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Aquiline Poems - Poems about Aquiline

The rose
... A rose With the scent of the earth Aroma from the clouds A desire to soar Tides crashing against the shore Pauses to expose the measure Of the treasure Yet the strain Of the ......

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Categories: aquiline, image, imagery, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
DAVID : Sculpture : Michelangelo: Florence : 1501
... “Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone, so long as ruin and dishonour reign ; to bear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain ; then wake me not, speak in an undertone !” ......

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Categories: aquiline, allusion, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Old Man
...Old Man his weatherbeaten face, lined with the hills and valleys of age watery blue eyes set against a backdrop of bloodshot white his cheeks reddened from sun and alcohol, his aquiline nose......

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Categories: aquiline, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Becomes Thee
... Poetry becomes thee but not me Thy golden hair sparkles and shines but not mine Silky apparel curves ‘round thee but not me Thy no......

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Categories: aquiline, beauty, irony, poetry,
Form: Couplet
We All Float
...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade. Each mortal she ensnares,......

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Categories: aquiline, dark,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem Upon My Nose
... As noses go, I’d say mine is okay if it is viewed by someone from the front. But if you look at it another way, it’s not so wonderful; let me be blunt. My nose is long, and if you’re in a pla......

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Categories: aquiline, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wayfarer Creed
...To what zenith do our chimeras whither? As we travel across discombobulated shores? Do we strive to collocate together? Or breed discord and close the doors? The wayfarer creed is t......

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Categories: aquiline, analogy, appreciation, beauty, together,
Form: Rhyme
Zoo
...Is my family is like a mini zoo? I always say yes to this question My mother is a merciful canine true ......

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Categories: aquiline, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aquiline Moon
...A scented paradise of floral escapes beneath a blue Cerulean sky Azure thoughts of you aside the river flowing through my senses like rivulets of water pleasant hot winds skirtin......

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Categories: aquiline, appreciation, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twisting Tale of An Avian Apparition
..."The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few, both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement" Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate, suddenly came upon an ivy-......

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Categories: aquiline, america, appreciation, art, bird,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Thorn Rose and Hair Apparent - a Collaboration
...A Limerick response to Gershon’s “Hair Apparent“ * * * Hair Apparent The loveliest girl in the world's named Rose From aquiline nose down to graceful toes -- Yet poor Rose ca......

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Categories: aquiline, rose,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Hair Apparent
...The loveliest girl in the world's named Rose From aquiline nose down to graceful toes -- Yet poor Rose can't get a date Is she abandoned by fate? -- Those giant bald spots she should not ......

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Categories: aquiline, beautiful, body, giggle, hair,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member To a Flamingo
...Greater Flamingo, you beautiful wading bird. What a captivating sight you are! Long-legged, web-footed wonder with aquiline beak; ......

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Categories: aquiline, appreciation, beautiful, bird, color,
Form: Ode
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX Day, and Night by Michael R. Burch The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters; her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms. And we who rise each day to grind a living, ......

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Categories: aquiline, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Noblesse Oblige
...Painstaking plumes of surest gait To wield diamond steel over fate; With slow pair of wit-guarded lips, As otiose words sway great ships. Invincible flair and exacting knack To stand out from......

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Categories: aquiline, allegory, anxiety, blessing, care,
Form: Didactic

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