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Best Descent Poems

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Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: descent, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Tis You
‘Tis You’

It’s a tempestuous, wuthering, wuthering day
as I set forth exuberant and merrily on my way.
I pause to hearken to the symphony of sound
as natures...

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Categories: descent, love, romance,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
Premium Member Love Song To My Rose
"From deep within my heart
I always catch the scent
of my Beloved. How can I
help but follow that fragrance?"    By Rumi


I am a...

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Categories: descent, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...

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Categories: descent, america, childhood, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quietus
In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent 
a martyr wades - 
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed...

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Categories: descent, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Promise I Can'T Keep
The sun was setting with a breeze
Seductively sliding behind the trees
Watching his descent
Was quite the event
I witnessed a day to night striptease

He left me with...

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Categories: descent, sunset,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Same Sky
I sit alone on a dark, lonely night
As tranquil moments gently enfold me
Gazing at stars sprinkling the sky so bright
As my dreams float upwards and...

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Categories: descent, dream, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Miracle In the Ghetto (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)
Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the...

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Categories: descent, family, holiday, hope, upliftingme,
Form: Narrative
Unbroken Reconciliation
18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth. ...

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Categories: descent, december, father daughter, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaking the Surface
A millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply 
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .  
something from...

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Categories: descent, allegory, hope,
Form: Free verse
How I Miss You
I miss you 
With every longing breath
That pants in sweet silence.
With every insatiable spark 
that ignites my being
And with infinite tears of all my life
That...

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Categories: descent, passion, romantic,
Form: Free verse
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - Repost
I thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because 
it might help someone see things a little differently or...

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Categories: descent, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Go Ask Alice
With enlightenment, not inhalation, 
drawn from Jefferson Airplane's (Starship?) 'White Rabbit.' 
(written by Grace Slick)

A Monotetra ~

Don't be drawn into that fairytale
with the Cheshire Cat's...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: descent, grief,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Rain
I am summer rain for whose arrival you eagerly await.
Sitting on your porch, you watch my descent.
As I mix and mingle the elements, kneading pulverized...

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Categories: descent, nature, rain, summer,
Form: Personification
Apollo 11
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
were the three that made up the crew
to be the first men to set foot on the moon
was what they were determined...

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Categories: descent, historyjuly, success,
Form: Rhyme

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