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Best Carnation Poems

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Premium Member Carnation
With a slight glow of early morning sunlight

a single flower-bud unfolds bright

from its green protective wrap 

to serrated knap

revealing

soft pink 

appealing 

velvet petals of

a carnation,...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carnation, flower,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Letter from the Grave
Is the ship
still in its bottle..

Have your lips 
become dry,
tired from yearning.
Do you still wear 
my sage shirt.

Are you still crying,
are all those tears for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carnation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timeless adoration
“A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carnation, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That was Then, This is Now

I once saw a man with kaleidoscopic eyes,
reflecting in hues of periwinkle and persimmon.
His heart illuminated in shades of scarlet, 
marigold and clementine,
releasing rainbow ink...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carnation, analogy, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member April Fawn
Longing in lowly light of longer days
by which a summer wilts paternal dreams
and browns the loitered heaves of yellow spring:

the budding void that stamps an...

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Categories: carnation, depression, father daughter,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Flowers In My World
Red soft velvet, forever in my mind,
purple and blue, every color of the rainbow.
White to near black emotional displays,
their meanings hidden in the multitude of...

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Categories: carnation, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Soft Swan Wings -
You are a jeweled gift sparkling diamond rock temple 
One of thousand in the world touched petal by petal 

Skies above true blue wrapped cotton...

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Categories: carnation, angel, beautiful, blessing, emotions,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Keepsakes
His jazz collection fills the spare bedroom
Music man, you see, was his nom de plume

Our wedding album rests on the nightstand
A keepsake for my viewing...

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Categories: carnation, husband, lovewedding, wedding,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dans Le Heure Bleue
“dans le heure bleue"



My skin feels alive
when you are 
next to me
blood pulsing
from the core
of me
Root Chakra Red
My throat exposed
the Wolf now
lies next to me
in...

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Categories: carnation, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Beautiful Flowers
I love pink rose flowers                                          ...

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Categories: carnation, beauty, daffodils, purple, red,
Form: List
Premium Member - Soft Swan Wings -
You are a jeweled gift sparkling diamond rock temple 
One of thousand in the world touched petal by petal 

Skies above true blue wrapped cotton...

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Categories: carnation, beauty, feelings, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Unveiling
The Unveiling


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Categories: carnation, destiny, life,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member The Old Jam Jar
Wandering the virtual
green fields of home,
I open the farmyard gate
fall into a haze of retrospect.
I see a “LMS Black Five” Locomotive
bellowing upon a utilized line,
ghostly...

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Categories: carnation, old,
Form: Free verse
7:30 A.M.
In the morning,
the sweet aroma
of Carnation
wafts 
from the earth 
of wine fed sleep. The unrelenting chimes 

of a lone tweeter
that you can’t fail 
to notice...

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Categories: carnation, life
Form: Free verse
Colourfication
COLOURIFICATION
Sponsor: Silent One


Her sapphires seduced him beneath shadowed sheets. 
He craves her slender body beneath the crimson setting of the sun
in the far west and...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: carnation, love, lust, marriage,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things