Best Dangles Poems
Crying River...Crying River (The Untold Ballad)
Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem -shallow basin
---Dream......
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Categories:
dangles, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
All In a Day...A black cloud dangles
Effortlessly forms
A haunting image
Showers travel east
Daisy hides her face.
A Robin sings
A melody
The sun appears
Once more she smiles.
Grass uncoils
Raindrops ......
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Categories:
dangles, nature, uplifting,
Form:
Diminished Hexaverse
Footprint...I did a show in this tiny town called Longyearbyen. We went snowmobiling around Svalbard and saw Arctic foxes, snow bunting, polar bear footprints and almost got lost in a blizzard.
Bill ......
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Categories:
dangles, adventure, animal, bird,
Form:
Free verse
The Poets Are Dead...On days I read…
O dread
The poets are dead!
A taste of bitter
A tatterdemalion squalor
A thread
that dangles
in black death
in the abyss
The art is lost
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Categories:
dangles, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Marionette Master...~Marionette Master~
All my dreams evolve around my wooden floor
Candles and clowns the show must go on
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The Moon slowly moves its way into my room
Dust pushes through my window mak......
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Categories:
dangles, abuse, fear, me, moon,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Conifer's Confession...Numberless now ...
Many, the years since then
When I uncurled my toes and reached thru soil
Pushed up and spread out
While beneath me the richness of the earth nourished
Spreading tendrils thr......
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Categories:
dangles, appreciation, love, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Husband's Death...
"There are some who bring a light so great to the
world that even after they have gone the light remains."
_Unknown
Annivers......
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Categories:
dangles, anniversary, death, husband,
Form:
ABC
A Casual Observation...It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic stance, when placing saintly, the newsprint covered bottle t......
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Categories:
dangles, angst,
Form:
Haibun
Moon Whispers...the full moon dangles low tonight
and whispers sweetly in my ear
memories of fiery delight
the full moon dangles low tonight
graceful herons glide in full flight
I’d trade them all to hold ......
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Categories:
dangles, absence, beauty, longing, love,
Form:
Triolet
Set us Free...
Verse:
Calamity, atrocity...
Lord, if you please,
we need a little help.
Monstrosity, ferocity...
Here on our knees,
we pray for your strong Hand
To ease this pain, bring on the rain;
w......
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Categories:
dangles, faith, freedom, humanity, life,
Form:
Lyric
Moon Fairy...A crescent moon, shining it's silver smile in the midnight sky
so beautiful, yet so desolate and alone in the vast galaxy.
But, tonight I can see that she has found some company.
An enchanting fairy ......
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Categories:
dangles, fairy, fantasy, moon, planet,
Form:
Free verse
Wallflower...On the edge she sits, a frail nonentity;
neither bloom nor spirit, nor secure identity,
as forlorn and shy she trembles, a man
asks her to dance, she must decline.
Stuck in a bubble, just missi......
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Categories:
dangles, solitude,
Form:
Quatrain
A House On the Cliff's Edge...There is a house on the cliff’s edge,
Around a quiet, unmarked shoreline
At night, the tide lifts high against a foggy moon
In the morning, gloomy clouds settle with the sea
At times, not even the bi......
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Categories:
dangles, allegory, art, beach, beautiful,
Form:
Ballad
Missing...A lipstick stained Camel butt, on the full ashtray rim
A golden earring on the floor, how does this story begin?
The Smith Corona silent, paper stuck in the machine
When someone ripped it out they......
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Categories:
dangles, angst, heartbreak, horror,
Form:
Verse
Colour Favourites...RED-
Pillar boxes that stand open-mouthed
Waiting to be fed.
And plump ripe strawberries,
Dipped in sugar,
Smothered in cream.
Or just popped in your mouth
And squashed between your teeth
Y......
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Categories:
dangles, children
Form:
Free verse