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Best Bay Poems

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Keep Our Ghosts At Bay
I feel your pain like it was mine
Having an ability to see your soul
If you hurt and can't speak
Sit here with me for I am...

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Categories: bay, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: bay, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: bay, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



  ...

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Categories: bay, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: bay, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: bay, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nature Speaks To My Soul
I stand alone in natures beauty,
     in the woods by a trickling stream.
I feel the presence of my destiny,
  ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bay, beauty, dream, feelings, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlight
Painting by Edvard Munch, 1895: "Moon Light"

your soft hand trembles in mine
no words are spoken
we observe our ascending full moon 
as we have every month...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bay, death, love, love hurts,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Green- Reborn
GREEN, GREEN, GREEN!!!

My name is Jade Shamrock Green.
I will not eat one single green bean.
When I get mad, I turn green.
I wear my favorite green...

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Categories: bay, funny, holidaygreen,
Form: Rhyme
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: bay, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All That I Have Taken In
At day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...

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Categories: bay, eve, nature, spiritual, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bay, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To Play
Yesterday,

I went home for lunch,

I never go home for lunch.

When I got to our apartment 
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key. 

Francine...

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Categories: bay, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Labrador
If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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Categories: bay, care, creation, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Breath of Sunset
Royal blue sky scattered sapphire clouds
On horizon embroidered in navy blue attire
Summoned by the onset of marigold sun 
Emitting amber gold on tuscan yellow fire
Where...

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Categories: bay, heartbreak, sunset,
Form: Free verse

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