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Best Covets Poems

Below are the all-time best Covets poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of covets poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member No Gold Nor Silver
No gold nor silver, weights my needy purse
Spun silk and finery I have no need
Such poverty of wealth be not God's curse
For bless'd the man...

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Categories: covets, love, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Clique

Clique ... clique
Peer pressure is a gun
Low self-esteem wanting popularity,
gather together in small clusters
Grapes of wrath ... attack anybody 
who try to break the bind
Verbal...

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Categories: covets, angst, friendship, social, word
Form: Rhyme
Invitation To the Dance
It is not the music,
for one knows it in the heat
that rises from a cool miasma,
sardonic, self-igniting--
the one that ravages and never warms,
consumes, and cannot...

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Categories: covets, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Torturous Twenty Four.
Forlorn in midnights vastness
Twinkling cousins as patient companions
She covets him
Her blushing glow pacifying the empty night
Descending toward dawn
Anxious Lingering

He will come for her…

Slowly the stars...

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Categories: covets, hope, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Epyllion
Premium Member Midnight Rose
The blackened fog that veils nocturnal lust
has draped the virtue of a virgin dawn
while carnivores, entombed beneath the dust,
unleash to prey upon a heedless fawn.
...

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Categories: covets, angel, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member In Bloom
She droops her head in drowsy snooze
awaiting for the rise of dawn.
She covets eastern sky pale hues,
as she stretches and stifles a yawn.

She cares that...

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Categories: covets, flower, good night, hello,
Form: Personification
Human Trafficking
She ran away,
Into the night,
Alone and sad.

They saw her,
Watched, then approached,
Offered her kindness.

She felt safe,
With innocent trust
She accepted friendship,
Went with them,
Believed in goodness.

They beat her.
Force...

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Categories: covets, abuse, child abuse, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto Vi
Continues the translation of the great Dante's poem written 700 years ago,
 probably the most important poetry ever written in the human story

When my mind...

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Categories: covets, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member A Green Silk Dress She Once Did Espy
A green silk dress she once did espy
Upon yesterday's crossroads high
Dreams and wishes one desired
Yet the next day expired.
So with silent eyes
She still covets
After all
These...

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Categories: covets, sad,
Form: Nonet
The Spaghetti Man
On Wednesday nights there is action in Midtown...
A unique opportunity to serve the Lord has been found.

About a minute past dark the homeless can be...

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Categories: covets, adventure, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Ballad
Fear Is Exposed
Run away
Run from fear
Fear of fighting
Fear of violence
Violence scares
Violence erupts
Erupts through families
Erupts in the home
Home was a haven
Home should hold love
Love is gone
Love neglected
Neglected by...

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Categories: covets, abuse, child abuse, innocence,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Fantasy- the Disney Land of Imaginations
She covets luxury so unprecedented
especially a lingerie made by a thousand hands
with sparkling diamonds out of bounds to human sight
and covers made out of a...

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Categories: covets, fantasy, life,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member World Cup
The fans are wild and crazy -
It’s the name of the game…
The game that’s most watched on the planet!
No, not American football -

Why it’s the...

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Categories: covets, fun, games, soccer, sports,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Virus Is Us
A fiesty Zen priest recently told me,
"Earth's most toxic virus is humanity".
Riding on this muddy blue ball so lush
could we only be a bit of...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: covets, age, earth, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Eyed People
Don’t blue eyed people have more fun?
When others walk, don’t they run?
Don’t they live life full until life is done?

Don’t tow-haired people have more zest?
Aren’t...

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© Jeff Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: covets, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs