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Best Cups Poems

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Premium Member Cups of Time
As Time unwinds with a cup of tea
Sipping fragrant steam of centuries
No rush to fluff the flattened sea

In the key of wind's piano notes
Strumming with...

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Categories: cups, mountains, nature, sea, sky,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cup of Empty
She pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams

Moonbeams...

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Categories: cups, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Belongings
Shadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...

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Categories: cups, loss, love, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: cups, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: cups, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Always From the Heart
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees clearly only with the heart. 
Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

"Le Petite Prince"
Antoine De...

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Categories: cups, art, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
I Belong To the Lake
 I wander far from the coal-tar smog
and buzzing sounds of the city
to a place where I can smell
fresh-cut hay in a tepid breeze.
I stroll...

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Categories: cups, beautiful, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: cups, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Last Good Days of Innocence
A rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is...

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Categories: cups, innocence, lost, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Teetotaler
In Ordinary Cups

The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in...

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Categories: cups, memory,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cups, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aurora Spills
"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the seaweed fields...

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Categories: cups, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: cups, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Knowing She Sees How Deeply She Is Missed
Knowing She Sees How Deeply She Is Missed
(Tribute To That Greatest Of Love, A Mother's)


Blue-cold morns rising to light a fire
mother, cooked on wood stove...

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Categories: cups, devotion, love, romance, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Announcing Our Annual Tea Party
 In honor of our new baby blooms, you are cordially invited to our annual tea.  This year we are serving a plethora of...

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Categories: cups, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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