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Best Blemishes Poems


Premium Member Stillness in November
...Over harvested fields —

I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern   a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into m......

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Categories: blemishes, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral
Sweet Dixie
...A land unto its own as old as dirt
Condemned by voguish northern state of mind
This realm you'd be hard-pressed to disconcert
Though his'try would prefer it be maligned

The secret twisted oak a......

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Categories: blemishes, beautiful, deep, food, happiness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Imperfections
...i accept you
for all your imperfections
in my eyes you are perfection

the seen and unseen

if only you had my eyes
placed them in those
big brown pupils

then you would see
what i see
fo......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blemishes, identity, image,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member superficial solace
...
  O river of moon roses
                ferry me home....
I weep in quivering quiescence 
      like a weathered wild petal~ 
  healing and hurting
            in my p o e t i c reclu......

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Categories: blemishes, angst,
Form: Free verse
This Is Me
...You wake up in the morning to look in the mirror,
To say "This is me".
To Compare yourself to what you think you should be.
"I'm fat.",
"I'm ugly.",
"How can this be?",
"Why did God do this to ......

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Categories: blemishes, beauty, change, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Crimson and Ivory
...tears 
on her pillow
refuse to dry
only her piano
                    knows her pain

sitting 
in her gown
her fatigued fingers
break her silence
                        as they weep
until......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blemishes, deep, lost love, love
Form: Free verse



Premium Member God's Kind of Poetry
...O ever changing sky, blue-gray and maudlin
your mood and unsettled ways, meld with mine.
Clouds seem but blemishes upon horizons
as weary as the soot smudged cheeks of urchins.
Bruised in hues at......

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Categories: blemishes, inspirational, life, nature,
Form: Pastoral
Perfect
...Why stay in Oz, girl
Wishing for changes?
Turning your mirrors to books
So you can rewrite the pages

You’ve got a beautiful heart and mind, girl
Why look at the flaws?
I can’t even see the ti......

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Categories: blemishes, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Heart
....... 
                  broken heart 
           that I am, has beset 
    by blemishes though I'm not  
 ashamed; for my shattered 
pieces myself is to blame. 
here I breath waiting for the
 ......

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Categories: blemishes, hope, lost love, love
Form: Concrete
Beauty In Imperfection - a Collaboration With Iris Blade
...Beauty in Imperfection - A collaboration with Iris Blade

I got too close to the masterpiece
And realized it was cracked
Blemishes and scars 
Memories and sorrow

I stared as the brushstrokes ......

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Categories: blemishes, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Acts of Karma
...The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him a brand-new fif......

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Categories: blemishes, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Old Ironsides
...Only silence dresses her rigging now
To the call of the bosun’s whistle
Her hatches now stand locked and secure
Where long past sailors once lingered
She is the last of the old frigates
Moored i......

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Categories: blemishes, history, inspirational, loss, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pinctada Pearl
...

Stolen from Persian shores,
whilst warm within my cocoon,
all that remains is saltwater memories,
where sorrows flow in slow motion
through drops - invisible, but glowing.

Eyes gaze in awe......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: blemishes, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Petals of Pain
...
Once upon a time, 
when juliet was a jewel 
of psychedelic phrases ~ 
steering rubies of romance 
to distant shores, 
where sapphire seafoam 
had never kissed the silence of sands ~ 
the......

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Categories: blemishes, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Imperfection
...Blemishes I see upon my body
Destroying my own temple
Could it be that simple

Damned to dream
and not sleep
As so it seem
and soon I will reap

From my own hands the cuts
Showing the pain ......

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Categories: blemishes, deep, dream, how i
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry