Best Carved Poems

carved on a willow
our love growing out of reach...

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There was a lady that I once knew
She met her love she felt was true
He carved their initials into a tree
As she leaned closely on his knee

Trouble in paradise soon they learned
When her initials he wanted to burn
Her middle name he did not know
Until on...

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The sun is out
  The sky is blue
Hearts carved on a tree
  Spell Me and You

We stroll by the water
  Forget our cares
Summer's here now
  To enjoy the fresh air

Smell the red peonies
  Gorgeous pods on a stem
Pick a few,...

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Chilly the pride shredding me torn.
In soft grass I lay odd pieces
of my new wound, bloody from scorn
and wrath as pushed in my creases. 

I sent harmony into flight
to secure love’s peaceful, prime feel,
but rage launched and eclipsed my light.
My heartache carved deep its reveal....

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The
Letter
Carved in wood
Remains as a 
Visible sign of
A painful rejection 
Witnessed by an azure sky 
Heard in the air as a whisper
Softened by the bloom of Spring flowers







For Contest E Form Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings
1-21-2017
Second Place...

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I'm a man of many faces
I've carved out over time
I carry them around with me
In a leather bag strapped to my side

Usually I'll leave it up to others
How it is they set the mood
The way we interact
To what face it is I choose

I have a...

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Here lies Bea At a hundred and three
In the place she vowed She’d never be
She always swore She’d never die
Till all who bugged her
In the grave would lie
She hung on tight To the very end
No foe was left For flowers to send
Let’s raise a glass...

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I've witnessed the seeds of faith sprout
in a hurting heart filled with doubt.
And yet, some stop worshiping God;
amidst times of famine or drought.

Following the paths, clergy trod,
I found their teachings to be flawed.
For preaching hell and damnation;
marks God's eternal love as fraud.

In a world filled...

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Mount Rushmore: Carved in Stone

From deep within the Earth’s crust,
An orogeny pushes
The batholith upwards
To become “The Shrine of Democracy,”
Of weathered presidential faces
Chiseled in rock in South Dakota,
Representing 150 years of history
(From the birth of a nation
To its entry into the 20th century)
In carved images
Of Washington,...

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Cold bleak winter rain has fallen
On your velvet hair and skin;
Once a masterpiece in color,
Now washed clean and white again.

Visions paint a flower of beauty 
From your love grown through the years;
Now within my storm of silence, 
Petals shake from all my tears.

Through the pain...

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At the footbridge she always read his name
along with hers that they had carved together
on the wooden side plank.
They also had carved two hearts intertwined,
though their love met an early end she still
meets him in her dreams.
When she passes the bridge it brings back
those golden...

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A soldier is standing across another.Between them a lake with soal waters.A gun is standing 
across another.Different hands are carrying them as different are the eyes looking at each 
other.As barrels are pointing, as terror commands they stay still like statues without souls.
''Drop it''! Yells...

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betwixt the soul of night 
still young but bright
death carved out 
her path for me
through The River Styx...

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Those lovely little precious moments
Moments we shared and treasured like two lovely doves
Doves that had fallen freshly in love
Love which had been nurtured over a long period of time
 
Time which had been kept assiduously by our bountiful parents
Parents who had been looking forward to...

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In The Faces of Love



In the faces of love, 
I have seen so little of life.
 
In the faces of love, 
I have searched for expression, 
and have yet to come away with an answer.
 
And it seems I have been, 
turned away at last.
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