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Best Broiling Poems


Memoriam For Donald B Buchanan
...Who will weep for my noble prince? Who will cry
With belly swollen with sorrow, and tears long
As the Black River? Who will hear the clouds sigh
And turn black over red clay, and being strong
Not......

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Categories: broiling, death, faith, friendshipdeath, death,
Form: Elegy
Snapshots of a Nightmare
...Click

In the dimming light of her bedroom,
a child sits facing the wall in her bad chair.
She has to go potty, but she doesn’t dare.
So she stares at the wall in the gathering gloom.

Click
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Categories: broiling, childhood, night, light, child,
Form: Free verse
Young Dr Frankenstein
...Higgledy-Piggledy,
Young Dr. Frankenstein.
thought he was able to
cook up a man.
baking and broiling and
incomprehensible
things to invent such a
Frankenstein plan.......

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Categories: broiling, crazy,
Form: Double Dactyl

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Dream With Dragon
...I had a Dream with Dragon in it, yes, just this morning, yes, today!
And the Dreams that linger, that I recall, are usually bad, I’m wont to say… 
Haven't seen 'Day of The Trifids' in years. What I w......

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Categories: broiling, adventure, dream, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Spirit of the Night Soil Man 1
...Spirit of the night
  Spirit of the night soil man
  Spirit of the night soil man is awake
  Spirit of the night soil man is abroad,
  Here, the emerging mystery, more a sinister from a
 dungeon......

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Categories: broiling, timenight, night,
Form: Free verse
Love Journey
...37 PM

I wonder who will walk with me thru the "Storm"
To keep my hands "Warm"
With a Crown of "Thorns"
Shirt Worn "Torn"
Body "Scorned"
Walking on "Horns
Flames of fire on the ground "Formed"
That's a fire storm "Fire "Born"
Since I met her my Fire "Broiling"
While her Soul "Ferment" Hawking with me through Fire "Torrents"
Our Souls on Fire while the Love "Storming"  to "Endurance" Her Heart "Enormous" She smiles at the Devils "Torments" She G......

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Categories: broiling, art, love hurts, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Divine Revival Fire
...Divine fire 
makes spiritual endeavors ablaze
kindled by  love's impact 
against coldness of apathy
turning brewing friendships
to fellowship-blends so sweet.

Revival flame 
exposes ......

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Categories: broiling, blessing, character, encouraging, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ..Humanity Beached
...humanity beached 
pink flesh broiling in the sun...
fish and chips with oil
  
*seasoned with summer......

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Categories: broiling,
Form: Senryu
Skylarks and I
...Enchanted by skylarks I surrender my time.
Day's sun unabated riveted me to broiling heat,
I stew in my skin. Every toxic thought
Pollutes my surface as is intended,
But corrodes and cankers their pa......

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Categories: broiling, social, longing, cry, sun,
Form: Free verse
Stage Fright
...Silence...


...Just wait...


Wait a couple seconds...no, really.

Just WAIT...


In the distance, 
a tremble of the air itself.
A subtle quiver of it's molecular structure.
A charge, causing your h......

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Categories: broiling, fear, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
Summer Cooking --- Well Done
...Summer cooking on the beach,
Slap the sunblock where I can’t reach,
Baking in this broiling sun,
Ever since the day begun.

I’m roasting alive can’t you tell?
Touch my skin and I’ll scream like......

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Categories: broiling, beach, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Night of Passion
...each gleaming candle with it's yellow glow, surrounds her beauty like an aura. Her 
eyes are like a cats..sparkling with curiousity and wonder as she swirls in her dress 
skirts around her chamber.......

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Categories: broiling, art, imagination, passion, romance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Peasants Truck
...Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from t......

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Categories: broiling, angel, blessing, business, character,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mirage
...Baking, broiling, blindingly bright, blistering sun,

Super scorching, sweltering, sizzling sand

The kabob that is my body skewered, searing

Deceptively blue skies devoid of any deliverance
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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: broiling, death, life, sky, sun,
Form: Imagism
Two Old Gods
...TWO OLD GODS

Two old men.
That’s all; not much to look at.
Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning
Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches
Overhead, and cri......

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Categories: broiling, death, old, old, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry