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Best Balanced Poems

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Premium Member dancing with mom -
when I was just a wee one
        my mom taught me to dance
     ...

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Categories: balanced, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Those Words
I speak my thoughts with gentleness
The things I need to say with care
Thoughts held in my hands, gone through my fingers,
balanced on my fingertips...
... sent...

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Categories: balanced, inspirational, metaphor, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: balanced, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soul’s Cry
Another lost noon, 
engraved as unforgettable 
memoirs within my mind, 
I’m rethinking of rewriting
and rewinding revoked 
reflections of a love rekindled. 
My eager heart
is now...

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Categories: balanced, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contemplating Calculations
You could say:  
       Variety attracts a free spirit, a soul with curiosity - 
   ...

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Categories: balanced, simple, words,
Form: Rhyme



The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: balanced, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Dear Humanity:
Dear Humanity:

You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new...

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Categories: balanced, corruption, earth, humanity, pollution,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member My Brick and Piece of Lumber
Mighty proud was I
with me lumber in one hand
my brick me carried in the other
I placed the brick in the barn yard
tall side for gained...

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Categories: balanced, funny, humanity, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vibrations
a wisp offered him a small bunch of her soul
  
          duet of florets dandelion...

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Categories: balanced, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty In Black
there dwells a darkness in us all
          those shadows trembling faintly
     ...

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Categories: balanced, analogy, beauty, dark, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The One-Legged Sandpiper
I saw a one-legged Sandpiper
today on the beach.
I saw him land on his single pedestal,
it was an artful thing.

Entranced by his disability,
I stood transfixed with...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: balanced, animal, appreciation, bird, judgement,
Form: Free verse
The Forest Green....
As early dawns sunlight, of golden glass....

Now drips from the ambient forest of green

Showers of light reflected, from across the pond

Gazing amid the cabins threshold;...

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Categories: balanced, hope, life, love, timebeautiful,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hidden Beauty
A garden presents a most beautiful sight
When seen from afar in a much broader light,
For there in a setting with all that surrounds,
Its total of...

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Categories: balanced, beauty, garden, people,
Form: Couplet
Sitting On the Fence At Twilight
Sitting on the Fence at Twilight

When the sun waved good-bye in the afternoon,
I’d say hello to the smiling Man in the Moon. 
Perching on our...

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Categories: balanced, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inside the Hurricane
"Inside the Hurricane"



Inside the Hurricane
starts small

a minuet waltzing
cadence like clandestine lovers

whispered reverently 
soft becomes hard 

and slow for a fall
under dark cloudy covers

boiling over 
to...

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Categories: balanced, psychological, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things