Best Bella Poems

You display your beauty like a rose,

your appearance, at first frail and ghostly,

blooms to fuller view in a sky studded with stars.

O Maiden Of Mystery! home of stillborn 

assignations, misspent dreams and lovers'

convocations, fired with all the grief

you can distill, and all the joy. 

You...

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You display your beauty like a rose, 
your essence frail and ghostly 
blossoms into fuller view, a wondrous pose. 
Maiden of mystery, home of stillborn 
assignations, misspent dreams and lovers' 
celebrations, fired with all the grief 
you can distill, and all the joy. 
You haunt...

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Bella's getting old.
She'll join Brandy and Ginger;
Favorite past dogs.


20150913
Mark Halliday
My Pet...

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Penne and spinach
with walnuts and gorgonzola
on top...ummmmmm.
All the fresh garden salad,
you can eat
and garlic bread sticks, too.

Black forest, cherry cheesecake,
with cherry syrup
rolling down the sides,
of a plate drizzled
the liquid chocolate.

Murals of flowery scenes
and music to set your mood;
old Italy permeates the senses,
while you dine in...

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Oh what a dog was she,
So, sweet and loving to all that she met.
She always so  happy to see  us everyday,
we miss her so very much since she went away.

Life is not same since she's been gone,
Heaven is a place not only for...

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She is as wild as the prickly thistle
That stands proudly on windswept wild rugged moor
Emotional deep as an ocean
As flirtatious and fragile as a butterfly
That graces a simmers day.
Her voice as sweet as the robin 
Her beauty
And very presence
Takes my breath away.

She can be as...

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So Proud of You Bella
By Franklin Price
10/27/2016

So proud of you Bella
AKA Lieutenant Kemp
You've grown to quite woman
In the Air Force, not a wimp

Still excelling as you do 
With more effort than appears
In the top of all your classes
You are wise beyond your years

Always there to...

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Resounding heartbeat of the winds,
Resounding sounds of screams,
I hear their need for peace,
But I guess that's only me,
The trees topple like nothing holds them in their place,
And I just cry,
Tears stream down my face.
Life is hard,
But life is good,
La Bella Vita,
I love you....

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Beautiful baby Bella
Grew into a  greatly gifted girl.
She sang songs solely for soldiers,
Homesick for hugs from their honeys.
But Bella fell fast for a friendly fella,
So now she sings solos solely for him.





 For Alliteration contest 9/7/11...

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Up every day at three, fighting for life.
As support for so many, I don't know
how much longer I can maintain this strife.
A few minutes there, a few minutes now,
I scribble a few lines at a stop light,
back to the daily grind, and edit here
on the...

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Rest eternally,
You’ve touched my soul with your heart,
My peaceful angel....

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You display your beauty like a rose, 
your essence frail and ghostly 
blossoms into fuller view, a wondrous pose. 
Maiden of mystery, home of stillborn 
assignations, misspent dreams and lovers' 
celebrations, fired with all the grief 
you can distill, and all the joy. 
You haunt...

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Overloading contradictions
Heads to heads, fated collisions
An exchange of blows never ending 
A grim nightmare in the making.

Casualties, bodies everywhere
a surreal view of morbid lust
In the eye, a killer crosshair 
aimed with precision, death's a must.

Reflections on what future holds 
with what hands are capable of
the...

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My name is Bella
And I love paella
That's not Italian I know
But everything with me can go
I just like things that sparkle
It can be a vampire or a patriarchal 
I go to high school 
I am not a dumb blonde or fool
I am totally insane about...

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1987-2017

She was my friend, she died too young,
In just a blink her life was gone.
Her heart quit beating, drew her last breath.
Her heart beats on with mine in death.

We never met, lived miles apart
Her memory still tugs at my heart.
She was my friend, she died...

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