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Best Cliffside Poems

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Cliffside
Vast Cliffside, soaring
Cold sea mist dilutes my past
A bird’s life ... present...

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Categories: cliffside, nature, sea,
Form: Haiku



On the Rocks
what candle pressed against the wind
a winding trail unfolds 
down the cliffside 
into the storm
where a treasure lies to behold
a thousand jagged teeth
Peirce the roiling...

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© Chris Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliffside, angst, death, gothic, heartbreak,
Form: Ode
The Temptress of the Cliff
The heaven's lanterns she commands,
The harmony of ocean's harp.
Her moonlit shadow firmly stands,
And merges at the hem of scarp.

As I approach, afraid to speak,
Her illustration...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliffside, allegory, death, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Be Bram Stoker For a Day
High winds - stirring sea - surf pounds - Whitby beach

Storm clouds - residual - seagulls - frantic cry

Midnight - a figure - in view...

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Categories: cliffside, character, horror,
Form: Free verse
Moronic Murderers
I just love to watch Dateline
And Forty-Eight Hours Mystery…
I often scream at my television
‘How stupid can someone be?’

Their internet searches are careless
Looking up such truly...

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Categories: cliffside, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



I'M Sad Today-- Memories of a Princess--
I'm sad today

Because I let all the best in me, turn and walk away
I miss the way you'd laugh at the absurd things that I'd...

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Categories: cliffside, lost love, nostalgia, love,
Form: Rhyme
Migrations
The calls of the flocks          to this years migration
a roving community     ...

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Categories: cliffside, animals, education, life, nature,
Form: Verse
A Touching Ton of Tom's Torturously Terrrible Tid-Bits
"The Young and the Breathless"- TV soap opera about youg emphysema 
patients unfaithful to their doctors.

Candid- Something you could do, and did do.

Phone Call- Bidding...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliffside, fantasy, funny, imagination, on
Form: Burlesque
Days That Drag On and On
Days like these...the days that drag on and on
If only it was quiet everywhere
if only it were quiet inside my head
Too bad, so sad
this carefully...

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Categories: cliffside, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Lifeforce
The wisdom of God is his secrets
the glory of men to seek them out
but until he understands his childhood
he will cloud insight with his doubt
...

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Categories: cliffside, dedication, devotion, faith, hope,
Form: Verse
Rugged Road
As I walk down this rugged road,
That flows through the overgrown wood;
I am reminded of the life of a Christian.
This crumbling road with its faded...

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Categories: cliffside, christian, faith, gospel, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lifetime Get-A-Way, a Survivors Tale
*Image of Cherokee Piper, Four-seater single engine by Wilkie.

Lifetime Get-A-Way, A Survivors Tale

It is nineteen-eighty new years eve in less than two days,
that said--this turned...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliffside, adventure, beautiful, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Life Inspired By the Cliffs of Moher
Wildflowers sleeping late on dewy days
Rather than traveling on mountaintops
Two flowers embrace in harmony
Cognizant of nature's patrimony
Thankful for the few good years that remain
Their love...

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Categories: cliffside, appreciation, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Pastoral
The Hominid Dreamer
The dreamer
Lies buried in the hemisphere
Like hominids nested in calcium
Upon outstretched shovel
Vermillion corridors pounce in theatrical unfolding
Its all shadows and graves say
Those cliffside with buckets...

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Categories: cliffside, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Endangered Hearts
Raging black waters
Deadly upon us
Cliffside now crumbling
I’m helplessly tumbling

Forethought depression
Forgot aggression
I still remember
The chill of december

An ocean forever
Darkness the weather
Dead stars are burning
My heart once...

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© Ian Petch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cliffside, depression, forgiveness, introspection, love
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs