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Best Impromptu Poems

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Premium Member My Impromptu Picnic
[Written during a twelve hour power cut caused by
Storms this past winter]

The storm that arrived in the depth of the night
Got even worse with the...

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Categories: impromptu, food,
Form: Rhyme



Impromptu
my muse
went on
a cruise ship
vacation
leaving me
alone

right
now aft
or port
she is
dancing
on some deck

as i am
playing solitaire
on my cell
phone
not even
real cards

i miss
the texture
not new
nor worn
cards
finger familiar

like touching
her thigh
a...

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Categories: impromptu, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Defying Predictability
With hair ablaze, a jester unconfined,
I scoffed at the mundane, its life declined.
My wardrobe, a riot, a rhapsody bold,
Mismatched socks my standard, stories untold.

In classrooms...

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Categories: impromptu, angst, character, conflict, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: impromptu, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spontaneity
Line of inquiry:

"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impromptu, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Searching For a Poetic Form
My existence is a poem I've never finished,
as I've always been unsure what form it should take.

In a labyrinth of lyrics, words are like whores,
unfaithful and easily...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impromptu, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Water Tower
The water tower stands above the town and can be seen for miles around.  It has a 
ladder leading up to the base of...

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Categories: impromptu, childhood, faith, father, lifewords,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Soup Safari
SOUP SAFARI
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here I...

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Categories: impromptu, happiness, holiday, people
Form: Couplet
Premium Member She Hasn'T Left Me Yet
I remember when youth felt forever,
for I didn't understand grown-up things.
And I spent all of my time playing games,
dreaming of magical dragons with wings.

Yet in...

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Categories: impromptu, emotions, feelings, imagery, innocence,
Form: Quatrain
Middlebrook
One big boom reverberates,
we shelter 'neath the railway bridge,
the swirling wind ensures we get a soaking anyway.
The Croal is roaring well above the watermark,
the nature...

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Categories: impromptu, childhood,
Form: Verse
Lucid Lap Dance
Tenacious ichor tells entire construction
     Divulges puerile battles during idle procedure
     Relic compiling spotlight show seduction 
...

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Categories: impromptu, art, beauty, bridal shower,
Form: Rhyme
The Deliverance
O'er fields strewn with harvested evergreens,
There ventured a marine from Queens,
His flesh were a slight inky, his clothing was ragged,
No more alive, flowing in dread...

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Categories: impromptu, dark, life, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream Streams
Shallow ,transient
fearfully blue
ingnorant eyes
images untrue.

Trouble,torment
a different hue
stains that shame
dull yet  new.


It's a daydream,awake
a nightmare asleep
It's not as it seems
what does it mean?


Brooding,pensive
selfless sincere
a meaningless...

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Categories: impromptu, dream, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Kaleidoscopic Medley
Gorgeous colors come together, in a fantastic, impromptu dance,
Mingling with manifold others, in cascades of pure happenstance,
Encompassing a world of hues, like luxuriant gardens at...

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Categories: impromptu, beauty, color, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Pen To You
Writing I most appreciate 
When poetry I can create
Be it a sonnet impromptu
I need every word to ring true 
I sometimes open the floodgate
When I...

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Categories: impromptu, fun, passion, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme

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