Taste of Honey

08 October 2025

After an Excellent Workout / Uncorked Champagne

★★★★½

9/10

Rating Description: Exuberant and sensory-rich. The cascade of bubble imagery creates genuine momentum, carrying the reader through a fizzy journey from gym to reverie. The “poetic Möbius strip” concept is...

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♡ 101

06 October 2025

The Cat that Never Came Back

★★★★

8/10

This poem showcases David Plahm’s gift for narrative voice and unexpected tenderness. The cat persona is fully realized—cocky, sensory-driven, unapologetically hedonistic—yet the poem earns its emotional payoff by revealing vulnerability...

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♡ 96

05 October 2025

A Repository for a Stray Thought

★★★½

7/10

This poem embodies the playful, unguarded spirit that defines much of David Plahm’s work. Its charm lies in its refusal to take itself too seriously while still delivering genuine moments...

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♡ 101

03 October 2025

Dreaming

★★★★½

9/10

“Dreaming” is one of David Plahm’s most lush and accomplished pieces—a sustained rhapsody that earns its length through relentless image-making and genuine emotional escalation. The poem’s strength lies in its...

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♡ 15

02 October 2025

My Tears

★★★★

8/10

“My Tears” demonstrates the power of restraint. At just over 20 lines, it accomplishes what many longer poems cannot: it creates a complete emotional arc—from obscured vision to clarity, from...

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♡ 16

01 October 2025

Cause & Effect: The Lady, the Sand, the Result

★★★★

8/10

This is an ambitious poem that takes real structural risks. The pairing of a simple love note with an extended autobiographical allegory creates productive tension—we understand the hug in the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 19

01 October 2025

My Lovely Lady

★★★

6/10

“My Lovely Lady” is intentionally slight—and therein lies both its charm and its limitation. The poem succeeds completely at what it sets out to do: express gratitude with warmth and...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

29 September 2025

You Are/The One

★★★★

8/10

“You Are/The One” is an interesting formal experiment that mostly succeeds. The decision to present two versions of essentially the same poem creates a kind of call-and-response effect, allowing readers...

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♡ 17

28 September 2025

Cuteness

★★★★

8/10

“Cuteness” is delightful in its specificity. Where many love poems content themselves with generalities (eyes, lips, hands), Plahm goes granular: dimpled knees, freckled toes, a quivering little finger, a perking...

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♡ 16

28 September 2025

My Plant Named Lady

★★★½

7/10

“My Plant Named Lady” is an unusual entry in the collection—deliberately simple where other poems are lush, deliberately childlike where others are complex. This is both its strength and its...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 21

28 September 2025

Art(ificial)

★★★½

7/10

“Art(ificial)” is one of Plahm’s most conceptually ambitious poems, built around a typographical conceit that allows “Art” to mean multiple things simultaneously. The wordplay is genuinely clever: the parenthetical formatting...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 21

28 September 2025

Sacred Light

★★★★

8/10

“Sacred Light” is one of Plahm’s most accomplished love poems, achieving a sustained lyricism that justifies its title. The choice of candlelight as central image is inspired—it provides warmth without...

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♡ 11

26 September 2025

Inside is Precious

★★★★

8/10

A quietly elegant piece that rewards close attention. Plahm demonstrates restraint here—the short, breath-like lines create a meditative rhythm that mirrors the act of appreciating someone fully. The progression from...

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♡ 16

24 September 2025

The Loving Embrace

★★★★½

9/10

This poem showcases Plahm at his most tactile and emotionally exposed. The conceit of hands as the central image proves remarkably versatile—carrying weight both literal and metaphorical across the poem’s...

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♡ 10

24 September 2025

Nectar Bytes & Thorns

★★★★

8/10

An ambitious piece that successfully marries the aphoristic with the personal. Plahm’s “nectar bytes” concept—wisdom fragments earned through experience’s thorns—provides a unifying framework that holds the poem’s varied modes together....

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♡ 16

22 September 2025

Charlie (A Pantry Portrait)

★★★½

7/10

A playful, surprising little poem that demonstrates Plahm’s range beyond the romantic and metaphysical. The central conceit—eulogizing a can of tuna—is handled with genuine wit, and the poem earns its...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

21 September 2025

I’ll Never Know

★★★★

8/10

A hypnotic meditation on romantic obsession that succeeds through sheer emotional honesty. The incantatory repetitions (Oh—Yes—No—Woe—My) could feel gimmicky but instead create genuine momentum, building toward the devastating final surrender....

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

20 September 2025

A Rush

★★★★

8/10

A compact, emotionally resonant piece that accomplishes more with less. The short, breath-like lines create a sense of urgency that mirrors the subject matter—the rush itself. Plahm wisely resists over-explaining;...

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♡ 15

19 September 2025

The Unicorn’s Dance: Science and Soul

★★★★

8/10

An ambitious piece that succeeds by embracing its own contradictions. The prose sections risk breaking the spell of the poetry, but Plahm handles the transitions with surprising grace—the scientific framing...

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♡ 9

18 September 2025

Painter as a Poet/Poet as a Painter

★★★

6/10

A deliberately raw, experimental piece that prioritizes spontaneity over polish. The opening question about Michelangelo and Shakespeare carries genuine intellectual weight, and the list of paradoxical emotional states (relaxing yet...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 14

18 September 2025

Every—

★★★★

8/10

A masterclass in compression. This tiny poem punches well above its weight, using the familiar currency of time and money to make an unfamiliar point feel fresh. The repetition of...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 13

18 September 2025

A Shirt

★★★★

8/10

A deceptively simple piece that accomplishes more in twelve lines than many poems do in fifty. The paired haiku structure creates a satisfying call-and-response effect: first the speaker examines their...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

17 September 2025

Aurum

★★★★½

9/10

A sumptuous, unapologetically romantic poem that commits fully to its golden conceit and is richer for it. The blazon tradition—cataloguing the beloved’s beauties—is handled with fresh energy, and the medieval...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 11

15 September 2025

Bertha’s Broadside

★★★★

8/10

A joyously irreverent piece that finds the sacred in the profane—or at least in the fluorescent-lit aisles of Walmart. Plahm’s gift for wordplay is on full display: the “berth/Bertha” pun,...

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♡ 14

09 September 2025

Sunny Beaches and Calm Breezes (I Wish)

★★★★

8/10

A powerful illness narrative that earns its epic scope. The cascading natural disasters could feel excessive, but Plahm maintains control through the tight parallel structure and the gradual inward movement...

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♡ 50

08 September 2025

Captured

★★★★

8/10

A masterfully structured poem that earns its emotional payoff through disciplined escalation. The opening stanzas accumulate dread with cinematic precision—wild animal, criminal, roadkill—while the refrain’s variations (“exposed,” “caught,” “stripped,” “drained”)...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 13

06 September 2025

A Kiss Rose

★★★★

8/10

A charming, playful exploration of romantic awakening that succeeds through its central conceit: the “Kiss Rose” as both object and action, gift and genesis. The dense rhyme scheme (rose/nose/glows/flows/knows) creates...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 45

06 September 2025

Are You?

★★★★

8/10

A tender, devotional lullaby that succeeds through its deliberate pacing and liturgical structure. The meta-framing—explicitly instructing the reader how to receive the poem—could feel gimmicky but instead creates genuine warmth,...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 49

06 September 2025

Lady Slicker the Kicker

★★★★

8/10

An exuberant, percussive love poem that uses athletic imagery to capture devotion’s physical intensity. The triplet repetitions create genuine rhythmic propulsion—reading it aloud feels like a stadium chant building toward...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 28

01 September 2025

When You Know (Something More)

★★★★

8/10

A tender, layered meditation on what makes someone truly beautiful. The poem’s structure—surface observation deepening into philosophical inquiry—mirrors the act of coming to know another person over time. The anaphoric...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 34

30 August 2025

Foundation

★★★★

8/10

A winningly self-deprecating celebration of bodily acceptance disguised as comedy. The poem’s structure—absurdist list building toward philosophical pivot—demonstrates Plahm’s skill at hiding wisdom inside humor. The Fred Flintstone reference and...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 34

29 August 2025

Do You Know?

★★★★

8/10

A tender check-in poem that earns its emotional weight through gentleness rather than grandeur. The anaphoric “You do know” opening establishes intimacy—the speaker isn’t declaring anything new but reminding the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 19

28 August 2025

George Knows

★★★★

8/10

A quietly powerful meditation that earns its emotional resonance through accumulation rather than grandeur. The mortuary opening is a masterful tonal gambit—introducing death’s shadow so George’s simple presence can dispel...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 14

26 August 2025

Splitzoid: The Fracture of Society

★★★★

8/10

Plahm’s most structurally daring work—part manifesto, part love letter, part performance art directive. The poem risks everything by refusing containment: prose preamble bleeds into political polemic bleeds into dance anthem...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 19

25 August 2025

Permission Slip

★★★★

8/10

A propulsive, infectious workout poem that reads like it was written mid-rep. Plahm’s greatest achievement here is rhythm—the staccato lines and italicized body-state inventories create genuine physical momentum that makes...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 20

24 August 2025

Sometimes

★★★★

8/10

A hypnotic, meditative love poem that proves anaphora, when wielded with discipline, can create cumulative emotional power rivaling any narrative arc. Each “Sometimes,” stanza adds a new facet to the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 14

20 August 2025

Bestiary & Book of Nectar (The Breaking Up Card)

★★★★

7/10

Plahm’s darkest and most conceptually ambitious work—a genuine poetic grimoire that functions as both warning manual and spiritual taxonomy. The four-beast structure (Possum, Snake, Hyena, Wolf) is brilliantly organized, each...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 17

17 August 2025

BB’s Blues

★★★★

8/10

A swaggering, infectious blues poem that demands to be read aloud—preferably with a band behind it. Plahm’s greatest innovation here is “Filswanky,” a nonsense word that somehow communicates perfectly: it’s...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

15 August 2025

In My Mind’s Eye

★★★★

9/10

A masterclass in compression. Where many of Plahm’s poems achieve their power through accumulation—layer upon layer of imagery, repetition, and invented language—this one works by subtraction. Every word earns its...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 16

14 August 2025

A Singular Moment

★★★★

9/10

This poem functions as the Rosetta Stone for understanding Plahm’s entire body of work. Everything that follows in the HoneyBeeBard canon—the Muse mythology, the devotion to a smile, the recurring...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

12 August 2025

My Fantasy Blues

★★★★

6/10

A warm, bluesy meditation that achieves something rare in Plahm’s catalog: genuine humility before the beloved’s separate history. Where many of his poems celebrate the Muse through the lens of...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 12

09 August 2025

Triple Dog Dare

★★★★

8/10

A disarming palate cleanser in the HoneyBeeBard catalog that proves Plahm’s range extends well beyond romantic devotion and metaphysical longing. The puppy voice is sustained with impressive consistency—never once does...

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♡ 20

05 August 2025

An Observation

★★★

6/10

A sharp, honest aperçu that succeeds on the strength of its restraint. In five lines, Plahm manages to observe a social truth, confess vulnerability, and offer a quiet compliment—all without...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

05 August 2025

The Lovely Whisper in the Dark

★★★★

8/10

An emotionally transparent poem that takes a considerable structural risk—building an elaborate cathedral of longing around a single day’s absence—and largely succeeds because of its unflinching self-awareness. The opening conceit...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

03 August 2025

Of Roots and Power

★★★★

7/10

A departure that reveals Plahm’s range and convictions. Where most of his poems orbit the Muse, this one orbits community—and discovers that the two are connected. The poem’s greatest strength...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 46

02 August 2025

Is It My Jagged Charm?

★★★★

10/10

One of the most likable poems in the entire HoneyBeeBard catalog, and its 41 likes suggest the audience agrees. The poem’s greatest achievement is tonal: it sustains a conversational, self-effacing...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 42

23 July 2025

The Moonlit Walk

★★★★

8/10

A lush, unapologetically romantic poem that earns its 43 likes through sheer atmospheric commitment. The recurring refrain is the poem’s backbone, and Plahm handles it with skill—each return of “The...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 43

19 July 2025

Just a Small Share

★★★★

10/10

An emotionally layered poem that rewards patient reading, moving through several distinct registers—physical, emotional, metaphysical—before arriving at its symbolic conclusion. The opening question-and-answer structure is effective, with each repetition of...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 34

18 July 2025

Breath, Blood, and Coffee

★★★

7/10

The most polarizing poem in Plahm’s catalog—a piece that will either feel bracingly honest or undisciplined depending on the reader’s tolerance for raw, unedited political verse. The 35 likes suggest...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 35

17 July 2025

The Rockin’ Chair Gospel

★★★★★

9/10

A remarkable poem that earns its “gospel” title by finding the sacred inside the utterly ordinary—rocking chairs, Christmas socks, porch lights, chameleons in boots. The 20 likes may underrepresent this...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 20

16 July 2025

Laugh Out Loud!

★★★★

8/10

A generous, warm-hearted poem that manages the difficult trick of being funny and profound simultaneously—though it earns its profundity precisely by not reaching for it. The 23 likes feel right...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 23

14 July 2025

The Beauty You Carry

★★★★

8/10

A quietly commanding poem that earns its 65 likes—the highest engagement in recent memory—through emotional clarity and structural restraint. Where many of Plahm’s longer works achieve their power through accumulation...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 65

14 July 2025

Musings to My Muse

★★★★

8/10

A poem that achieves maximum impact through minimum means—fewer than thirty lines that contain the entire emotional architecture of the HoneyBeeBard project. The anaphoric opening is deceptively simple; what appears...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 59

14 July 2025

Epilogue

★★★

7/10

A poem that asks to be judged not in isolation but as the final movement of a three-part sequence—and in that context, it succeeds as a satisfying closing gesture. The...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 12

14 July 2025

The Mythology of a Poet

★★★★

6/10

The most structurally daring poem in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and one that rewards multiple readings as its layers reveal themselves. The polyphonic conceit—constructing the poet’s mythology through competing voices—is genuinely...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 22

14 July 2025

Prologue

★★★

7/10

A conceptually sophisticated opening that functions more effectively as frame than as standalone poem—which is, to be fair, exactly what it intends. The parenthetical instruction about removing beginnings and endings...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 16

14 July 2025

Hush

★★★★

8/10

A poem that operates by accumulation and surprise, rewarding readers who surrender to its associative drift and challenging those who require linear architecture. The opening admission of a lost thought...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 16

11 July 2025

Not Always

★★★★

8/10

A deceptively lightweight poem that reveals surprising depth on rereading. The opening gambit—subverting the most overused couplet in English poetry—is a smart structural choice because it immediately establishes the poem’s...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

10 July 2025

I’m Just A Dude

★★★★

8/10

The most popular poem in the HoneyBeeBard catalog by engagement metrics, and its appeal is immediately clear: this is a poem that works as both literature and product, both confession...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 69

10 July 2025

Funky Fusion Twice Baked

★★★★

8/10

A poem that demands to be heard rather than read—and that’s not a criticism but a description of its medium. The 52 likes and its status as the lead track...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 52

10 July 2025

Stars in My Eyes

★★★★

8/10

A sweeping, earnest love poem that gains considerable power from its musical context—as Track 02 on the EP, it would benefit from Elena Welch’s vocal delivery in ways the page...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 48

10 July 2025

The Authenticity of Beauty

★★★★

6/10

One of the most immediately charming poems in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and its 44 likes reflect an audience that recognizes itself in its wit and warmth. The question-and-answer structure is...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 44

09 July 2025

The Art of Not Saying the Word

★★★★

8/10

The most accomplished song lyric in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and the one that most successfully integrates Plahm’s recurring “unsaid word” motif with musical form. As Track 05 on the EP—the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 28

09 July 2025

Think in Blue

★★★★

7/10

The most cohesive and conceptually tight song lyric on the EP, and the one that most fully earns the album’s “Blue” title. Where “Funky Fusion” celebrates jazz and “Stars in...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 24

09 July 2025

Mended Valentine

★★★★

7/10

A quietly effective prose poem that succeeds by refusing to perform. Where much of the HoneyBeeBard catalog thrives on structural invention—cascading line breaks, anaphoric build-ups, tonal shifts from comic to...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

09 July 2025

Gee-Wizzy’s G-Code Dance

★★★★

8/10

A maximalist, risk-taking poem that is by turns brilliant and bewildering—and knows it. The central conceit of mapping CNC G-codes onto human dance and intimacy is genuinely original, the kind...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 19

08 July 2025

That Treasure is You

★★★★

8/10

A quietly essential piece that says plainly what dozens of longer, more elaborate poems in the catalog say through metaphor—and there is real courage in that plainness. Where “Hush” needs...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 20

07 July 2025

The Together Dance (The Backside of You)

★★★★

8/10

A deceptively simple poem that does more structural and emotional work than its breezy tone suggests. The front-side/back-side conceit is the kind of idea that sounds like it shouldn’t sustain...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

06 July 2025

Death of a Muse

★★★★★

9/10

A tour de force that tackles the most dangerous question a muse-dependent poet can ask—what if I lost her?—and transforms existential dread into comedy, mythology, gothic romance, and collaborative haiku,...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 24

04 July 2025

Ripples of Truth

★★★★

8/10

An ambitious poem that attempts to bridge marine biology, water mysticism, romantic devotion, and Independence Day patriotism through a single governing metaphor—and largely succeeds because Plahm commits fully to the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 14

03 July 2025

HOW (Hell on Wheels)

★★★★

8/10

The rawest and most confrontational poem in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and one that earns its profanity by making every expletive do structural work. The proliferating acronym conceit is genuinely inventive—by...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 15

02 July 2025

What Are You Worth?

★★★★

8/10

One of the most broadly accessible and emotionally generous poems in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and its 33 likes—among the highest engagement numbers recorded—confirm that the catechism structure and direct emotional...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 33

02 July 2025

It’s Not the Light

★★★★

9/10

A poem that earns its 37 likes—among the highest in the entire catalog—by doing the thing most love poems are afraid to do: completely surrender. The bilingual structure is not...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 37

02 July 2025

Symptoms of You

★★★★

9/10

One of the most tightly constructed and broadly appealing poems in the entire HoneyBeeBard catalog, and its 35 likes confirm what the reading experience suggests: this is a poem that...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 35

02 July 2025

Endear You (To Me)

★★★★

8/10

A small poem that does exactly one thing and does it perfectly: it finds the gap between what we’re supposed to call the people we love and what we actually...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 34

02 July 2025

A Valentine Recipe

★★★★

8/10

A beautifully efficient prose valentine that achieves in four paragraphs what many love poems need four pages to say, and does so without sacrificing specificity or warmth. The recipe metaphor...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 30

24 June 2025

From Turbulence to a Dream—Take Two

★★★★

8/10

A poem that achieves remarkable emotional distance in a compact space—from maelstrom to glass seas, from panic to buttercream, from turbulence to dream—and does so with imagery that is both...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 36

23 June 2025

My Auction, My trigger?

★★★

7/10

A poem that operates almost entirely on compression and implication, and whose effectiveness depends heavily on its placement within the catalog rather than its standalone merit. The descending list of...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 32

19 June 2025

From Turbulence to a Dream—Take One

★★★★

8/10

A raw, unvarnished first draft that possesses qualities its polished revision deliberately smoothed away—and is arguably stronger for their presence. Where “Take Two” adds humor (the Eternal Chicken Soup), brand...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 31

17 June 2025

There Better Be

★★★★

8/10

A poem that earns its philosophical ambitions by grounding them in craft, emotion, and a single explosive profanity that does more structural work than entire stanzas of lesser poems. The...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 29

13 June 2025

Trauma to Purpose

★★★★

8/10

One of the most physically intense poems in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and one that succeeds precisely because it refuses the vocabulary of conventional love poetry and replaces it with the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 29

12 June 2025

Neuro Divergence

★★★★

8/10

One of the most structurally daring poems in the catalog, and one that succeeds by trusting the reader to hold two registers simultaneously—the burlesque and the biblical—without flinching. The poem’s...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 34

10 June 2025

The Final Dive

★★★★

8/10

The most tonally restrained poem in the HoneyBeeBard catalog, and one that achieves its emotional impact through subtraction rather than accumulation—a rare move for a poet whose signature is exuberant...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

10 June 2025

Light That Torch

★★★★

9/10

The most formally ambitious and empathetically daring poem in the early HoneyBeeBard catalog, and one that succeeds on nearly every level it attempts. The decision to write a dramatic monologue—to...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 25

07 June 2025

How Much?

★★★

7/10

A poem that achieves maximum impact-per-word ratio and functions beautifully as a shareable fragment—the kind of piece readers screenshot and text to someone they love. The line breaks are doing...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 27

07 June 2025

The Intimacy of Language

★★★★

8/10

One of the most formally controlled poems in the catalog, and one of the few that achieves its effect through compression rather than accumulation. The anaphoric first stanza—each line beginning...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 21

07 June 2025

Pursuit to Truth

★★★

7/10

A wisp of a poem that punches above its weight through strategic compression and a single devastating ellipsis. The ninety-to-eighteen seesaw in the opening is effective shorthand for the catalog’s...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 24

07 June 2025

First Sight

★★★★

9/10

A poem that earns its place among the essential pieces in the HoneyBeeBard catalog by doing what the best love poems do: making the familiar feel impossible, the repeated feel...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 17

05 June 2025

A Trinity of Authenticity, Care and Transformation

★★★★

8/10

An ambitious, sprawling suite that functions as both ars poetica and love letter, with a pastoral centerpiece that ranks among the most sensorily vivid passages in the entire catalog. The...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 17

05 June 2025

A Drunken Thanks

★★★

7/10

A perfectly executed comic sketch that knows exactly what it is and doesn’t try to be anything more. The phonetic misspellings are precise rather than sloppy—each one performs a specific...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 25

03 June 2025

A Love Letter From The Apocalypse

★★★★

8/10

A deceptively sophisticated poem wearing a clown suit. Beneath the gross-out humor operates one of the catalog’s most emotionally complex family portraits, and the fact that it never once drops...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 17

03 June 2025

I’ve Been Hexed! I’ve Been Blessed!

★★★★

8/10

A cleverly constructed poem that achieves more structural coherence than its light, incantatory surface suggests. The hex/six/spell triple-meaning is the poem’s engine, and Plahm exploits it fully without over-explaining—the etymological...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 26

01 June 2025

My Garden Fable

★★★★

8/10

A light poem that accomplishes something surprisingly difficult: it operates as genuine fable while never losing its comic voice, and the philosophical frame earns its weight by the final line....

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 23

01 June 2025

Illumination (A Reflection)

★★★★

7/10

A poem that succeeds through the accumulation of quiet, observed details rather than through any single pyrotechnic moment. The anti-blazon strategy—defining beauty through behavior rather than physical description—is both philosophically...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

30 May 2025

Tunnel Vision (In Superposition)

★★★★

8/10

A poem that achieves maximum compression: twelve lines, zero waste. The title carries genuine intellectual weight, marrying an idiomatic cliché to a physics concept in a way that makes both...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 20

25 May 2025

Grill Me Tender: A Culinary Cataclysm

★★★★

8/10

The catalog’s most ambitious comic-erotic poem, and one of its most successful sustained performances. The three-act structure—kitchen catastrophe, grill apotheosis, erotic dessert—gives the poem genuine narrative architecture, and the transition...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 16

24 May 2025

The Feelies

★★★

7/10

A charming, unpretentious song-lyric that succeeds entirely on voice, rhythm, and the warmth of its invented vocabulary. “The feelies” as a coinage is genuinely good—it sounds natural, fills a real...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 21

24 May 2025

Life’s Maelstrom

★★★

7/10

A clean, well-executed micro-poem that achieves genuine compression and lets a single metaphor do sustained work. The ocean-as-life, moon-as-Muse conceit is mapped with care: “senseless” carries a productive double meaning,...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

23 May 2025

Evolution – from Secret to Sacred

★★★★

8/10

A structurally ambitious two-act poem that uses a single word—”Guilty”—as both percussion instrument and emotional thesis, building through repetition toward a confession that earns its simplicity. Act I’s stacking technique...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 21

22 May 2025

Economy of Life

★★★★

8/10

A structurally elegant poem that earns its wisdom through careful construction rather than mere declaration. The symmetrical opening—hate as mist versus love as roots—is both memorable and philosophically sound, giving...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 18

26 January 2025

Follow You!

★★★

7/10

A founding poem that functions exactly as intended: as a clear, unguarded declaration of devotion that establishes the emotional bedrock of the entire catalog. The anaphoric litany (“Your beauty lights…...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 60

26 January 2025

Sleep Walking

★★★★

8/10

A masterclass in comic timing disguised as a nine-line poem. The setup-punchline structure is flawless: the first stanza’s escalating existential vocabulary (“waking dream,” “maze,” “silent woe”) plays completely straight, building...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 61

26 January 2025

Your Ear

★★★★

8/10

The most formally daring piece in the founding batch, operating in prose rather than verse and using the vocabulary of design and biology rather than romance. The choice of the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 52

26 January 2025

Christmas

★★★

7/10

The most commercially instinctive piece in the founding batch, establishing the greeting-card mode that becomes a distinct format within the catalog. The negation sequence (“Not religious, not political, not sectarian,...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 49

26 January 2025

Tomorrow

★★★★

8/10

The catalog’s origin point and its most compressed philosophical statement: five lines mapping an entire temporal ontology where the past is a vague thought, the present is guidance, and the...

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🐝 by David Plahm

♡ 49