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Best Afflatus Poems

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Afflatus
Cavemen thought only of self preservation and sex.
In someway evolution was faltered.
Man learned to measure:

You cannot hold an inch, or a mile,
you cannot see a...

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Categories: afflatus, life, on writing and
Form: Free verse



-afflatus-
to lose a muse is none but sorrow,
no fuse can chase away the fear-
words shall appear and be near tomorrow

my inspiration is my revelation,
creativity with...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflatus, appreciation, inspiration, life, muse,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Afflatus
We wend through life with hopes of one true love,
          Quite rare, such fits, that match...

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Categories: afflatus, analogy, angel, love, romance,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Divine Afflatus
Leaves of Autumn, burnt orange, yellow, red,
      gold, strewn on the ground decaying,
       ...

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Categories: afflatus, autumn, football,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: afflatus, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Meet Him Halfway
He wears his frame with dignity.
Moves amongst the throng with confidence,
   with a buoyant outlook
      that defies everything...

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Categories: afflatus, abuse, health, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earthly Angel
~   each moment that I spend wrapped in your wings,

          means one less wasted...

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Categories: afflatus, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Finding My Muse
The surging stream cascades in swirling ebullience
Through dancing shadows of swaying trees entranced
The spectral dew drops draping the glinted grass tips
Weave lattice of splendor on...

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Categories: afflatus, fantasy, imagery, inspiration, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Calliope, Chief of the Nine Muses
My muse sighs and leaves me unwell
     and cuckolds me like faithless love
as if she's ne'er my god or belle,
afflatus or...

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Categories: afflatus, bereavement, inspiration, leaving, muse,
Form: Sonnet
Ode To Literature
‘Tis a wondrous bit of structure,
 Literature is indeed
And from this, an insightful glimpse of culture 
Truly marvelous to read
Lest we negate such writings, these...

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Categories: afflatus, poems, , literature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Poesy requires skill and meter,
     and a bard of golden heart;
or he will tire and teeter.
“Ars longa, vita brevis.”

A bard must...

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Categories: afflatus, imagery, inspiration, metaphor, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Psychoanalysis
Freeze frames in colours as those of a charcoal chameleons....

Chain reactions; from old and welcome unto the world ordained

Amid continuums about temporal dimensions; confirmed afflatus

***************************************************

....“Afore...

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Categories: afflatus, hope, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Piano Chords
Preposterous melody won't exist,
Inside a piano without the chord's beat
Aubade is formed when dolefulness emits
Nails the body to where she always sits;
Ordering her fingers to...

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© Denise L.M  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afflatus, how i feel, life,
Form: ABC
Page 26
Rocket Number 26, take off to the planet and contrive page 26,
It’s the missing page from my memoir,
This is my Page 26, story,
I for one...

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Categories: afflatus, anniversary, birthday, planet,
Form: Name
Words To My Mother
Let me……….Let me … Let me in….. Let me in, 
I want you, I miss you…… Mum!
Let me... Let me... Let me... Mum Lead me!
As...

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Categories: afflatus, dedication, mother son, sorrow,
Form: Name

Book: Reflection on the Important Things