Best Apart Poems

You're a maiden so hot burning thoughts 
whom melts ice inside deep waves salted 
unfolding ocean swells kissing your feet 
For once spoke those hot lips the truth shining 

Sunshine pleasing warm beholding to 
one's eye golden crowned jewel beauty 
rainbow luster coloring pearl treasure...

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Each step I take along the way is more than I can endure
and every curve in the lonesome road becomes a detour
back to you because movin' on is somethin' I just can't do,
not if movin' on means no longer will I be with you

I can't...

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I remember for the very first time hearing
Words that had not been experienced
But on reflection treated the subject matter well
And I have heard singers sing like impostors
Because it was not there words
That they took to the stage to sell
But what is the wordsmith
Without the tortured...

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A letter came from Jim 
I’d better go to him
 
I’ll buy a rowing boat,
then try to stay afloat!
 
Must cross the ocean quick-
Oh toss! I get sea sick

I miss my dear sweetheart
No kiss since we're apart

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Always together; Eternally Apart
Raven and the Wolf

A raven beauty lurks in an endless banquet 
of shifting, ashen foggy moonlit night.
Burst of stimulating woven blanket;
lovers sail onto the last laced breath flight.
Rhythmic chants echo veiled in sound and light.

The black ominous raven flies by day.
Her lover,...

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I stared deeply into his dreamy deep blue eyes
So full of passionate love, they could not disguise
He’d call me his dove, I scarcely believed he was mine
Safely wrapped in his loving arms, we’d gently entwine
I’d succumb to his charms and be simply floating on air
When...

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And when do these empty minutes
Become gifted tomorrows

Does the love from a crooked smile
Coagulate into a joyful tear

Can the touch from a veritable want
Blend into reformed breaths of a tilted gratitude

What purpose would ultimatums serve,
If it only knew what should not
Be taken for granted

When do...

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I Remember Fierce Storm That Blew My Life Apart

I remember fierce storm that blew my life away.
Images burned into a sad, finely tortured mind;
reminds me of that epic and dark fateful day,
tears falling down but no good answers could I find.

So in love with my...

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Collaboration poem:
Jason Williams
Darren White

This is also posted on our collaboration page, but for as long as we don't have a premium membership, I will post it here too, so I can add a picture and soundfile to it. 

Voice: Jason Williams

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misty horizon

oceans separate his lips

from drops on her cheeks


Or 


oceans part his lips

from wet drops marking her cheeks

misty horizon...

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I feel so sad…so lonely,
Wish you were here to hold me.
Now that you’re gone,
All I can do is mourn.

Wish I could take back all that I’ve done,
So we can re-unite; together as one.
I miss you; I am so tired of crying,
Oh GOD! You know I’m...

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She slips away silently, to escape mothers screams
And crawls so softly, into bed, into dreams

His dreams became so dark
Left them to his escape into the dark
To dream open eyes outside window 
Across his vision he saw as light lost its flicker 

Loss for air she...

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the moon tonight through your eyes
my sky is in your voice
and how i miss you so



Submitted on September 27, 2022 for contest 2022 POETRY MARATHON MILE 15 sponsored by MARK TONEY

Originally posted on September 13, 2022...

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In the end, we were there-not there,
two present absentees 
sharing an apartment vacated by a relationship 
and the worst kind of loneliness -- feeling solitary next to someone --
partners in the crime of abetting mutual misery,
though neither of us can really be linked 
to the...

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A daughter~

Believe in the space between us, and in the force that ties us in.

We never have to try for who we are as one.

Like the tide to the moon and the fierceness of

the sun.

I’d wipe your tears from heaven for my hand is already...

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