Alludes Poems

Premium MemberTIME AND GRACE

...TIME AND GRACE
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time and grace intertwine
     time gives us moments
     grace restores and bestows 

time unfurls
     seconds dance
     m...
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Categories: alludes, 12th grade, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOur Effervescence

...In the darkest of shadows
where deaths distress throes
where haboob cold winds blow
sandstorms one only knows
and where the heart’s a swindler,
a flame needs its kindler
The for...
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Categories: alludes, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme


Ink Stone

...Ink Stone
 Stone symbolizes.
 With a feather pen.
 Document literature.
 Writer through calendar.
 Amusing prevails.
 Clouds to wanderer’s.
 Pave the way.
 Penmanship worthy.
 Alludes to ink...
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Categories: alludes, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Let then the winter of life rage

...Like late eve of a slowly dying year, 
Yellowing leaves await when falling down, 
Soon to get trodden when dried to dull brown, 
A few still hanging on, life lived in fear, 
I too, on late life's...
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Categories: alludes, life, love, old, winter,
Form: Sonnet

Ode to the tallest mountain peak

...O thou world’s tallest mount of might, 
Like a gawky adolescent,
Added hast thou to thy old height,
I bow to thy quickest ascent.

Thou, with thy siblings so many
In the abode of hoary snow,
A...
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Categories: alludes, eulogy, mountains,
Form: Ode


Woke, a brand new bloke

...World has gotten far too awake,
Fancy gender issues to rake.
Sex, a matter of choice,
One follows inner voice,
As suits self choice, one bakes one’s cake.
A non-binary brick
Has broken old rubr...
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Categories: alludes, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMowing the Grass

...Blade alludes to strength
Yet,vulnerable, you bend
Lush carpet of life...
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Categories: alludes, green, nature, spring,
Form: Haiku

Bloodless Ties

...He glimpses her, the peripheral life of her,
she abides in the corners of his eyes.

She is a tidal tug upon his shoreline,
salt for his blood.

Arcane atoms carry her presence
over tenuous th...
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Categories: alludes, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMY ROSE OF ROSES

...Who is in this void with me?
 Temporarily delightfully you know
Could it be Forever and always a rose?
Aah a rose? Ooh my rose of roses.
Mysteries mystically they be extreme
I think it be a rose...
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Categories: alludes, beautiful, mythology, perspective, rose,
Form: Prose Poetry

THE RIDDLES ANSWER

...I CANT BREATH I TRY BUT IT IS RIPPED FROM MY LUNGS
   I CANT BELIEVE THE WORLD HAS FALLEN SO FAR TO BECOME
   THE DARKEST PLACE TO BE LIKE IT WAS BORN OF DEATH SONGS
   I WOULD CHOOSE NOT TO SEE B...
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Categories: alludes, absence, abuse, age, america,
Form: Free verse

Conversation

...CONVERSATION

Tell me Polly, what does it say?
Well, I’m not sure I wish to share
Please, I never receive letters
Ah, I’m sorry for you, Leila
Oh, Polly, is it from – him?
Yes, it is from Edmu...
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Categories: alludes, crush, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Madonna's Last Hymn

...I’m on my fourth lifeline
how about you
The first three pre-owned
the current one new
This one seems fleeting
which gives me concern
My freezer is empty
no steaks left to burn
The first one w...
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Categories: alludes, voyage,
Form: Rhyme

Cannus Si Bow

...Romance is fickle and often
unkind it alludes me
it seeks others and
leaves me cold
often it's desired but
never achieved
it's need shatters ego's
and changes the way
people see you
might on...
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Categories: alludes, appreciation, desire, music, perspective,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberThe Shadows of Dreams

...In unconsciousness, where shadows prance,
An elusive dream, a furtive trance,
Weaves its tendrils through my mind,
Lingering with longing I cannot find.

Evasive visions, forever out of reach,
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Categories: alludes, destiny, dream, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Tuna Fish Can

...Mike and his father went grocery shopping.
Mike, age 4, chooses a tuna meal fish can.
Since his hands were full as he was swapping.
Mike opts to put the tuna in his pocket as a man.

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Categories: alludes, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, teenage,
Form: Rhyme

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