Best Bare Poems

Beneath the hum of porch light
You caress my fragrant skin,
While these eyes undress a gaze 
Deepening breaths to ignite.

As we move like moistened curves,
From a heated rendezvous
I become a flamed woman…
A rhythm of dusk immersed.

And a thousand moths quiver
Glowing on open window
Of porch light’s swelling...

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THE BARE INFINITIVE

Look: up above the stratosphere 
Outside the earth's blanket veneer
Beyond planets stars and galaxy 
Past even faintest nebulae

Far from the pull of gravity
Free of Dark Matter's hidden vector
In existential cavity
Untied to any spacial sector

All human weakness risen above
In solo freedom primitive 
Beyond the...

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On these bare walls 
there once hung
artwork that was picked by you,
which you'd then picked over,
leaving only a needlepoint 
your mother made for our wedding 
and a picture an alcoholic friend gave you
of a bear

How ironic now, 
it seems, they're not so bare
since I've hung...

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the bare branch
as with other things
the mystery is gone...

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There are painful pitfalls to happiness
No one, not I, is immune to misery's tragic tune.
We cry in the night like a wolf baying at the moon,
sullen, soulful songs of heartbreak and despair,
drifting upon air. Of those memories; beware.

My emotions may seem as dormant as a...

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Autumn winds keep taunting gold and russet leaves
as they cling for life to swaying branches of trees.
Each year I find it woeful, and my heart sadly grieves
when Nature strips them with a whirlwind breeze.

As they cling for life to swaying branches of trees,
my seasonal thoughts...

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My muse stays in the background
when work takes up my time,
as soon as I’m relaxing
she comes – partner in crime.

She begs with much insistence
inclined to get her way,
she meets with no resistence,
my doubts are kept at bay.

Each mood affects my writing
in calm or urgent style.
Once...

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Upon this Naked Parchment Bare
by M. Griswold
07202022

Every stroke is dimensional against this naked parchment bare.
Until the words appear, getting them to share their mystery there.
And when the master makes them dance and line-up in their roles.
Each noun or verb speaks its own tone, whether tis...

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You see no parcels 'neath my Christmas tree,
no shiny paper, bows on ribbons bright,
take not this sight to mean that there won't be
presents bestowed upon this Christmas night.
For God has left me gifts you cannot see,
compassion, mercy, kindness, friendship true,
a generous heart, support and sympathy
and...

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haiku poetry
seventeen syllables poem
now i am finished...

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Autumn’s pretty dress drifts slowly to the ground 
She shivers as the rich russet robe gently  falls
Her dress dances in the breeze, making a rustling sound

It floats down leaving a crunchy blanket under our feet
We must wait for spring until her green dress is...

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It is so lonely under the starry sky.
Our soul shells washed away with the speed of life.
Emotion bones faded.
With an empty eye of own skeletons,
they count the stars on the cosmic vault,
seeking for the meaning of the life show. 
* 
Surrounded by a multitude -...

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''Bare''
Dead whilst alive,
Forgotten yet solidly visible,
Underestimated but still the best there is.............
The sound of disappointment!
I am searching for a boy long forgotten,
Left for the bushes, never returned,
Still finding himself among st devours of life and thorns of deception,
Running for the hills,
In search of his purpose.
My...

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bare naked hostel
consumed by the flames of lust —
her existence moot

7/7/2019
Senryu about Greed, Lust or Loss. Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
5/7/5 per howmanysyllables.com...

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Leave Me Now
Always leaning against the sycamore
Where leaves and shadows play upon your face
Standing solitary in evenings's softened light
You touched me once
In the midst of siren sounds and steel
You summoned and I refused your darkness
Yet your breath brushed my face gently
And your presence promised a...

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