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Best Deftly Poems

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Premium Member I See You
I See You...

Wanderer, wanderer, lost in the haze
void of direction, succumb to the craze.
Give ear to my madness, so deftly designed;
deception de-jour: aimed to muddle...

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Categories: deftly, confusion, corruption, emotions, hyperbole,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: deftly, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Breaths and Fireglow
in silence, we connect through gazes
knitted by starlit eyes ablaze
like dusk's luster wafting by the sill ...
and we need not ramble in paraphrases
of  night’s...

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Categories: deftly, inspirational, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: deftly, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Tame the Tempest
They know how to press those buttons,
With just a familiar chosen word or two,
How to enrage one's spirit with a tone,
A glance sharp enough to...

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Categories: deftly, anger, feelings, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Psalm To the Artist
The Lord weaves His grand tapestry across the skies
He outlines charcoal colored clouds with silver threads 
sews the sunlight of dawn into rays that caress...

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Categories: deftly, beauty, creation, sky, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bloom Road


               Bloom Road



Wherefore be this heavenly place?
Untouched by the metropolis'
inhumane demands?
Tis in your heart, dear friend, such 
a place...

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Categories: deftly, courage, encouraging, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Between the Extremes - POTD
In the nighttime hours
As the world deftly creeps by
I summon my powers
Spread my wings and fly
Past cotton clouds,
Snow-capped mountains, white
I am lost and I am...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deftly, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member The Carcass
The shell remains
picked clean by hungry vultures
ravenous with greed.
Gouged-out eyes
now bare hollow sockets
vacant in their stare.
Morsels of choice parts 
deftly stripped or torn away—
and gutted...

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Categories: deftly, imagery, urban,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 1
Flings and wings and rings rejected…
 Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”

Penciled lines drew...

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Categories: deftly, lost love, stars,
Form: Rhyme
In His Bed Part 2
continued.......

In his bed she hears him approach with long strides.
The covers are over her head as she pretends to hide.
With one swift yank she is...

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Categories: deftly, passionlonging, body, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The View From Up Above
From high above the mighty eagles soar
and gaze with teary eyes upon the land;
a proud and peaceful nation thrived, before 
the bombs began to fall...

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Categories: deftly, evil, horror, war,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: deftly, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
A Venetian Honeymoon
A gondola floats o’er romantic tides
as you and I caress Venetian skies
laced deftly in exalted stars applied 
by brushes dipped in hues of lover’s eyes....

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Categories: deftly, marriage, romance, travel, vacation,
Form: Sonnet
So It Shall Be
“ So It Shall Be ”

Aye... then so it shall be...
as faire lass doth so request now o'me.
A'holler so 'twas that o'which she'd asked...
In a...

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Categories: deftly, adventure, time, time,
Form: Rhyme

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