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Best Bristling Poems

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Before The Sun's Pieces
Before the sun's pieces,
Shine on brim's, coffee mug;
And with my prepping airs—
It's all jeopardy to 
Roll frost in bed somewhere.

Before the sun's pieces,
Rain in a...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bristling, deep, introspection, light, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza



Premium Member My Inner Child
I ride the vibrant crests
Of a tangerine moon
Glowing across stardust ridges
Where inspiration tickles
My heart with laughing dewdrops

I drift on the edge of a smiling
Emerald forest...

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Categories: bristling, child, childhood, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Last Acorn
I shiver beneath a frozen sky of milky gray and white  
and like a little rabbit whos barely grown into his coat 
I linger...

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Categories: bristling, analogy,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...

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Categories: bristling, art, life, muse, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before the Bud
The wind is crisp when clouds cover the 
sun, what passes for warm when clouds 
disappear.

Great oak trees, maple and elm, in full
bare-branched display, before...

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Categories: bristling, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mustangs
MUSTANGS

The ground shudders, and shakes,
 Under pounding hooves.
 Echoing against canyon walls.
Fast and furious wild hearts beat,
Keeping equal pace, with the prairies,
 Wide divide.
From within...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bristling, adventure, america, animal, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Jay
perched on a high tree
a blue jay lookout screeches ~
swift bristling of crests


[when blue jays feed in peace, their crests are lowered, but
become raised when...

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Categories: bristling, bird,
Form: Haiku
Fawning Meadow
Nature's, anesthetizing beauty held 
tightly in escrow
'Til on tendered form its heavenly 
charm can bestow

Fair maiden strides through 
manicured meadow
In her lovely essence, the enchanted...

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Categories: bristling, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Jaded Trail
Blithe fools traipsing through bleary hollow 
Airy sprites in hovering tents shadow
Brooding sylvan fringe shrouding light with her swaying willow
Jaded beams peep through the crenelated steeple's...

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Categories: bristling, nature, people
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Miserable Dim Ones and Zeroes
Nocturnal nerds now Priests of Power
Crank out the code grim and dour
Grimace and groan, grind it like stone
O, you miserable dim ones and zeroes

Bite your...

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Categories: bristling, addiction, computer, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Black Cat's Felony
A pair of eyes glowed in pitch darkness
Like two emeralds set on a black foil
My black cat paced across the doorway
Her tail, curled at her...

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Categories: bristling, 9th grade, cat, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Gotta Hate Somebody
Gotta hate somebody;
someone's always wrong.
Gotta hate somebody;
we just can't get along.

If it ain't for the color,
it'll be for the creed.
We judge the deed by the...

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Categories: bristling, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Light Kissed
"Light Kissed"


Light kissed her through the veil
Come tempest on the beach of morning sun
With Gold on your naked feet
Life has again for you begun 
Like...

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Categories: bristling, adventure, dream, imagery, journey,
Form: Romanticism
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.

The...

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Categories: bristling, animal, creation, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Romany Gypsy
With flashing eyes she did enthral
as to the beat of drums she danced
a wild flamingo with clacking castanets
her wide hooped skirt was all a-swirl

Golden earrings...

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Categories: bristling, beauty, dance, fire, hair,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things