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Best Creaking Poems

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The View From a Window
A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...

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Categories: creaking, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creaking, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Never To Be Mine
Not with my arms but with a heart 
that blesses your reveries, may peace reside
within your chest... is it possible to love you
less? Perhaps allow...

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Categories: creaking, grief, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
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: creaking, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: creaking, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hope, a Little Remained
Hope, A Little Remained

She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...

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Categories: creaking, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sweet Ghost Valentine
An old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.

A storehouse for so many...

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Categories: creaking, lost love, love, me,
Form: Couplet
Insanity Music
Last year, her imagination went double
So she ignored her previous schedule.
She put all her dreams inside of clear jars,
Decorated with different, assorted stars.

She believed if...

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Categories: creaking, change, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Susurrus
Heart yearns for a remedy to help it unwind,
as thoughts drift to forgotten forests of the mind.
Distant visions with hues of a sepia tone,
soul senses...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creaking, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member When the Sun Drowns In the Sea
I walked home alone in the dampening mist
as the pastel colored sky blanketed the sun
His rays sank into the sea for their daily tryst
Resting among...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: creaking, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Amid the Jagged Shadows
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                ...

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Categories: creaking, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house, 
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready...

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Categories: creaking, christmas,
Form: Narrative
All On a Summers Eve
The screen door droops lazily, slightly ajar
Crickets croon lullabies, heard from afar
Kid’s sticky faces, betray ice-cream bars
All on a summers eve

Legs peel off chairs, from...

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Categories: creaking, nature, sea, seasons, uplifting
Form: Rhyme
A New Day, a New World, a New Tomorrow
A new day, a new world, a new tomorrow

Shades of painted corners
face these inward fears
Now drenched in today’s worries,
as flat as the cornerstone of suffering
caught...

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Categories: creaking, lost, love, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Rusty Gate
Withered memories invigorate, rekindling rhythm of heart,
Grabbing hold of me to retrieve elation of forgotten past
Throbbing in enchantment, treasured memoirs now impart,
Where decaying house stands,...

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Categories: creaking, home, memory,
Form: Rhyme

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