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Best Delaney Poems

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Premium Member Susan Ashley: Daydreamer
Susan
wife of Bill,
mother of Brock, Julianna, Jocelyn, Marcus
Heather and Billy, Jr.
grandmother of Logan, Delaney and Isaac
daughter of Alice and Albert and sister of Michael and...

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Categories: delaney, introspection,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Fall - Sweet Lass
A Constanza (in Connie's own precious poetry form) written in tribute to this amazing friend and poet:

A lass so beautiful is she,
and like a dear...

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Categories: delaney, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
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: delaney, food,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When the Wanderer Returns
As winter trees exhume their leaves
for spring
and Autumns' sacrifice 
retreats in memory 
Summers of sangria blossoms 
drape their crimson blooms-

exhale against an arc of sighing...

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Categories: delaney, absence, adventure, childhood, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Outback Christmas
Excitement filled the bushland as December was near
Every creature had been waiting for Christmas time - all year.
Wallabies hung their stockings on a  gumtree...

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Categories: delaney, children, christmas, december, kids,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fall From Grace a Roundel
Before the beginning of time when Chaos ruled Hell and Night
Into the depths of this Cosmos, a Paradise, perfectly placed.
Above this darkness, a heaven drawn...

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Categories: delaney, bible, creation, evil, god,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member How To Die
At a carnival- in my dream
I saw an old man had made 
a rocket - and blasted off
I saw it go overhead and at first...

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Categories: delaney, age, death, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All I Have In Life
All I Have in Life

My joyful 'witchy' friend
thinks only good of ev'ryone
She taught me how love works
conspires constantly with angels;
captured my soul in water colors
She's...

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Categories: delaney, absence, best friend, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Earth As It Is
These are the times
I sit and ponder at the beauty of it all,
amazed at the bounty of my blessings
Overburdened with foolish reminiscing
For the time has...

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Categories: delaney, animal, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn - Constanza
Colors she wowed in autumn's praise
Where tinted leaves turn fiery red,
Where gamboge dye prairies imbed.

Meadows winsome in crimson blaze
Inspired poems of heartfelt themes
Strumming passions of...

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Categories: delaney, autumn, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn - Constanza
Autumn winds chant a soulful tune
Elusive songs they choose to play
as maple branches bend and sway

Aspen trees drop their leaves too soon
Hues of umber, amber...

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Categories: delaney, autumn, farewell, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thinking of you
Anne-Lise Andresen-  "Hugs"
Anisha Dutta- "Sweet Lady" 
Beata Agustin- "Spiritual" 
Bill Baker- "Friend from Texas" 
Brandy Nicole- "Whispers & Scribbles" 
Brian Sambourne- "One of my...

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Categories: delaney, friend, in memoriam,
Form: List
Premium Member Every Beautiful Thing
Lightning , rainbows, mountains, oceans, clouds
What seems to be random in creation, taunts us.
Dreamy, drifting, sometimes dangerous
every emotion, every sense, every molecule connected.

Plants, creatures, meteors,...

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Categories: delaney, beauty, change, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Our Deck-Front In December
From
our pink deck with a Jarra  cocktail table-set
We sit awaiting  sunset with an
 ‘Hawaiian absence’ of seagulls
As dusk comes  with violet echoes
across...

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Categories: delaney, absence, boat, culture, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dialogue of Place
Should I whisper words
that hang on memory’s peaks,
cumulous across my forehead?

A world of words - connected
like tides to the moon.

Words that mingle and rise,
as mist...

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Categories: delaney, feelings, life, nature, word
Form: Free verse

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