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Best Sapphic Stanza Poems

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Premium Member Spring Dawn
When the silky light teases, slowly filters
         through the land of drowsiness, gently rippling
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Categories: day, imagery, spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza



Premium Member A Spring Miracle
April's mist has filtered the early sunrise,
Meadows spread their blankets of colored rainbows
Newborn lambs have nestled in clover cradles,
christened by dewdrops 





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By Carrie 3/17/15
For Craig's...

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Categories: beauty, morning, nature, spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member A Macabre Dance
silky, shapely, shameless seductress, swaying

   tantalizing, torrid, entangled twining

      languid, luxe, libidinous, luscious luncheon ~

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dance, dark,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Church Dinners, a Rumination
Bless the deviled eggs and the preacher’s children.
Grab a piece of fried-to-perfection chicken.
Coca-cola cake or banana pudding?
~ Prodigals welcomed






January 29, 2019
Sapphic Stanza with a JUX...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christian, nostalgia,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Gentle Patterns
Shifting sands beneath me leave soft impressions
Like the gentle etchings upon my pages
It is not my goal to create a pattern
Ever enduring



February 3, 2019...

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Categories: introspection,
Form: Sapphic stanza



Simulacrum
   Scintillating hues disperse on blank canvas,
        electric essence sparks azure palate mauve;
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Categories: imagination,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Dragon's Tooth
A top the verdant mountains of nirvana,
A most limitless effulgent radiance
Across azure sky, spilled crimson horizon;
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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fantasy,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Kokopelli
Listen!  There’s a melody wafting sweetly,

Tempting blossoms liltingly. Watch enchantment!

Kokopelli’s bringing the beauty nearer.

Magical flautist!

For the Sapphic Stanza Number Three - Poetry Contest of...

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Categories: spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Still Night
Still night, calm night, night ever quiet, peaceful,
Be thou always here when the day is over;
Restful, silent, filled with the fallen dewdrops,
Gleaming in moonlight.

Still night,...

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Categories: creation, moon, mystery, night,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Springtime Flowers
 

deep and dreamy, whispering, calling softly
falling teardrops, memories, sadly floating
hearing mother murmuring from the garden
talking to flowers



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March 26, 2015


Poetry/Sapphic Stanza/springtime flowers
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Categories: dream, flower,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Amber Prints
Lady fair meandering verdant hillside
Tracing amber prints of a night that glimmers
With the vintage lace from a rosy springtime
Breathless her senses.





Sapphic Stanza # 3 of...

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Categories: beauty, seasons,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Moorland
Winter’s dusk forlorn on the moor has found me.

Sky has cried its tears; now I soak in stillness.

All at once, I hear in the gloaming...

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Categories: hope,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Sapphic
Holding Adonis

In another place and another lifetime,
gazing into eyes that gazed back with passion.
Kissing you, loving you and how you touched me.
Summer’s moon watched us.

Are...

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Categories: lost love, , sweet
Form: Sapphic stanza
Sappho
Crimson lips, lovers awaken with a kiss
Creamy white skinned Goddesses resting
In a time where Socrates lusted after Sappho's 
Poetry and art.
 
The Grecian people worshiped...

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Categories: love
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member Spring Promise
Spring Promise


Longed-for joyous promise—our Spring delivers
Budding Crocus, Pansy, Magnolia, Dogwood,
Easter's symbol, Lily so white, arisen
Life from dead Winter.


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
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Categories: spring,
Form: Sapphic stanza

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