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Best Cheekbones Poems

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Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: cheekbones, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Depth of Passion's Kiss
I woke trembling on the threshold of dawn 
as dappled sunlight through my window shone 
Upon my primed canvas there had been drawn 
a masculine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheekbones, desire, kiss,
Form: Romanticism
Raspberry Wine
Musty antiquity 
within.
Spice inside
a cauldron 
of ripe reason. 
Five months 
unshelved 
brewing boiling 
now the suave coolness,
animals don’t know
how to simmer their lovebroth
like this.

Only the...

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Categories: cheekbones, happiness, love, passion
Form: Narrative
A Goodbye Lie
Dark chocolate eyes bore into me,
Beseeching, brimming, tunneling for truth.
A single tear trails silently
Cascading o’er lifted cheekbones so
Perfectly angled they’re matchless
Throughout nature’s beauty scheme.
Exquisite, ethereal...

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Categories: cheekbones, abuse, betrayal, character, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Ignited By Deception
The yellow neon sign casted a glow upon his chiselled cheekbones as the bustling sounds of a city that never slept droned on. 

He carried...

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Categories: cheekbones, dark, death, imagery, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Common Man
The traveler reeked of weariness,
His companion was Fatigue
Wear upon his clothes suggest
He'd come a million league.

Gaunt were eyes deep set and brown
Above his cheekbones high
His...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheekbones, america, conflict, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Card Tricks
It was a party like most, I guess
And not a “fun” one, I must confess
But our hostess I adored
And I just couldn’t say: “I’m bored”,

So,...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheekbones, conflict, dark, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Letter Sent To Heaven
That first moment I looked up from my desk
   To see you entering the office door
How my heart stood still; it was in...

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Categories: cheekbones, love
Form: Sonnet
Ugly Is Beautiful
The hideous wrinkles and folds 
unmistakingly reveal the damage
that the harsh years had wrought,
all the battles waged and fought, 
won and lost.

I look at her...

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Categories: cheekbones, life, timebeauty, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystical Lore of the Thunderbeast
Great Spirit whispers on breathing breeze; 'It is time',
puce plume in saffron noon signals hunt's aborning,
ThunderBeasts' harrowing hooves erupt Great Plains grime,
soon will ail, widow's...

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Categories: cheekbones, death, native american, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Sleeping Machines
The harbor gave a dim illumination,
lampposts vaguely penetrating the dark water.
As waves like shades of wine drowned the jagged shore of stone,
I watched a fibrous...

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© Kyle Costa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cheekbones, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yemen Slaughter August 9, 2018
If one is hungry
And bored
Of watching over Mecca,

What better place
To steal an apple
Than from another country’s orchards,
With fighter jets
Twanged in the sky
Like flying bottle openers,
Diving...

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Categories: cheekbones, evil, grief, international, political,
Form: Free verse
Thin Skinned
a small child
crouches
quiet
eyes taken
curious sight
brow creases
in question
 
it a new thing
these pink shapes
on earthy brown
face
fingers
backs of hands
throat
breasts
half covered
the same
familiar
patterned dress

she child
soft traces
them
on toes
tops of feet
calves
where...

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Categories: cheekbones, child, community, humanity,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Bathing Beauty
Breathe laden islands rise and fall
beneath the steam graced surface of clear water,
capped with rosettes, red-brown, silken, warm,
beaded with water running in rivers
down mountainsides of...

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Categories: cheekbones, life, water, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Walks
Amidst the broken windows  
   The blowing trash on the sidewalks
She walks, cheekbones prominent
   Head held high

Past drunks, huddled against...

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Categories: cheekbones, dedication, faith, future, poverty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things