Best Bare Bones Poems

 
Oh, the forest whispers to me,
as stained leaves on the ground crinkle;
and birds chirp and trill in a tree,
but too soon those leaves will...

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i am the skeleton tree
bare branches where leaves
are suppose to be
i am the skeleton tree
bare bones and no flesh
not another me
i am the skeleton tree
thousands...

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You say you love me but you’re not
You say you’re going to fight and give it all you got
You say you find it hard to...

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bare bones silhouette
braves the storm in solitude -
snow laden branches


Susan Ashley 
August 20, 2019


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Premiere Contest: One Haiku
Sponsor: Rick Parise 


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AT THE FINAL GOODBYE

The congregation
mingled within the silent
stone slabs of their
ancestors, a final goodbye
to yet another
destined to leave this place.
Yet to one, in this his
profound...

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Soulful secrets and sorrowful sighs
silently stoke smoldering embers
of inspiration; into full flame.

A murmuration of fledgling words
rise on poetic wings; to digest
the very essence of the...

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Crackling, crunchy leaves confetti the ground
as skeleton trees rattle their bare bones.
And gusty winds howl like a soulful hound
while kids mope indoors, glued to their...

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The skeletal remains are being chalked out,while mystery and intrigue are engraven, cryptic.Lying beneath, this freshly seeded idea;upon these grounds, the words are etched,what are...

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Warm breaths morph into a November ghost,
a spectral mist that swiftly dissipates.
And barren trees lament the loss of leaves
as Autumn approaches where Winter waits.

The wind...

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You were the first promise I was willing to keep,
my first hope that something could last forever.

You were the first time I opened up like...

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“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh...

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y'all know me-     I'm in the poem biz     
and it is a no brainer   ...

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Two eagles hover over the bare bones of a poem
leaving choice morsels for the appetite of the other.
And with poetic hunger, they devour each other's...

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I always arise
     at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
     radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
   ...

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Sunset

last rays share the sea
with bare bones of pirate ship
beautiful in death

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Contest: sunset haiku
sponsor: P. D.
Written : 8th November 2011...

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