Best Accompanying Poems
Hidden Beauty
...Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus ......
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Categories:
accompanying, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series
...(1.) Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series
Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard
At the start comes just a solitary word
oft from a distant echo, it is heard.
Imagination ......
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Categories:
accompanying, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form:
Sonnet
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse
...
O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten sailor......
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Categories:
accompanying, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Last Letter To My Beloved
...Oh beloved of mine,
Soon time shall no longer be a companion of ours,
as the journey ends, our destination remains unclear.
You would always say my words are my gift,
so I leave t......
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Categories:
accompanying, loss, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love Remains Alive In Death - Collaboration With Silent One
...
A Collaboration w/Silent One
Flowers you placed on the window
now wilt, crumbling in my palm
Their scent seems to have transcended,
accompanying you to the heavens
Your fragra......
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Categories:
accompanying, grief, loneliness, loss, sad
Form:
Romanticism
A Soft Kiss
...As the sun plants a soft kiss, good bye
And leaves its imprint upon an evening sky
Rich reds, soft pink and violet hues
At times observed by oh, so few
He marks the path for sister moon
For h......
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Categories:
accompanying, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
My Worst Day, Bar None
...I was a public relations specialist, ever promoting positivity to people,
As positivity is promoted afar, by the sight of the towering cathedral.
My work was very interesting, there weren't ever ......
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Categories:
accompanying, confusion, fantasy, life, magic,
Form:
Couplet
Monet's Garden
...The gate to Monet’s Japanese garden’s open,
beckoning, and green as Giverny’s winter wheat,
but there’s no time to glimpse the pond’s lilies within.
Monet’s Rose Cottage-locked to all but the w......
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Categories:
accompanying, art, travel, vacation,
Form:
Villanelle
Bathing Beauty
...her husband made her
a beautiful scented bath…
pity it’s outdoors!
Inspired by the above picture which was taken by my hubby when we were out walking today
AWARDED POTD 3RD SEPTEM......
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Categories:
accompanying, flower, garden, giggle, humorous,
Form:
Senryu
A - Anarchy
...A. Anarchy
Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the adamant arsonist; the artful anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The ascended adv......
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Categories:
accompanying, america, art, community, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Therapeutic Democracy
...Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.
Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.
Democracy seems......
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Categories:
accompanying, community, earth, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Refreshing Spring Showers
...After a soft spring shower last night, the air was washed clean
And saturated mother earth brings to life nature's bounty
Wisteria, Jasmine, and Azeala's scent wafts perfuming the cleansed air
L......
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Categories:
accompanying, nature, spring, earth, green,
Form:
Free verse
Late Night Treat
...It is already late while I see
Those kids still play hide and seek
Dance around that pole which lacked of paint
The cockroach underneath tried to escape, run for a life
A night with an empty sky
Tho......
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Categories:
accompanying, inspiration, joy, night,
Form:
Light Verse
First Halloween
...I was yet a child
With a smile so sweet and a temper so mild
I was yet a child, so ecstatic
For it was here, at last, the night known to be so bleak
Halloween, here at last
Why, with honeyed c......
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Categories:
accompanying, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
The Needle Stings But Sews
...Grandmother sits in her rocking chair
nearly as old as she
ragged patches of scrap spread across her lap.
She tells stories from her eighty years of senescence,
of faces now aged, some no l......
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Categories:
accompanying, caregiving, family, life, nostalgia,
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