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Best Cliff Poems

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Premium Member Unsure the Shore
Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...

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Categories: cliff, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Enraptured By Blue Sea
Enraptured by blue Sea, Sun chose a place 
above Sea, on a cliff. To touch her face, 
Sun then sank low; final radiance fell, 
a...

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Categories: cliff, sea, sun,
Form: Personification
I Write
Tiptoeing towards the edge of the towering cliff

I flap my wounded wings and fly

over tall two hundred year old oak trees

up to the top of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliff, dream, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: cliff, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
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: cliff, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Friend
when demons scream
fabricating falsehoods
i'll summon the angels
to help ease your mind

when you feel damaged
too broken to whisper
in dull blank darkness
i'll illuminate like stars

when dreams are...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliff, community, emotions, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between the Words of My Father
I tried my best 
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?

I wonder
Now that you...

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Categories: cliff, farewell, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strawberry
STRAWBERRY

Can you feel the warmness of the sun, 
reflecting off the red tones of my hair.
The sun touching the edge of my toes!
My seasons true...

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Categories: cliff, adventureme, me, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Some Distant Shore
Silent, she slips from her stronghold’s security,
safely tucked high on the cliff in her nest.
Cautious, she stays in the shadows afforded her,
sorrowful, hesitant, missing the...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliff, flying,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member To Find Within
*Inspired by photo*

From up above I see
Not what the clouds hide
But delicate blades of grass
Like my fragile emotions
Hanging over the cliff
Waiting to be acknowledged
With a...

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Categories: cliff, beauty, emotions, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Land of Sheep
There was a land, and on this land lived sheep.
Like all good sheep, they had their rules to keep.
They lived on farms in their own...

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Categories: cliff, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Last Wish
"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


I walk the shore alone beside your voice
How alive...

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Categories: cliff, death, lost love, memory,
Form: Tritina
Premium Member Narrow Margin
Sometimes, in uncertain outcomes, as life agitates,
It can sway either way, maneuvering on the edge,
For a difference rather modest, makes the final call,
When a narrow...

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Categories: cliff, life, perspective,
Form: Verse
Premium Member ''A Lost Feather''
 
A feather lost glides, drifting, it soars, 
In the mighty wind, it twirls and swirls, as if dancing;
Once, the People owned all the wilderness,
They...

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Categories: cliff, dream, native american,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In Search of 50 Names -Edited For Judge
In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names)

A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree.
Rose and jasmine fill...

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Categories: cliff, words, , cute,
Form: Couplet

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