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Best Awaits Poems

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Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: awaits, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?



One Brief Moment
Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...

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Categories: awaits, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: awaits, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Midnight Poet
Whisper's of October  

Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream 
Warding off the howling sound...

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Categories: awaits, addiction, character, devotion, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: awaits, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: awaits, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: awaits, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirrored Reflections
Receive
Listen
Be Still

Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time

I look down to...

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Categories: awaits, appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted-

Deep cuts from within.
She faced bravely the many hardships of womanly life
How did she end up like this?
Severe depression after her first mental breakdown
Sorrow...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awaits, absence, abuse, change, depression,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awaits, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dancing With Mom
When I was just a wee one
          my mom taught me to dance
   ...

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Categories: awaits, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet
For a Friend
A wise and sentimental one
              Who lived and loved some years ago
Had...

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Categories: awaits, appreciation, for her, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Needed Wings Today
To my Poetry Soup friends - this was written as a thank
you note for all of your beautiful, uplifting gifts of poetry 
and comments. Your...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awaits, hope, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: awaits, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member When I Talk To You
When I talk to you, I'm talking to the wall -
to photos arranged across from where you hung the paintings
made by your own two hands....

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Categories: awaits, absence, woman,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs