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Best Ascetic Poems

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Premium Member Sadly Musing Life and Love
I sit alone as evening claims the day,
with common crow my only confidant.
I watch the sun sink slowly in the bay
while musing life and love...

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Categories: ascetic, lonely, lost love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Duchess and the Dunce
so look at us, the princess and her fool
          this painted jester - just a silly...

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Categories: ascetic, analogy, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lost To Words Poetic
Humble heart naked like a winter tree,
yearns for seasons to remain evergreen.
Furtive eyes have disturbed this reverie,
soul stands still like nonchalant figurine. 

Walking away to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ascetic, loss, lost love, love
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My Lasting Memory of You
Humble this moment under skies of grey
Reading poems of furtive words wrote with you,
Contemplating where you are now this day
With an ascetic mind of times...

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Categories: ascetic, love, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Beyond Love
The sun will rise,the sun will set,
no more love will life beget;
The day will break,the moon to rise,
no more love,as this life dies;
The Summer heat,or...

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Categories: ascetic, autumn, life, love, sun,
Form: Kyrielle



Premium Member In Belladonna Berries Love Was Paid
With lies you tried to hide your furtive eyes~
but breadcrumbs left impressions you betrayed,
and finding out the truth behind your guise
did shatter loving life that...

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Categories: ascetic, betrayal, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Love So Shallow
Love so shallow

I am, what I am, just a humble man
You are a star, seen only from afar
With furtive glances, I devised a plan
Your eyes...

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Categories: ascetic, break up, emotions, first
Form: Sonnet
Yet, He Died
YET, HE DIED

We are here to mourn our friend,
Who led an ascetic life?
Shrewd, astute and virtuous as he was,
He died.

Upright as himself, second to none
His...

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Categories: ascetic, satire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Only Love I'Ll Ever Know
The furtive temper of your quiet eyes
Was nonchalant with shrouded reasons kept
My love so humble from your death it cries
A poison pain drawn from life's...

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Categories: ascetic, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where Youth Did Tread
(An Addingham poem)

‘There!  Where every curve
injects another memory.’

Analytic beauty that
nestled in verdant valley
allows the mind to review,
where archaic dry-stone walls
enhance the ancestral ghosts,
impeccable trees,...

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Categories: ascetic, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dunes of Broken Heart
A full moon you blush in the condensed sky
Riding the lone cloud I tried to reach you
Furtive desire couldn’t grow wings to fly
Silver lines formed...

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Categories: ascetic, hope, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
In the grey shadow of voiceless days
In the grey shadow of voiceless days,  
I, a dreamer laborer, a faceless specter,  
Under the silent vault that never opens its eyes,...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ascetic, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Die As If Lived Forever
Life is beautiful
Happiness is state of mind
Spiritual pursuit elevates soul 
Alexander too departed with empty hand

Happiness is state of mind
Emperors too faced gloom’s wrath
Alexander too...

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Categories: ascetic, death, lifesenses,
Form: Pantoum
Moksha Karak
Moksha Karak 

So what is the individual result of Bavgt Venus. 
Is it fruit of thought from the sun?
Ascendant Ketu is the Vedic text that...

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Categories: ascetic, culture, destiny, faith, film,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A School Question
“What are we ever going to use this for?” 
Students ask every single school day.
So sit back, grab a coffee, get comfortable, 
And all the...

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Categories: ascetic, education, teacher, teenage,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs