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Best Dank Poems

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Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: dank, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Before the Rain Is Gone
She kept it all inside her
and never spoke a word,
though her thoughts flew and darted
like a trapped and frantic bird.

Inside her was a garden
that was...

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Categories: dank, fantasy, imagination, naturerain, blue,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life's Fading Light-Part 2-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Alone

For in the end it's just one soul that's passed.
Alone I'll lie in sod of greenest grass
to answer for the sins that I've amassed
at gates...

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Categories: dank, age, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Baxter Bug and the Purple Orb
Baxter was born in a meadow 
under a rotting plank
with hundreds of brothers and sisters
in a home both darkly and dank.

His momma was a June...

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© J. Summers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dank, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond the Stars
Dulcet scent of jasmine wafting through the air
 As moonbeams daub the swaying trees with silver hue
 Luna's glow prescribes romance, the twinkling stars
 make...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dank, moon, passion, romance, stars,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Mind's Cornfield
The Mind’s Cornfield

Dreaming deeply on this dark, dank, frigid-cold night,
My spirit-body walks freely in this place of solitude—
The Mind’s Cornfield, where fantasy and reality are...

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Categories: dank, allegory, death, emotions, faith,
Form: Terza Rima
Bunyip Forest Revisited
Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where...

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Categories: dank, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: dank, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart go
with its immense depths, sweet kisses, resplendent glow.
I could do no such, no more than...

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Categories: dank, heartbreak, hope, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night Street
The dank petrichor of grainy night,
meters stand like gravestones, 
the obsidian avenue slick as a sapphire,
windowed granite rising in sharp cut shadows,
wind gusting, tumbleweed clouds...

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Categories: dank, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze, - a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze, 
- a collaboration with Susan Ashley
 
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart...

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Categories: dank, beautiful, creation, heart, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between November and December
November comes down gliding on filmy wings, 
Bringing cool and dank days on her way
Sweet it is to watch the spectacular changes she brings
In a...

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Categories: dank, angst, autumn, beautiful, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Heartbroken
"Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right"
~ By Poet.

Scenes reel back casting dark shadows,
Of the fated day I had to...

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Categories: dank, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today the Darkness Comes
Today the darkness comes.
Music is subdued and low --
measured beats -- an ebb and flow
of oboes and of drums
to pace the sluggish feet.
I do not...

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Categories: dank, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
Punctuated In Time
Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe

Ambidextrous clock with appalling...

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Categories: dank, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs