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Best Epyllion Poems

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Premium Member Ragnarok: the Storm
With the end of days upon them
Nears the time of final battle
In the halls of high Valhalla
Asgard senses its death rattle

In the forest crows the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: weather,
Form: Epyllion



Dancing In the Sandpipers Ruins.
The walls have fallen and the grounds overgrown,
If you’d never been here you might never have known,

The stair that lead nowhere from the cracked ocean...

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Categories: happiness, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Epyllion
Our First Gift Rediscovered
Those old memories crash
     Like frenzied hurricane waves
          Upon our sand and...

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Categories: imagination, life, love, passion,
Form: Epyllion
Premium Member Cannon Lee
The ocean shatters on the banks of my despair
where I stand above the cliffs in mournful yearning there,
amid the thunder and the lightning
that cracks the...

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Form: Epyllion
Activity #28
"Such beauty"
"Such grace"
"Such wonder"
"Such waste"

That is what they said to me
As she climbed the forbidden tree

Some said she'd make it
Some said she'd fall
Some tongues stood...

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Categories: allegory, imagination, love, passion,
Form: Epyllion



The Huntress
A pursuer at an precocious age,
Instantly able to set the stage.
Unaware of the glare from a piercing stare,
Calculated thoughts and moments planned; the prey would...

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Categories: fantasy, passion
Form: Epyllion
It's Your Attention To Detail
Gentle caresses sweep my skin
with creeping tenderness,
devouring every curve of my body
and feeling its sizzling melt 
against your skin.
Your loving gaze enters my soul
striking away...

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Categories: emotions, husband, i love
Form: Epyllion
Late Night On Salisbury Ave.
The meadow's radiance gradually dimmed
and evening littered far and wide
it encouraged the unfamiliar 
and everything uncertain.

The night accelerated sounds of anticipation 
as a thousand strangers...

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© Angie Mae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: faith, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Epyllion
Torturous Twenty Four.
Forlorn in midnights vastness
Twinkling cousins as patient companions
She covets him
Her blushing glow pacifying the empty night
Descending toward dawn
Anxious Lingering

He will come for her…

Slowly the stars...

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Categories: hope, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Epyllion
I Love You
You'll always be my only,
Your beauty is so much my weakness.
Your smile is usually-
The only reason i end my days in happiness.
Your wonderful figure,
Added on...

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Categories: best friend,
Form: Epyllion
Premium Member Reanimation Damnation
Quiet is the night, laid blight amid this infernal necropolis
Loosely mantled soil, smother marrow of perished veneration
Yet windows still aflame, a dormant witness to troth...

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Categories: death, fantasy, grave, imagery,
Form: Epyllion
Motherland
Motherland (Eclogue) 

In the country of my forefathers, 
Economy is friendless and upset, 
Politics are sleeping with labour, 
Justice is seducing foreign crime, 
Poetry is...

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Categories: africa, beautiful, betrayal, bible,
Form: Epyllion
Right Person, Wrong Time
Right person,
Wrong time
Holding to this moment
Forever intertwined
The perfect fit
My hand in yours
We have this moment
But we can't have more
Our time is short
So savor the now
No...

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Categories: feelings, heartbroken, how i
Form: Epyllion
My Purple Hibiscus
She arrived the year I thought I broke free
From the seductive hold of art and all art-meets
I shunned the temptation
But she broke into my tube
Televising...

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Categories: friendship, lost love, love,
Form: Epyllion
Forbidden Love
He stood upon the cliffs awaiting the sunrise
Watching as the last of the moon descended
Anticipating the light meeting the sea
Listening to the waves kissing the...

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© Lena Pate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fantasy, imagination, love, seaworld,
Form: Epyllion

Book: Shattered Sighs