Best Arresting Poems
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker...These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will be your kn......
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Categories:
arresting, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Lady In Green POTD...I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.
Lost in my work, I took it seriously, for cre......
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Categories:
arresting, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form:
Couplet
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley...These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will be your kn......
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Categories:
arresting, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Thought Police...I'm afraid
So afraid
Of being arrested
By the thought police
Their rules are many
Think this
Think that
Don't diverge from the normal
Stop playing on the street corner of tomorrow
Let sleeping dogs ......
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Categories:
arresting, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
O Glorious Autumn...O glorious Autumn of melancholic
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter insid......
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Categories:
arresting, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Escaping Rhymed Detonation...Malevolent imploded uncontrollably,
twisting wildly maniacal posies
amid diabolically toasted brainstem,
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses
purging stinging speech patterned rhymes
......
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Categories:
arresting, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Imagism
The Ballymurphy Massacre...Martin Luther King junior was the inspiration
For the Northern Ireland, Civil Rights association
Protests were held and they marched peacefully
The unionist majority tried to stop them brutall......
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Categories:
arresting, ireland, murder, soldier,
Form:
Narrative
My Worst Day, Bar None...I was a public relations specialist, ever promoting positivity to people,
As positivity is promoted afar, by the sight of the towering cathedral.
My work was very interesting, there weren't ever ......
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Categories:
arresting, confusion, fantasy, life, magic,
Form:
Couplet
The Crow Bar...
"The Crow Bar"
she said,
here I bury my dead,
you can hear them sleeping
somnulent forget-me-nots,
snoring blithely unaware,
in neat rows between
the thick,
ink injec......
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Categories:
arresting, love, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Old Mirror and Her Lil Girl...
She is silent & she plays
Mostly she has books before her face
She rarely come to me
& ran away as fast as she could
I know her since her childhood
She is my Lil girl
& I'm an ol......
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Categories:
arresting, break up, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Metamorphosed...I see their intentions,
In their trances of manipulation,
Mind-warping affection, they laid upon you,
And knowingly you feed on what I thought you were absorbing…
You lash out at me screaming......
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Categories:
arresting, beauty, freedom, growth, heart,
Form:
Epic
In the Land of Giants...Early one morning, as fresh springtime was just ending,
I was hiking in the woods, and overhearing the birds sing.
And with a tranquil heart, and lost in a deep green world,
I was reveling in th......
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Categories:
arresting, adventure, fantasy, friendship love,
Form:
Couplet
Catharsis...Why don’t you come now
To the plot of blue river shore
Where we would
In an intense chocolate mood
Sit in a sun rise satisfaction
On the grainy sand
And create pearl drops of time
From the rh......
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Categories:
arresting, chocolate, creation, happiness, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Price of Pearls...
"The Price of Pearls"
a strange time
just as a dream
to a place of strangeness
strangers
walking contretemps' fine lines
composing invis......
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Categories:
arresting, magic, poetess, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Changing Times...Virtues of reverent past no longer rhyme
With sense of now rushing through time
As troubled voice shudders in forlorn sigh
While remnants of yore earnestly decry
Vigor of life passing by, smiles ......
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Categories:
arresting, change,
Form:
Rhyme