Best Bind Poems

      a puppet dances

   to its own merry tune

    no strings attached

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[Inspired by Jan Allison’s...

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Where shall I find you, ribbon of joy
A sliver of something life cannot destroy
All through my fabric I’ll weave you and wind you
Ribbon of joy,...

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I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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When twilight's spectral fingers fold
Sweet blossoms of every hue;
Some half opened bud will hold
Its pearls of evening dew.

Touched with every sunshine hour
The eternal earth has...

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Mementos in a box, from years gone by
Thought to have been disposed of long ago
A glance, when something purple caught my eye
A ribbon from someone...

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Along the feathered edge, a red sun-sets
To bind the evening in dreams eyes explore
Two hearts will greet, till' paradise begets
Love leaves impressions as waves swirl...

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Cob swan and I have met here many times,
          As heaven's hem is melting pink and...

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Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the...

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There, among the Ruby Spires,
      Stood I, a-gazing toward the mist,
         Red...

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Trapped for so long in walls that cocooned her
She struggles to break free
All she desires is escape from the darkness of her prison
And the walls...

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In Such Intense Flames, An Eternity May Be Born

Hold your dreams, bind them with rainbow beams
tumble sweetly and let heart's passion arise
sow the seeds that...

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Lost in a maze of dreams
  where nothing is as it seems,

- but then again, it never really was -

My heart is held captive...

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He crafted word ...
all plucked delicately
like the petals pulled for a vinok
precious and pink and pulpy
wove them, giv'n a similar grace
not for vanity, mind you...

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I am broken
there is no one
to pick up the pieces
no one to melt the gold
to let it flow
and bind the pieces
to make me whole

KINTSUKUROI 

it...

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My poetry garden of late has lain untended and forlorn.
I succumbed to shock and dismay upon entering recently, for I observed that
great disagreement had erupted...

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A soul unites with a vessel. With no preconceived notion of what lies ahead.
A soul, upon arrival is molded by senses, by experiences, by emotions.
A...

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Oh so far I feel to find you
Oh so near I cannot bind you;
You so wise my plea goes heedless
You so dear my plea was...

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Light blue tears on parchment, how softly my pen 
weeps for you. Ribbons of verse bind, pull tightly 
on oozing emotions. Devoted words lie embalmed...

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I was challenged to write a poem with 10 syllables per line, without using the letter 'E.'

Squabbling with words; spats in opposition
can bring about discord...

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Love can hurt, and Love can heal
Love can pierce, and Love can seal
Love can cool, and Love can burn
Love can calm, and Love can churn

Love...

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Open like a door before me
Be it sun or rain or stormy
          Each new year gapes...

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  - - The way we were
           in poetic form, underlined and understood,
 ...

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Oh where could one sweet person go
          Who craves a phrase to ebb and flow
 ...

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Like open arms
These broken gates reach out to me
And lead me to the lonely house
That overlooks the sea

Her door once proud and stately
Now splintered hangs...

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