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Best Compelling Poems

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Premium Member The Fallen Poet
(The Fallen Poet)

Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compelling, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Liquid Heaven
Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...

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Categories: compelling, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: compelling, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: compelling, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hereafter
Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me...

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Categories: compelling, allusion, life, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Twin Souls
I believe in twin souls, 
not soulmate a twin has a  
connection that can  
never be broken.... 
Lasting through all 
lifetimes 
They just fit and...

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Categories: compelling, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...

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Categories: compelling, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...

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Categories: compelling, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Caress of Words
When I read a poem that breathes, 
pulsing wildly, alive with its own heartbeat,
relentless, compelling in its desire,
I feel touched as if by another, feeling
some...

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Categories: compelling, analogy, appreciation, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musk of His Flame
Somewhere along waxed moonglow,
he is there
like a sweet aftertaste on my lips;
through warm fingers he groans
as silence closes my eyelids...
and even the pang that he...

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Categories: compelling, passion, relationship, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arms In Rhapsody
 Somewhere between our song, he is there
like a delicacy on my tongue;
on my fingertips he burns
the silence on my eyelids,
and even the pang that...

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Categories: compelling, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol Iii
Oakland County MI                   Democrats   ...

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Categories: compelling, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Ruin
Standing alone in a field of green
Near the cliffs edge by the sea
Nothing in view for miles around
Just ocean and greenery

A ruin so simply beautiful
That...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compelling, appreciation, beauty, history, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sing Me That Song
Sing me that song of compelling phrase,
Make me long to dance to your croon
With halting rhythms of a distant place.

I shall look longingly into your...

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Categories: compelling, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Footprints
On a frigid winter evening, so still
that hot breath lingered around my face.

In snow sparklingly dry and crystalline
I encountered fresh-made footprints,
leading off my mostly trodden...

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Categories: compelling, mystery, winter,
Form: Free verse

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