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Best Decadent Poems

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Premium Member Decadent Proposal
She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of...

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Categories: decadent, dark, desire, love, lust,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Winter's Afterglow
stars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.

she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decadent, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Food Inglorious Food
Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Categories: decadent, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In a Perfect World
A Perfect World Begins With You

In a perfect world
I would get to spend every moment with you
In a perfect world
I would languish in a decadent...

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Categories: decadent, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
As I Plot Just One More Day
I am immeasurably honoured to have been invited to collaborate with as fine a poet as Robert Lindley. Our first collaborative process has been very...

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Categories: decadent, death, desire,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As I Plot Just One More Day
As I Plot Just One More Day

Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long 
and...

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Categories: decadent, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speak My Language
Speak my language
A language of love I can understand
My heart language
Understand my need
My desire to be understood
Speak my language

Speak fluently to my heart
Words of Affirmation
I...

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Categories: decadent, language, love,
Form: Free verse
The Adventures of Jim the Trim - In An Islet
Jim, now rich, bought a wee li’l islet;
there he lived, with ten men and a starlet.
Changed his partner each day,
heaved and huffed till they say,
the...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decadent, adventure, allusion, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Chocolate On Your Lips
Pure
luscious 
decadent 
self indulging
with the molten chocolate on your lips,
felt the finery of her burning fire,
as you placed your,
warmth on her 
fine skin
as 
a
moment
of rising
which...

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Categories: decadent, chocolate, deep,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member The Elephant In the Room
3 polished oak fans,
Swirling in robotic unison

High maintenance socialites,
Sipping on Merlot fallacies

Lemon yellow coated walls,
Flat,
Like their smiles

Comparisons of dangling Porsche & Bentley keys
A glorified day...

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Categories: decadent, funny, humorous, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Tiramisu
Decadent ladyfinger
Infused with coffee
Layered, rich, cheese filled delight
I long for your taste
My Italian love
And your rum
Yum!...

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Categories: decadent, food
Form: Epulaeryu
Premium Member Trophy Wife
I watch your riveting sonatas
Layer decadent truffles
Upon his pupils

Leaking wanton tears

Grasping for serenity
To have epilogue’s slow dance

You latch onto love’s empty façade.

No return flights to...

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Categories: decadent, life, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Frozen Moment
In the season of the sacred gift
White powder falls and spirits lift
When better to join two souls adrift
A moment frozen in time

His heart is firmly...

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© Joe Inka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: decadent, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
The Prisoner
** A protest against the hypocrisy of the death penalty and the decadent environment of the prison system where a simple thief or criminal is...

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Categories: decadent, prison,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member desert blossom - Dubai -
 * For His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum *

oh, how I have dreamed of you -
sultry mistress to the sun's ire …
dappled...

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Categories: decadent, art, earth, metaphor, travel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs