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Best Ceased Poems

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Premium Member The Stone
The tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might



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Categories: ceased, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Divine Song V
Idle my tongue remained, my Lord,

till the moment it learned how to pronounce Your name

But from

that moment onward, it never ceased singing your song

which has...

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Categories: ceased, god, love, world,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

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Categories: ceased, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ceased, easter,
Form: Free verse
No Sign of a Whine, a Smiling Mother
My heart I set on a dear companion
the cherished imprint on my soul, profound
how safe I felt in a tough kind bosom!
though I ceased to...

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Categories: ceased, best friend, blessing, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
If no longer could I inscribe, upon tapestries of rosy skies,
Dreams tinted violet, blossomed in themes amethystine,
And no longer could I weave-in the dreamscapes of...

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Categories: ceased, love, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Price of Paradise
We don't talk about it
Since hands upon the clock have ceased to move
When minutes creep, on skittish feet
The walls grow small~

By blue degrees, she drowns...

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Categories: ceased, death, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heart Spilling Blood
Written: February 5th, 2024
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My heart is leaking...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ceased, analogy, anger, bereavement, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ripping
You ripped me 
One word at a time
Shredded my smile
Pulled at my sensitivity
I was never strong enough 
To pull back my paper heart

You took the...

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Categories: ceased, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nevermore Will Raven Return
*Note:  A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three 
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...

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Categories: ceased, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form: Narrative
A Cinderella Story
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Categories: ceased, faith, life, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heaven and Hell
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Categories: ceased, depression, imagination, light,
Form: Rhyme
You Ruined the Rain For Me
I wish that I had superpowers.
So that I could read your mind. 
I'd violate your thoughts,
As you violate mine. 
Constantly, 
Incessantly; 
With unforgiving relentlessness. 

I...

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Categories: ceased, betrayal, break up, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sheep Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ceased, adventure, animal, christmas, december,
Form: Quatrain
Autumn, a Painting of An Artist
Confusing thoughts in Fall, me ceased to stalk
worries into the heart, floated and stepped aside
wonders from afar spreading their smiles in a flock
along with October...

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Categories: ceased, autumn, beauty, growth, happiness,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Shattered Sighs