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Best Daunting Poems

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Premium Member A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto
I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunting, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Doors
There are so many doors
Which ones should I choose
Green, yellow, brown, purple
and many different blues

Some of them are rustic
Others modern and clean
Some lead to the...

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Categories: daunting, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, courage,
Form: Quatrain
Climbing Mt Hope
I reach the edge of the woods
and glimpse
the summit:
high, far –
and daunting.

I must not look up too much,
for I might lose courage.

I need patience,
to string...

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Categories: daunting, inspirational, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Call On Me
Call on me when your boat is sinking,
you’re blown off course, or you’ve run aground,
call on me when you’re lost in the wilderness,
call on me...

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Categories: daunting, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunting, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme



For Only Love
Only love transcends the infinite skies,
Through portals of passion that resonate…
Vibrations amongst wings of butterflies,
Reaching distant dormant eyes to dilate.

My love shall find your hibernating...

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Categories: daunting, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lovers' Feast:
Passions burn in the depth of night,
Lovers yearning to be entwined,
Against the wind these birds own flight,
A trail hidden it's hard to find.

Emotions soar high...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunting, love, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Tribute To Winged Warrior
Tribute to Winged Warrior

Oh what majestic beauty,
has been trampled,
trampled to death by a vicious enemy
Oh what misery is ours, 
we who are left behind
in ...

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Categories: daunting, bereavement, death of a
Form: Free verse
A Single Blade of Grass
I’ve read a lot about the stars—
sought precious knowledge of deep space. 
Wondered when we’ll go to Mars—
pondered if we’ll leave this place. 

Some problems...

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Categories: daunting, dedication,
Form: Quatrain
Forged In Burning Flames
You can do It

No Matter how Daunting the Feat

It might feel UNBEARABLE 

Death be Bitter Sweet


Keep in Mind if Flying

Your Landing be Secured

Gravity has No...

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Categories: daunting, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Word-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
BEGINNINGS

The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power...

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Categories: daunting, beautiful, bible, life, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Appear My Queen At the Pier
As the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free...

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Categories: daunting, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Withdrawing Room
Unrhymed tercets

The Withdrawing Room

Huddled together in this abstemious grey chamber
no windows or means of escape walls closing in
trapped where the un-sanctified transactions are made 


Daunting...

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Categories: daunting, abortion, bereavement, courage, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Artistry and Grandeur
You ask if I could drive us to the park
where no impediments of man distract.
Fierce gold and dusky pink as sky grows dark -
we witness...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daunting, beauty, creation, god, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member It Started With A Blank Canvas
Forces of the universe produce a wonderous array of spectacles afar. 
Monstrous planets rotating around just one lustrous inferno of a star. 

Myriads of illuminated...

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Categories: daunting, universe,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things