasteland
Barren is is no more, for all the eyes can see are the
Dustings of the snowy substances.
Then
Slush slushy yucky icky ugh
The tears of Mother Nature are
Falling falling falling falling falling falling falling
And
Blink
The bells
The glee of winter is gone
But with the turn of the tide once again,
Smell the sunshine and tickle the breeze
For another world has come to visit
Our winter.

Howard Carter's Expedition (1922) | Joseph Ogbonna - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Howard Carter’s Expedition (1922) | Joseph Ogbonna

I am here on an archaeological quest,
to satisfy many a curious mind’s request
for knowledge on antiques and artifacts
of Egypt’s long extinct historical facts,
in treasured sands buried, like gold mines earnestly
sought for in stories shrouded in mythology.
With a large contingent just as curious as I,
hardly daunted by curses, but with shoulders high,
We went to the field, the sun baking us chaps
to a baker’s delight. With our rumpled maps,
we searched every clue, and were bitten perhaps
by a million flies. Getting relief from sunless skies
in times of fair weather, whilst hoping something lies
in the depths of the hot sands for our very eyes
to see. With my tools by hard work and search worn out,
I brushed to full view, the tomb, brilliantly carved out
of young blue blooded Tut, regally laid to rest.
To my wearied colleagues, I spoke in real earnest:
‘To exhume the past, we are here at last.’

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I Flashed New York | Emily Ramser - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

I Flashed New York | Emily Ramser

I dropped my towel in front of my hotel window
and bared my chest and stomach and thighs
before peeling back my skin and dropping it
on the green and gold patterned carpet, and
the people saw the muscles of my body
twitching and pulsating, moving with each intake of oxygen
before I began pulling them away so that my bones
shone in the lamplight
before I started ripping out my ligaments
and throwing them at the glass,
watching them splatter
into shitty love poems
before I put these things
in my suitcase among
my conference clothes and
mini statue of liberty souvenir
before I asked for a taxi
and then a piece of pizza
at the airport.

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Too Many Idioms | Earnest Tilling - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Too Many Idioms | Earnest Tilling

Life is good.
What if it’s not?
What if you
Have fungus or foot rot?
Make lemons into lemonade.
What if it’s sour?
Or what if you run out
Of lemons and so does the store
And you end up needing
A whole other hour?
What if you see the glass half empty
Instead of half full?
And what if that idiom nonsense
Is a whole lot of bull?
And what if there is no light
At the end of the tunnel
So if you’re a mystic
You have a whole more light to channel?
And what if you’re not a mystic?
Then you have no light at all
What if every cloud
Had a sulfurous lining
Instead of a silver one?
And how can a silver lining
Harness something as free as a cloud?
And what if
You can’t keep your chin up?
What if you had cancer
And your lymph nodes swelled
And you had no choice
But to have your jaw removed?
Knowing that you would die most likely
Anyway?
Then what can you do?

The Reading of Fiction |  JD DeHart - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

The Reading of Fiction | JD DeHart

Updike never sold me a day,
but I can get lost in his descriptions.
Similarly, pages of Faulkner can
bury me in dialogue.
I can coast along the erasure
of a graphic novel about Derrida.
Or I can get lost in Billy Collins’
description of getting lost in a poem.
Or listen to the verse conversation
of James Tate.
Then what race occurs
to construct my own fiction, to view
and understand the fictions others
are creating, even as I walk by them,
even maybe about me.

Persecuting Poets (A Doggerel Poem) | Daniel Klawitter - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Persecuting Poets (A Doggerel Poem) | Daniel Klawitter

Athenian: “Now didn’t we hear you saying a few minutes ago
that a legislator ought not to allow the poets to compose
whatever happened to take their fancy? You see, they’d
never know when they were saying something in opposition
to the law and harming the state.”- Plato, Laws IV.

Rebels are red
Violence is true
Verse is subversive
And so are you

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