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Best Assay Poems

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Premium Member King Arthur - a Collaboration With Darren White
He is the king of words and poets alike
Assay as you may, this man you won’t smite
His armour sparkles in night or day
Defending those too...

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Categories: assay, art, friend, friendship,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Memorial To Martin Luther King Jr
Words would fail me if I might assay
To articulate the courage of this man.
The numerous facets of his dossier
Are subject for song in a distant...

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Categories: assay, death, dedication, faith, history,
Form: Rhyme
Books a Resource Vi
Books are our friends hey!
Don’t throw them away;
Keeping ourselves array
So that we be at assay
With books positively lay
For scrutiny at a ballet.
They – best pals...

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Categories: assay, books,
Form: Monorhyme
Pursuance
I wonder the words to pen here,
Once I said you those three words
And you assayed a story thereafter.
Few letters were found brushed off
Few were found...

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Categories: assay, hope, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Penelope Alecknavage
Penelope Alecknavage nee perskin whose death aye assay
to comprehend, this son of the late Harriet Harris - 
   November thirteenth 2016 marked her...

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Categories: assay, absence, beautiful, bereavement, death,
Form: Ode



Wooded Cottage of Highwayman
Nestled deep in the tawny, drab woodland
Sedate cottage neither haughty nor grand
Sparse hovel of unassuming, itinerant brigand
Martial decor of detached highwayman starkly bland
The etched path...

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Categories: assay, adventure, courage, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love To Immortalise
Strong storm blew the boat until it did strand
Upon rock_ shore so very far away.
Please my gentle lover give me your hand
There is no way...

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Categories: assay, fantasy, life, love, mystery,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Exquisite Love Grasping Hands
The eye-to-eye association flick life away. 
Pretty natural tones ring out in my flyway 
Light, invisible hands bait me to the clay. 
It's excessively captivating...

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Categories: assay, allusion, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Monorhyme
Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
 ...

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Categories: assay, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Tears
Thrills and spills grow a fine grain;
Explore the poise of profound hurts;
Ask for the will to bear with pain;
Reap your sure choice to purge all...

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Categories: assay, change,
Form: Sonnet
Theres a Pedophile In the House
There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)

OMG,... and he looks...
     SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
     absolutely...

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Categories: assay, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy
Only One Way
Ah, God, the way your little finger moved 
As you thrust a bare arm backward 
And made play with your hair 
And a comb a...

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Categories: assay, art, history, sorry, heart,
Form: Villanelle
Plato Complete
[ Form - Rap ]

( "Love's Survival" is a paucity. The proper dress is ice-skates and blind-folds. - © 1998 - R.W. )


what to do...

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Categories: assay, allusion, symbolism,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Requiem For a Lost Specimen of Poesy
Into what wisp of cloud or clod did my poem flee?
Into what minuscular pinch of diaphanous, free-floating empyreal, stratospheric air did my figurative furled parchment...

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Categories: assay, absence, abuse, adventure, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer
One day I scribbled
Letters dear to me upon dust
A name more precious than gems and diamonds
Resting in timeless fortune.

Then came storms of wind
Erasing my precious...

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Categories: assay, love,
Form: Free verse

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