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Best Deftness Poems

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Blood
 
Fumes of valor,
Sins weighing all the hopes lost,
Demeanor of power,
craving for success whatever's the cost,
Deftness of a prodigy,
It carries it all,
It carries everything you...

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Categories: deftness, anger, discrimination, emotions, irony,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mist On the River
Mist rises quiet
Thru the liquid reflection
A river’s silence
~
Foggy mornings weigh
Gentle on my thoughts, my heart
Cooling my spirit
~
Sweet whispers grumble
Across smooth stones, in rapids
Venturing past pines
~
The...

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Categories: deftness, inspirational, nature, river, words,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Logical Astuteness
Education has never deluded me,
it is a rich mine from which my gemstones are extracted;
and all of them can adorn with its brilliance 
a king's...

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Categories: deftness, education, history, people, philosophywords,
Form: Sestina
Sands of Forgiveness
Deep within, settle our diamonds of hate;
Descending, slowly through our mind, heart and soul.
Hurts refined and ignored, forgotten in fate;
At first nothing but, a burning...

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Categories: deftness, faith, fate, forgiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vowel-Consonant
Awaking to exceptional day, I noticed obviously gross, uncut grass,
all glaringly exhibiting growth in degrees ordinarily considered unusual.
My ambition to erase the ill look of...

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Categories: deftness, write, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mountain Stream
Lucent snake
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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deftness, mountains, water,
Form: Verse
Prate On
A poison pen
And a hypocritical conscience
Can so easily be cloaked in 
High morality

Prate on
Knock them down
With words
Slay them in the name of
Public opinion

Write on
Right all...

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Categories: deftness, feelings, jealousy, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Blind
Bringing out the light from the dark
Expunge evil from a makers mark

God cleanse it, the deftness aptly applied
Dumbness and deafness, captured astride

Too daft to get...

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© Tim B  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deftness, faith, political, religion,
Form: Couplet
Happy Resolve
As I set upon my stoop today,
a nervous smug permeated.
Child like joy coming my way,
excited what fate has slated.

I believe in a future that's bright,
whether...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deftness, character, encouraging, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
The Captive Angel
THE SNOW and coarse wind both plunge down over oceans
Unbound and unmeasured by obstinate sailors
Who drift while confronting ungrappled emotions
Like obdurate petrels and stoical whalers....

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Categories: deftness, angel, death, life, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Assignment For Ms. Burroughs
The Poet
On the cruise ship was an unknown poet,
His style so hot, that none could approach it.
Not the smartest guy, don’t be quick to judge,
Doesn’t...

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Categories: deftness, adventure, imagination, social, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ''Lolita'': a Poetic Study In Seduction
*(A lyric on the sweet seductions of a lovely, vampish nymph and man-eater named Lolita.).


With a body so fine and rare
    ...

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Categories: deftness, desire, evil, love, lust,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Bacon Sizzlin' In the Skillet
Many are the memories of Hoosier farm life as a lad that I recall.
One was what Dad called 'hog renderin' that occurred every fall.
When he...

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Categories: deftness, dad, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Leader
The eagle’s wings flap with elegance and vigor;
even though the wind blows with great strength and power.
While both branch and twig sway due to a...

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Categories: deftness, flying, leadership,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Magic of Dance
When I hit the dance floor,
I feel I am free and in a magical place,
free to pour.

My emotions,
passion, zest show through deftness, grace,
motions.

Upbeat
with magic pace.
Feat.

When...

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Categories: deftness, art, dance, feelings, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs