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Best Demure Poems

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Premium Member Broken
I wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -

once again

she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...

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Categories: demure, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Kind
I will not dim my light so you can shine
I will not still my voice so you can scream
I will not quench my blaze so...

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Categories: demure, truth, woman,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                 ...

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Categories: demure, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Was Her Best Lover- Not For Contest
Poetry was her best lover
like no other
he loved her
without restraint
She could be herself
and explore
discovering
secret pleasures and fantasies

Naked above the covers
he let her lie exposed
as he...

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Categories: demure, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonflower
Oh dreamy lass of fragrant wiles,
            a parasol of white unfurled..
your bloom beguiles her...

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Categories: demure, beauty, desire, flower, moon,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Part Time Poet
She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...

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Categories: demure, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn's Breeze
Autumn’s Breeze

Autumn drapes her lacey hoarfrost
Upon the vanishing vivid leaves of 
Colored trees, upon the fences and fields
Gracing them with her demure beauty.

With her breathy...

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Categories: demure, autumn, nature, november, october,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Cas Tim Jan and Me
You have all heard I am sure of the three musketeers
The group with the swords not the ones with the funny ears

Reminds me of a...

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Categories: demure, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Was Her Best Lover- Adult Content
Poetry was her best lover
Like no other
He loved her
Without restraint
She could be herself
And explore
And discover
Secret pleasures and fantasies
Naked above the covers
He let her lie
Exposed
As he...

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Categories: demure, body, feelings, freedom, sensual,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Veil I Wear
A fire blazes behind the veil 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This veil I wear
is not made of cloth
for no fabric could withstand
the incendiary passion
I command

It's self-imposed
not forced
no man's hand
would...

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Categories: demure, analogy, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak  tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...

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Categories: demure, family, house, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Ballerina
The Ballerina


The curtain parted...there upon the stage,
'neath bright chatoyant spotlight's glaring glow
she stood, a cynosure in tunneled beam;
demure, yet with ineffable glamor.

With lovely bow, this...

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Categories: demure, dance, emotions, music,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unreality Of Tulips In A Vase
The tulips in the vase, 
   a clan of lassies fair.
      Their buds they hold the gold, 
...

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Categories: demure, art, beauty, dream, flower,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
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: demure, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seduction's Abduction
I begin as a covet, dulcet demure
pure in play, unbound to a dogma or tablature, a luscious lure,
I find that nerve of passion's verve nestled...

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Categories: demure, desire, lust, passion, spiritual,
Form: Epic

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