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Best Acutely Poems


Premium Member The Night I Fell Like Rain
...You had that future retro look:  two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have ......

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Categories: acutely, destiny, water, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
My Morning Routine
...Breakfast bells ring 
In my stomach and 
I go downstairs in the
Room where deliciousness
Resides with care and love—
Kitchen,
I stumble slowly 
Sinking the moment all in
I take every ......

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Categories: acutely, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, happy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dysfunctional Inner Peace
...The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce 
once so b......

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Categories: acutely, conflict, deep, prejudice, pride,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Three Teeth
...three incisor teeth burst through fresh flesh...
opaque as pearls, strong as love, precious 

beautiful baby babbles assertively
mesmerized by mishmash sounds 
that her astounding mouth can make......

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Categories: acutely, abuse, addiction, childhood, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Down the Road
...It was getting dark
    And they still hadn't  reached
 Then suddenly   the brakes screeched
    And on the side of the road they parked
 They were acutely aware
     That they were in the middle of ......

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Categories: acutely, fear, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Dysfunctional Inner Peace
...The scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally 
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce 
once so b......

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Categories: acutely, analogy, character, feelings, mythology,
Form: Quatrain



Words Like Wine & Water
...It's difficult to fabricate a verse
whose words convey like water in a stream,
but one should try, for there is nothing worse
than words that cannot flow nor form a theme.

I wish to write with ......

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Categories: acutely, introspection, on writing and
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Little Johnnie's Ache
...Little Johnny came home from school with a bellyache    
Naturally Mom feared the most recent local outbreak
Johnnie thankfully had no fever, she suspected it might be a fake
But strange and most ......

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Categories: acutely, crush, growing up, heartbreak,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Two Who Are One
...I think, and you speak my thoughts completely.
Wherein lies truth, if when I die, I lose myself.
My thought and deed lying fallow in decaying tissue.
So I write to save me.
You are in every thoug......

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Categories: acutely, love, time, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part One
...Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz

Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized villages, destroyed the lives and corrupted the s......

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Categories: acutely, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
The 996th Poem
...Fulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid te......

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Categories: acutely, beauty, change, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Into the Heart of a Soulless Existence
...Into The Heart Of A Soulless Existence

Damn these flies! 
There must be a half dozen of them 
Buzzing around my tiny room here, 
Buzzing and humming spasmodically, 
Like tongue-less eunuchs 
......

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Categories: acutely, education, girl, heart, lost
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Free At Last
...Free At Last

How I wish one day just wake up to lie down under the rain
In the dessert, watch an apparition of water and discover 
a fountain where I can approach wet my dry lips imagine 
the unimag......

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Categories: acutely, poetry, , cute,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Black Witch
...Born and raised as a little child in a Witches’ coven,
the Black Witch was indeed a very precocious child
whose hell-spawned soul was seared in Hell’s oven,
and like Medusa herself was a creature ......

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Categories: acutely, allegory, angst, betrayal, evil,
Form: Quatrain
A Haunting Ride
...Riding alone along a path
that runs parallel, north and south
Alongside the Lehigh River
I became acutely aware
of the beautiful surroundings
As they sped pass me on both sides.
As I pe......

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Categories: acutely, nostalgia, , cute,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry