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Best Courtyards Poems

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I Dreamed a Dream of You
Yesterday I dreamed a dream,
that had no end.
You in your white gown, and long, black hair flowing.
You were calling my name.
I heard you, but I...

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Categories: courtyards, august, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member The Immortal Journey
Oh! What a journey
We have walked through fields of gold
And stood beneath starry nights

Moon dust in our eyes
specks still  glowing on our tongues
And in...

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Categories: courtyards, art,
Form: Personification
Thoughts of Two Dimensions
Thoughts of Two Dimensions

Yesterday, I loved your courtyards
bathed in moonlight's shadows and smiles,
smitten by wavering stars,
lanterns of my youth,
that are reflected as coins,
in the quiet...

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Categories: courtyards, sea, seasonslove,
Form: Free verse
Sword of Roses
What, then, is Love but a sword of roses
Which cleaves poor waiting hearts
And thusly drunk with the blood of saints
Exults in its own dissipation?

And mine,...

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Categories: courtyards, depression, devotion, friendship, lost
Form: Blank verse
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the...

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Categories: courtyards, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse



Goodnight My Fair Maiden
Goodnight my Fair Maiden,
I shall see you once again.
In the year of our Lord,
At the gloomy dawn of Mankind.
As the Red Sun reaches over the...

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Categories: courtyards, beauty, city, dance, dark,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Rebuilding Megiddo
Wearing her zippered jumpsuit of lime
My queen loves to survey the valley's field.
She dreams of finding a perfect place and time 
She can make her...

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Categories: courtyards, history, inspirational, placescity,
Form: Rhyme
Mehndi Poem
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Marriage adds celebration to life.
Music adds life to celebrations.
Mehndi Adorns the...

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Categories: courtyards, family, humanity, husband, peace,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Beauty Beyond Words
Bringing out waves of electrifying glamour
fully captured by antennas of nature
giving matter a new meaning, science a new puzzle
and all phenomena, something to ponder
makes even...

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Categories: courtyards, beautiful, beauty, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Creole Townhouse
I visited New Orleans years before hurricane Katrina where hundreds were killed and
eighty percent of the city was flooded.  I saw the Mardi Gras...

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Categories: courtyards, city,
Form: Haibun
Incineration of Love God Madan Cupid 01 of Many
Incineration of Love God Madan ( Cupid )
One of Many
Originally written in Hindi by my late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor
1899 to 1994

English version by...

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Categories: courtyards, god, god, love,
Form: Epic
Onam Carnival of Kerala-2
“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”


“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard...

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Categories: courtyards, day, faith, sea, social,
Form: Shadorma
Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here
Abandon Hope All Ye
 Who Enter Here



Ever the edifice
The bold and self-serving statue
Proud ego stamped
In the courtyards and squares
Of those who have diminished ( ordinary...

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Categories: courtyards, history, life, recovery from...religious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avalon
Far beyond mans intrusions, 
A vast hidden world lives on.
An ancient fortress lost amidst,
Historical reference, a faded shade,
Amongst remembrances memory.
Imagination limitless vision, 
Separating conscious truth,...

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Categories: courtyards, adventure, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
My History - Mi Historia
A torment of pain transcended the eons of my ethnicity, engraving on the white pyramids of Chichen-Itza my life. Walking the pebbled courtyards and confronting...

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Categories: courtyards, confusion, history, sorrow,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things