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Best Absinthian Poems

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Premium Member Drowning In Jezebel's Absinthian Beauty
From the anise do I awaken.
Molten sugar dribbles into my veins;
O languor! My mind’s overtaken—.
The green fairy has me forsaken in pain;
a siren, she beckons...

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Categories: absinthian, corruption, lust, metaphor, woman,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Dichotomy
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were...

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Categories: absinthian, analogy, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverie of Wonder
"In the absence of complication,
     trials and tribulations become distant memories.
          Above...

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Categories: absinthian, appreciation, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Poem I
Bitter as wormwood or Turkish coffee,
absinthian abandon;
this passion stings and burns.
Cheeks blaze with the scarlet sign and stigma
and your teeth leave their signature on my...

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Categories: absinthian, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soliloquy and Silhouette
SOLILOQUY AND SILHOUETTE

Soliloquy and silhouette, a lively dance,
A sideways glance, such dalliance of form.

In Verona, this jester must be serious. Stance -
Shoulders back, feet set,...

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Categories: absinthian, hate, love,
Form: Rhyme



Eyes
stormy raindrops enlightened by an absinthian glow

How much, how far you have seen, to bring about so much bliss

kings and prophets have led you to...

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Categories: absinthian, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Muse In Space
They say in space, no one can hear screams; 
so I go there in sleep just to scream.

OBE’s are one beautiful escape; 
muse must release...

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Categories: absinthian, imagination, muse, space, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mother Gaia
You pour through my soul
Absinthian elixir
My Mother Gaia.

Sunsets of Ruby,
Elysian fields, golden;
Amethyst mountains.

I taste Bing cherry
Concord Grape fermentation
Tangerine orange.

I drink heartily
I pray for supplication
Needing sustenance.
...

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Categories: absinthian, appreciation, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs