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Best Chains Poems

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Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: chains, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: chains, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: chains, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: chains, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: chains, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Monster
MONSTER

Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed, 
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...

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Categories: chains, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: chains, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: chains, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chains, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: chains, sad,
Form: Rhyme
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: chains, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Road Crash of Words
Upon the doorstep of my paradise,
     You’ll find h e l l i s h pansies and t a i n...

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Categories: chains, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Woman They Know
 Her smiles of valor encase her agony--
   her fiery scars pound against her sanity
    struggling in twisted ropes of...

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Categories: chains, analogy, courage, hope, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poem For Whomever
she is tranquillity
yet lava flows in her veins

cut her open and you'll burn

she is Eve's apple
nemesis to patriarchy

one bite and you'll bleed

she is a rainbow
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chains, friendship, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last drop of ink
Love is a silent emotion,
invisible to open eyes.
But, I saw the naked soul
of her enigma - 
        ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chains, romance,
Form: Ode

Book: Shattered Sighs