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Best Condense Poems

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The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: condense, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Burning Embers
The dawn of love, so magical and new,
Two bodies set aflame with burning kiss.
Enchanted world and only for the two. 
No other pair has ever...

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Categories: condense, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Red Angel
RED  ANGEL

I see the fire in your eyes!
This Red Angel, who's not human, intriguing with lies.
Pointing to the path that leads to paradise.
Ending Revelations...

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Categories: condense, angel, beauty, care, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Ulan At Sinag Ng Araw: Pagmumuni Ng Isang Tulirong Isip
my head touches the pillow
as gentle rain lulls me 
and i just want to   s
        ...

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Categories: condense, angst, feelings, introspection, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Everyday Is a Cliffhanger
Each book in my library must be read, each one, each and every one,
vagrant, homeless papers must find a forever home, I must
edit, amend, revise,...

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Categories: condense, anxiety,
Form: Acrostic



Butterfly Rust
~With a red cloisonne butterfly welded
to the end of the metal, the wire, I wrapped you
and cut off the circulation in my pinky finger.
I laughed...

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Categories: condense, life, people, time, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Noise In Her Mind
Noise in her Mind

I know her so well she came long ago to visit my being
         ...

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Categories: condense, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The State of the Onion
The puppet pranced
The strings frayed
A jackass brayed
As poppin’ hoppys
Sat and rose
In ballet dance
Of well browned nose
Applause and “clapture”
of Stockholm rapture
A mocking strut
Of failing stature

Overseers jaundiced...

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Categories: condense, angst, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Question
It’s easiest to hide behind
The written word
Typed data
Ashes strewn across the pages

Through the rhythm of the keyboard
The scratch of pencil on the sheet
Thoughts come out...

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© Derek Chos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: condense, people
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Privilege
Imagine that there is something beyond imagination

an oxymoron of course but a real task nevertheless

There may be no God not even spirituality suffices

but the whole...

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Categories: condense, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Succinct
It’s hard to write succinctly.
It’s murder to condense;
So lengthy poems quite often seem
To be the consequence.

It really takes a special skill
To trim or cut in...

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Categories: condense, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
The Arms of a Stranger
The odor of warmth and affection,
The feeling of love and protection,
An isolated heaven of love;
I lay in his arms like an angel,
Like a white dove,

At...

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Categories: condense, angst, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Window To My Verse
I pen a beauty for a poetry contest, 
I use the best form that suits my verse, 
to convey my simple ideas the best;
The brilliance...

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Categories: condense, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dreamy Haze
Grasping my soul into its mystery,
Leaving me motionless, breathless,
Wanting to breathe more of its
Aroma, its sensation, its 
Mystified, encrypted feelings…

It’s my devotion, 
It’s my colorful...

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Categories: condense, art, devotion, on writing
Form: Free verse
Haikus About God: Iii
Beauty of nature
Why condense it down to God?
Isn’t life enough?...

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© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: condense, allah, angel, angst, confusion,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs