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Best Ably Poems


Premium Member Lift Somebody's Dawn
...Learn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks 
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile as the world goes by

When beset in c......

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Categories: ably, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Tower Rebuilt
...I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
......

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Categories: ably, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Golden Dusty Days
...Long gone are the golden
Dusty days!
Where once, like Blazons
On Armorial Shields,
The gathered bronze sheaths 
stood -
Cut through at the stalk...
Raised from time honoured
swathes.

Burni......

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Categories: ably, autumn, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



A Gnome's Life
...I would write a little poem
if I weren't a little gnome
Little gnomes have gnarled fingers
where no pen can ably linger

All my writing's done, you see
by my faithful secret'ry
For she's twice......

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Categories: ably, humorous, mythology, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shoo
...I was a competent, happy housewife, but that was before my husband died,
Leaving me to rear myriad children solo, as the lone star twinkles with pride.

John had left us a prosperous farm,......

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Categories: ably, age, children, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member And Still I Drive - Part One
...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall 
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; ......

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Categories: ably, heartbreak, places,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Ii
...Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy......

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Categories: ably, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And Still I Drive - Part Two
...Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhea......

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Categories: ably, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Put Them Out of Sight Now
...Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard 
Bare.
Wrapped in stiff brown pap......

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Categories: ably, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whispers
...

Whispers

How can I ever forget the evening we first met
Under the twilight of placid sun about to set
When your sweet whispers ably set me afire 
As I embraced in earnest your l......

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Categories: ably, love, romantic, , sweet
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Village On the Water Iii
...Shallow-pitched tiled rooftops sparkle vividly
 When lavishly sprinkled with needle-shaped grains  
Of shattered mutton-fat nephrite; 
    There, clinging forlornly against the hanging grey   
  ......

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Categories: ably, community, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keeping Up With the Boneses
...Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part o......

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Categories: ably, fairy, magic, music, princess,
Form: Other
Islam
...International faith
Identical for your thought 
Idolatry rejected
 
Surrender to God
Submit high morality
Safety to your heart

Light in the darkness
Largess liberality 
Last justice lawful......

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Categories: ably, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Autumn Leaves - Group of Ten Old College Mates
...AUTUMN LEAVES-GROUP OF TEN COLLEGE MATES
==============

Summer ends, Autumn comes,
Days become shorter and shorter.
The green in the leaves fades away,
And red and orange take its place.

"A......

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Categories: ably, together,
Form: Free verse
Aphrodite As An Anthropomorphic Map
...The goddess we call Aphrodite
Is not just an old Grecian deity.
  The Phoenicians did make
  Her a map. It's not fake.
Her body is cartograffiti.

The Punic war destroyed her face, 1
The Roman......

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Categories: ably, africa, body, imagery, language,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry