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Best Amid Poems

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Premium Member - Amid the Jagged Shadows -
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

               Samuel...

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Categories: amid, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...

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Categories: amid, death, garden, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: amid, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: amid, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sea of Love
The ebb and flow that comes and goes
      with ocean’s deep emotion shows
   that hearts, like knaves, become...

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Categories: amid, love, lust, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love Is My Muse
What if love is my muse,
and you are the rosy
red poem in my soul?
Will you lead 
my ink to feel 
your warm air—
thaw hail in...

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Categories: amid, dance, deep, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shades of My Gloom
In vertigo of night, in their riddled trance 
Boldness of petals melt on washed-out shades,
As faces etch a quiet gloom in varied hues
Capturing splashed oil,...

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Categories: amid, art, color, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amid, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Chimney Swift
My precious chimney swift
Envy alone
Has named you so mundane
Tethered to the slightest pause
Amid your life upon the wing
Describing you as drab
Cigar shaped
And flying like a...

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Categories: amid, appreciation, bird, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: amid, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mustard Seed
The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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Categories: amid, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet
Internal Interview
Living amid the blurred lines of my reflections
Stark cold fears snow me blanket my resolve
Nestled my leafless core begging for rebirth

Patches of life clumped to...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: amid, absence, hope, jobs, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...

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Categories: amid, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October Sun
Ascending above sanctum of horizon, a dawn inflames the effulgent rays,
Enlightening daybreak as embers of light set the scarlet morning ablaze
Projecting golden beams on hushed...

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Categories: amid, autumn, imagery, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond Reach
Beckoned by love, allured by memories,
Embracing missives of delightful dream
Engrossed in sphere of halo mesmerizing
Surrounding her aura in ornate gold ring,
She lifted-off gaily into ethereal,...

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Categories: amid, child, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Verse

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