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Best Dealt Poems

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Crimson Moon
O beguiling crimson Moon
Fiercely blazing for want of thee;
Descending beneath faltering clouds;
Leering wantonly;
And She:
Her coy distractions and brazen
Enchantments 
Laid bare and stripped rude...
Like the naked...

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Categories: dealt, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dealt, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Return
A charlatan returns despite his earlier defeat.
After two years gone, he claims he owns a seat
But there is no throne for the jester who bears
His...

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Categories: dealt, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Moment In Time
In that moment his eyes swirled 
with all of the love he held for me;
with every ounce of life that he 
would happily lay down...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dealt, appreciation, devotion, friendship, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Debacle
* Bringing this gem back in the hope Becca Teagan sees it and returns. We wrote this together, a labor of love. The poem ends...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dealt, confusion, evil, history,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Things That Seemed Poetic
Things that seemed poetic were always sad,
though I yearned for sparkle
and my dad's guffaw, which never came.
Familiar things were always drear --
repeated motions in the...

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Categories: dealt, angst, childhood, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Gone But Not Forgotten
Trills tumble through an air long silenced
warbled melodies enlighten the palate 
whistles delight but fly off to the thistle
freighted by the frigid speak  
amongst...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dealt, beauty,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Summer's Heat
That summer came like others, 'midst a rush
Hot days and sultry nights beneath the moon
And from my lifeguard stand I chose a crush
That made that...

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Categories: dealt, appreciation, beach, beauty, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unwatered
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'
Were I to be more truthful, and less kind
Once fair, your hair now more consumed by gray
Your dewy...

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Categories: dealt, depression, lost love, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
The Perfect Friend
The Perfect Friend ©

Today I found a friend 
Who knew everything I felt
She knew my weakness
And the problems I’ve been dealt.
She understood my wonders
And listened...

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Categories: dealt, best friend, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: dealt, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Special Needs Hero
Young and pretty, living a normal life
Suddenly her world would never be the same
Her lovely boy born with special needs
Her daily life now the toughest...

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Categories: dealt, caregiving, child, inspirational,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: dealt, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose
Premium Member I Touched the Wall Today (The Vietnam Memorial Wall)
Emotions flooded my very soul as I viewed that Sacred Wall.
Etched for all eternity are hero's names who sacrificed their all.
I sensed that I was...

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Categories: dealt, hopeprayer, may, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Overlap
The overlapping of me and us three
Of who I was and who I turned out to be
I never ever felt I was good enough 
Or...

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Categories: dealt, abuse, angst, appreciation, care,
Form: Narrative

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