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Anapaest Poems - Poems about Anapaest


Joy, dewdrops as if on lotus leaf
...Joy’s like dewdrops on lotus leaf If you know not life’s subtle brief. It’s dawn if I open eyes, If not, a darkling night, The wise whose sun would not rise, There reigns enduring blight Al......

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Categories: anapaest, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Were this world not such a lure
...If this world were not such a sweet lure Pulling me in like earth’s gravity, And for long-- many a life’s allure, To get trapped being man’s destiny, And this life being a virtual dream In......

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Categories: anapaest, men, world,
Form: Sonnet



In a Game of Thrones
...Markets smile, deep pockets make fat pile, And when frown, fortunes come tumbling down. In play of plump coffers There’s no place for paupers— Sophomore Dumpty’s tend to crash crown, They prospe......

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Categories: anapaest, fate, money,
Form: Sestina
So Close and Still So Far
...Locating door D-75 Of a large colony on a drive, At last close, ah D-74! I must be right at destiny’s door. But the next turns out B-68!! What, lost at the very Pearly Gate? So I felt midway th......

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Categories: anapaest, humor,
Form: Sonnet
What a Poet Pair Once Dreamt
...The dreams sure were dreamt— by one alone, Not by both and sure failed to reach peak. Let’s now build together our dream house— Bring own base, cement, mortar, each brick. Let all need temple......

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Categories: anapaest, dream, together,
Form: Ghazal



If In Life
...To enjoy what we have if is joy, Waiting for what we’ve not too is joy. One plus one makes two, tells a maths rule, Minus one makes lonely, says life’s school. In life’s play, I know one clo......

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Categories: anapaest, joy, life,
Form: Ghazal
Lo, Stumbling Stones Love Me Still
...Those that praise my pen too far and quick, Innocent but perhaps make me weak. Those that scraps and crumbs about me keep, Slights and snubs of theirs do make me sick. Journey’s end— end of......

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Categories: anapaest, life, world,
Form: Ghazal
Is Not It Strange
...Old breath no life has tolerated, Strange, most change finds itself deserted. Odd, this friendship I’ve cultivated, By fighting with self fosters ahead. It sounds so weird, my steadfast head ......

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Categories: anapaest, angst,
Form: Ghazal
If
...If pink’s no colour, but attitude, If pink side of the life’s always stood, If things look so sunny, painted pink, And if all life’s as precious as mink, Beauteous as is pink rose, Everythin......

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Categories: anapaest, life,
Form: Couplet
Spread Your Smile a Mile
...You may laugh all aloud, smile a smile, Happiness it is your very own, If you make an unknown sad face smile, Joy and bliss of yours greater has grown. Fine, you bring back lost smile on the fa......

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Categories: anapaest, gospel, happiness, joy, smile,
Form: Quatrain
Cyhydedd Fer Sonnet
...Each line is composed of two Anapaest metres and a final Spondee metre. Come to me and put thine sweet eyes on this note that thus came, e’en tries to put slander within my mind of the old and ......

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Categories: anapaest, anger,
Form: Sonnet
An Ode To Information
...I recall, to our life when she came— In early nineties one unknown day, Few did know for long years: who she was— Her mission, and what she wished to do, And someone called it an Info Age: ......

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Categories: anapaest, change, internet, today, world,
Form: Ode
A Toddler When I Was
...No more than a toddler when I was, Old enough on own that can when chill— To play with siblings an option still, Pleasure still to play with mother was. ‘Hay look Ma, where am I?’ Pretending w......

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Categories: anapaest, childhood, family, memory, mother,
Form: Verse
Listening Within
...The chatter around put on the mute, I hailed heart to listen to soul’s lute, Creative spikes to spurt, Mind mindful and alert, More present, systems to get reboot; And then heard a voice curt, ......

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Categories: anapaest, humor,
Form: Limerick

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