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Best Adonis Poems

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Premium Member Innocence Lost
In the midst of midnight dreams,
like a whisper, soft and subtle,
her soul floated like a butterfly.

Reaching the province of Paphian passion,
portraying Aphrodite's desire for Adonis,
solitude...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adonis, passion,
Form: Free verse



The Last Good Days of Innocence
A rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is...

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Categories: adonis, innocence, lost, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Indelible
I was seventeen, had one year left of high school and a boyfriend I didn't even love. It was the end of summer, and I...

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Categories: adonis, happiness, high school, lost
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Me Like You Mean It
See me; don’t just look at me.
Gaze into my warmth. . .adoringly.
Don’t utter words when the eyes can say so much.
Trace my face with your...

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Categories: adonis, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Still Water
“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God." Yasmin Mogahed

When you hide behind...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adonis, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our First Crush
There was a time when I was young,
My cousin Glenn and I,
Did fall in love with one young man,
Whose face and form were fine.

He had...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adonis, childhood,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Dew Diaries
I was a world famous fashion designer, and quite enraptured with the new,
Like first caress of pink, peach dawn light, smiling at the full moon's...

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Categories: adonis, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Summer Fling
A delight for female eyes was his gorgeous face and strong physique;
His dark eyes lured them in, but his kisses left them spellbound.
The beauty of...

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Categories: adonis, passion, daffodils,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Crimson Rose
Crimson Rose 

Against all odds, your destiny, 
To live and grow, your history...
You grew and bloomed with all your might 
With drops of rain and...

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Categories: adonis, allegory, art, mythology, rose,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Rambling - POTD
Rambling across the grassy flowering meadow,
She felt like walking on air, as she flipped off her shoes,
She ran across, feeling the dewy fresh morning grass,
All...

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Categories: adonis, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Ivory Perpetual Romance Prevails
He came to me with skin like ivory,
although his eyes and hair were dark as night.
He came with one year past his eighteenth year.
I, with...

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Categories: adonis, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come With Me
Come with me, I'll take you to the prom.
You're my heart throb as everyone knows.
Come with me, we'll play through the night, 
And I'll be...

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Categories: adonis, dance, love, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Aphrodite's Rose
From a garden I would seek
a flower so much more unique,
something quite sophisticated,
leaves lovers much intoxicated. 

This thought distressed my heart to sigh  
which...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adonis, beauty, flower, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 1980 Our Year In Love
The depth of our love has an infinite range,
as I reminisce on the day that we met.
I will always remember your deepest voice,
a mellifluous sound...

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Categories: adonis, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
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: adonis, lost love, , sweet
Form: Sapphic stanza

Book: Reflection on the Important Things