Best 6 Poems

From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.

We were five I use to draw you rose scented flowers
using an ordinary led pencil. Youth! The world was ours.

Seven!  I know that was the...

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Spring heralds the dawning of brilliant bluebells carpeting the woods 
Silently they slept until the warm sun rouses them from slumber 
Gently they open their eyes, stretch and bask in nature’s glory 

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Contest Glorious Sijo Fields – Andrea Dietrich
How Many Syllables -  Count 16,...

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pale moonlight 
tints the silent garden--
raindrops glisten...

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The distance between us is like a pencil line drawn on a page
like steam in air

like the drop of water that captures in its soul 
the light

It is like water in the wash cloth
but also like that one ice cream drip that gets away and...

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II. Nature's Cyclical Dance

End is not death. Changing into something new is good.
A leaf falls, then goes back into the dark soil.
Next year's flowers sleep under winter's quiet.
We fear the end, but nature shows us it's not bad.
Death is a new start.

My Anishinaabe mentor Little...

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Four-score years ago, the youth of Allied Armies stormed Normandy's shore;
Men in the December of their years returned today recalling the gore of war.
They wept at comrades graves who freely gave their all on that crimson strand;
Heros reaped by the Scythe of Death to ensure...

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III. Ecological Awareness 

In this fragile eggshell
I will call life
for security's a mirage
I chase.
Existence is a gamble I take
a wild and
desperate gamble.
Not a problem –
to dissect, I say
but an eagle’s call
heard.
A life joy-filled
sorrow
I feel every single day.

When illness
descends a chilling hand on my
fevered brow.
We should...

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As the moon steals the skies from the sun
And the stars twinkle way up above
I wonder will I ever find that one 
who can share an undying  love




contest:'Brevity Poetry Contest No More Than Six Lines' 
Sponsor:Caren Krutsinger...

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Assures their breed a place among unknowns,
lest Europe and Asia part of their realms.
Peacock Butterfly, hues-full Inachis,
their uppermost topsides reveal truth bids,
yet undersides are black-like camouflage,
predators amiss, perplexed by mirage,
afears further by fake four eyes on wings,
and hissing sounds. The flower's nectar brings
life spans. They're...

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Gradually she changes her dress
at the end of this winter day
like a beautiful stage actress
preparing herself for a play.

At the end of this winter day
City of Joy as she is called
preparing herself for a play
diamond petals slowly unfurled.

City of Joy as she is called
wearing her...

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Above
The purple lake
Pale sunrays spread like songs
To burn away the shadows in
My soul....

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Sunset
casts lavender 
hues across lustrous sea,
then brushes clouds as bustling day
falls still....

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Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments, 
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes fade…..
He was so livid by my silence, he began thrashing...

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I write of sad things in my life for you,
And win sometimes first place and this is true;

Some hate my weeping words,
That I write like a song bird;

So I  give me, a compliment or two.


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June 20, 2015


Limerick

Inspiration Quote:

"When you cannot get a compliment...

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how many walking time bombs
wearing fake smiles
dwell in america?

explosive charge + timer + detonator = resident of the US of A...

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