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Best Deft Poems

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Premium Member My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not...

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Categories: deft, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member curvaceous
my fingertips
touch ...
tender, but with melodic intent
you tremble
just SO ...
and sigh sweetly
the delightful answer
to my questioning hands
a gentle press ...
your supple curves against me
fitting me...

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Categories: deft, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member edge of a whisper -
how deft of you to open up my veins

      with little but his name upon your lips

   ...

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Categories: deft, beauty, break up, goodbye,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner
He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He...

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Categories: deft, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rainbow's Magic
A Rainbow’s Magic

A rainbow’s magic reflects God’s majestic and divine touch,
Giving us a panoply of colored images which mean so much.

The wonder of God’s enchanted...

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Categories: deft, beauty, god, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Fairer, Indeed
WOMEN ...

Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of...

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Categories: deft, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chasing the Sun
Rushing through each day, as if I had not a care,
head long toward the sun screaming, "catch me if you dare."
Dripping drabs of liquid sunshine...

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Categories: deft, angst,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dad Is Coming Home Tonight
Our  house is abuzz
With Me, Bella and Jess 
And Mummy is all delight
“Dad’s coming home tonight! “

The Cake has been made
The table has been...

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Categories: deft, 10th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Come Poetry
*** COME POETRY ***

Belle Poetry! Be kind!
I am already exhausted
From long passed hours
Taking dictation from you — I am
But human and sometimes fragile,
While you often...

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Categories: deft, christian, inspiration, perspective, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
The Hooker
It was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We...

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© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deft, fun, golf, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Fun - the Beach Story
The seashore is a wondrous stage, for in the sun's delight,
I sit and watch a play unfold- it's there within my sight!

Those beauties, young with...

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Categories: deft, beach, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stove - For Contest
I’m smooth and sleek with cute curves
I always manage to attract your attention
You can’t wait to get your hands on me ...
Know all the right...

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Categories: deft, fun, imagination, sensual, word
Form: Personification
Guilt
There exists no more certain 
assassin of joy than that of
anger turned within.
Guilt’s grim scepter,
harrowed mind thus firmly wields,
and this with deft uncommon,
to bring renewed...

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Categories: deft, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Uniquely Me
I'm allergic to sugar which helps me keep slim
If I eat too much, congestion makes me grim

Never bought lipstick, my lips are naturally dark red
People...

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Categories: deft, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Arcturus Treasure
ARCTURUS TREASURE 

Just standing in the handle of the dipper.
Drinking stars from inside her silver slipper.
The cup is buoyed up in ancient liquid light.
And Ursula...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deft, imagery, journey, mythology, stars,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things