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Best Promise Poems

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Premium Member In Pursuit of a Promise
A promise should never remain silent.

In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.

For her love is 
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: promise, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Winter Rose - a Sonnet
I walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death 
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose  
Its beauty...

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Categories: promise, rose, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: promise, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: promise, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: promise, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -
The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

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Categories: promise, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: promise, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
It Rained That Day
Soft autumn rain ...
cascading over brightly colored cherry blossoms,
releasing a sweet scent of aromatic aphrodisiac
A fragrance of springtime love blowing in the gentle autumn wind

Our...

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Categories: promise, feelings, love, marriage, rain,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member First Communion
The powdery snow gloves the fingers 
of maple forest, protecting barren bark 
with the expectation of rose tipped bloom.

A meeting point between pristine
innocence and the...

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Categories: promise, caregiving, childhood, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: promise, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because of You
I used to be naive, I used to trust
but then that trust just crumbled into dust
the world at large is so unkind, it's true
there is...

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Categories: promise, meaningful, truth,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: promise, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: promise, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: promise, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Yesterday's Fragile Truth
Betrayal devastates your trusting heart,
severing love's bond; before it can start.
And depression slowly entraps your soul
as disparaging lies exact their toll.

Chameleon clouds change to match...

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Categories: promise, angst, betrayal, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs