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Best An Ill Wind Poems

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Premium Member A Tribute To Daddy
You were the oak in our family tree,
With roots that were strong and true,
Holding on so tenaciously
No ill wind could topple you.
We nestled under your...

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Categories: an ill wind, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P Clark
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom 
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and  Michael P Clarke.


Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my...

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Categories: an ill wind, art, creation, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The White Roses Died With You
We planted roses in the spring
when love was floating in the air.
A diamond glittered on your ring
reflected in your hazel eyes
the rainbow hues of paradise.
We...

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Categories: an ill wind, change, sad,
Form: Rhyme
A Musing
She said, if I correctly recall,                  
That, for...

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Categories: an ill wind, destiny, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poe Tree
I stood on a rocky shoal, regret lingering on my mind
Its fingers traced blood-filled lines along my bare arm
as if brittle veins in leaves, fallen...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: an ill wind, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mortality Smothers
life is a feather on the wind ~ fallen from a sparrow who's not sinned

borne and adrift upon the air ~ brushed away like a...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: an ill wind, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Mockingbird - Crown of Sonnets
#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from...

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Categories: an ill wind, children, discrimination, integrity, prejudice,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold
Such Wonders Are Breathtaking To Behold

(NOT FOR CONTEST THAT INSPIRED THIS POEM)

The morning dew on red rose does glisten
As early dawning sun beams brightly down
Such...

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Categories: an ill wind, art, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mother Nature Misbehaves
An ill wind blows this hurricane Sandy ashore,
Making everyone wonder just what is in store.
The full moon will amplify the already large waves,
And Mother Nature...

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Categories: an ill wind, natural disasters, nature, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crossing That Siberian Desert of Lost Souls
("" In order for the light to shine so brightly,
 the darkness must be present""  -Francis Bacon)

Crossing That Siberian Desert Of Lost Souls

No joy,...

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Categories: an ill wind, appreciation, creation, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Force My Drink, Dark Poison To Swallow
I Force My Drink, Dark Poison To Swallow

Chastise me in my deep, darkest sorrow,
young lad of hopes and meandering streams.
I long for relief now not...

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Categories: an ill wind, art, conflict, dark, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member At the Knife Edge of That Deep, Dark Abyss
At The Knife Edge Of That Deep, Dark Abyss

I that was born on a dark, stormy night
So gifted at young age, deeper insight,
Lead to safety...

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Categories: an ill wind, creation, motivation, passion, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lost and Alone, Surviving Cold, Hard Streets
Lost And Alone, Surviving Cold, Hard Streets

Hole in her heart matched the hole in her dress
She was now alone, life was such a mess.
First that...

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Categories: an ill wind, bereavement, dark, fate, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Nation Betrayed
With loving heart and caring hands
I soothe your pain, I bathe your wounds
An ill wind blew and sapped your strength
There was not much that you...

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Categories: an ill wind, betrayal, corruption, pain,
Form: Ode
The Gulls Cry
The Gulls’ cries shrill in the night
Onto my thoughts they impose
I envy their wings and their melancholy songs
Carried over the ill wind that blows

I am...

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Categories: an ill wind, conflict, lonely, longing, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

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