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Best Allusive Poems

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Premium Member Spider Spun Silk
She returns my gaze when I'm too restless to sleep
   a lustrous pearl mounted, deep set in a sapphire sky
I lie awake in...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allusive, moon, sleep,
Form: Rhyme



Florida Keys Please
No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...

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Categories: allusive, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Butterfly
I pursued a butterfly through the woods.
It fluttered, just always beyond my reach.
The more I pursued, the more it teased.
Stalking it, like prey, it just...

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Categories: allusive, children, philosophy, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Continuum
Life, an infinite continuum
feeding on its own death,
and we, self glorified in its midst,
on knife's edge of infinity,
daydream reflections of time,
mirrored images that seem like...

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Categories: allusive, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Bother
The clock chastises me,
as painted petals bloom brilliance
in illuminated wonder that attempts 
escape from the hidden crevices
deep within my beleaguered mind.

The beauty I seek is...

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Categories: allusive, how i feel, humor,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Lacking Eloquence
Lacking 

Lacking eloquence
Lector lacking

Bullfrogs and lemmings crooning
In the swamp of dim intellect
Spewing their haughtiness
Through their noses the spittle drops
Collecting in murky waters

Their stagnation hiding within...

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Categories: allusive, art, beautiful, bullying, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spring Day
Once the crimson eastern sky lost 
That was the morning guiding star.
Lilac hobbit, Kismet Gem plains, and frost.
Cyan sea-painted eyes to rainbows dare. 
Revived ecstasy and increased...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allusive, analogy, appreciation, beauty, day,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Shadows of Dreams
In unconsciousness, where shadows prance,
An elusive dream, a furtive trance,
Weaves its tendrils through my mind,
Lingering with longing I cannot find.

Evasive visions, forever out of reach,
Dreams...

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Categories: allusive, destiny, dream, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Feel the Sway - Interpretive
Trifle the thoughts living on a breeze
hearts darken twist a loving soul
eased down an anchored way
can't you feel the sway

Oh mother, hear my calls
muttered in...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allusive, absence, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
First Lovers Glance
So cloyingly allusive and eagerly timid!...

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Categories: allusive, girlfriend-boyfriend, love
Form: Epigram
A Breathe of Fresh Air
We came upon this captivating connection 
Not by force 
But by rejection
People longed for your sexual expressions 
But I know deep down inside that your...

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Categories: allusive, absence, beautiful, celebration, cheer
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 3rd of November
3rd of November
Sleepy day
Ragweed and bitters
Time drips away
Spigot of rum
Rotten limes
In the sink
Missed you again
Newspaper flies
Obits and sports
Lay in the dirt
Dog barks next door
What the...

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Categories: allusive, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wisdom of the Seed
I find it quite strange
how so many people
desire drastic change:
Change would be so simple!
Change would be terrific!
Yet when I ask them,
what kind of change,
they leave...

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Categories: allusive, allegory, analogy, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Gamble With the Wind
Life is full of chances
But the number is not known,
Careful steps and sideward glances
Voice our fear of the unknown.

You've never played this game before
You do...

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Categories: allusive, career, change, faith, family,
Form: Rhyme
Lie's My True Idyll
My cottage becomes a mystical Universe                   ...

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Categories: allusive, beautiful, garden, heaven, how
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Book: Shattered Sighs