Circumlocution Poems - Poems about Circumlocution

In realms where thought and tempests meet where shifting sands outpace the feet a creature stirs with cunning guise Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies its words like desert viper’s sting they strike the heart then coil and cling. Through jungles thick with tangled green where vines obscure what might be seen it stalks like the jaguar sleek and sly its golden gaze a riddle’s...

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I'm a truly benign bibliotaph who sells used books for fun, & don't intend to make you laugh because I can't think of a good pun....

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Coming together like living magic, breaking liquidity apart More infused with passion, that never has an end or start Strongly vibrant with rhythmic silent sounds, that be still a stoutly content beating heart A misty circumlocution, talking in invisible tongues, struggling to be smart Oh, how clouds are the skies very own well stocked al a carte A water color...

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Poem as depicted here. ___________________________________________________________ CIRCUMLOCUTION was inspired by the poem, Him & Her Intersection, by Brian Bilston. In the 2015 Great British Write Off, he won the poetry prize for this poem disguised in a Venn diagram. My interpretation of the intersection poem scans differently to his as the intersected part is to be read...

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Ancestors Of old times Time their visits to me, In dreams and visions wake, Awake me to the spirits I seek, Seeking to renew life, Living for tomorrow… Tomorrow begins new Newly wishing I’m free Freely speaking my heart Heartfully making songs Sung inside this souls place Placing it in life’s view… Viewing the chaos realms A realm where change blossoms Blooming with new vigor Vigorously starting, The starts growing right...

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carefully laid down one by one penning the words as they come choosing ever so prudently a poem for ignominy a tacit agreement quietly kept between a mind and body adept some coherant ideology based on etymology euphemistic ideas at best lying explicits up to rest compromising the mind inside to make its speech coincide with what most people want to hear in their surrogate heart to tickle...

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CIRCUMLOCUTION Today’s problems seem insoluble, For empty talk is often voluble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOTE: These two simple...

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