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Best Detects Poems

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Premium Member The Awakening - POTD
POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when...

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Categories: detects, dance, growth, journey, lost
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Our Boogeyman
Our Boogeyman


There is a boogeyman within
this home of ours, we swear he's here!
He comes and goes to mess with us
and bring about a silly fear.

It...

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Categories: detects, crazy, fear, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Let Go
Notice how the birds sing long after we listen.
We oft’ are engulfed with our trampoline thoughts.

With gossiping beaks, they chirp and they flap.
We mimic their...

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Categories: detects, bird, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Autumn Breeze
AUTUMN BREEZE

When the magic is gone
	and all the stars have fallen,
do I just sit and wait for my final calling?

Is there still something
	to do, out...

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Categories: detects, death, destiny, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Introspection
Written: May 05, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detects, animal, dream, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eyes
EYES

The round-of-life scene,
Hope of hereafter,
An aspect between

Movement hinders sight      and more
A sandy beach
Spread at the shore

Glaze    ...

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Categories: detects, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Awakening - a Video Poem
Awakened by the creaking of the dying trees 
In this barren land devoid of a breeze
Imprisoned dreams in a land of unpicked seams
Endless chasms of...

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Categories: detects, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Grace and Solitude
Emerging from sleep dream temerity,
his remote aurora  spectral prisms
from which his wakefulness gives legerity,
from which surfaces new burgeoning aphorisms.

Truth’s contours arrayed in fluid fluency,
his...

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Categories: detects, grief, hope, humanity, military,
Form: Rhyme
A Glimpse Within - I
The salt water
baubles washes
gently
upon the jetty sent
from lands distant.
Pushed by a hovering
yellow moon,
sometimes built into
thunderous waves
		of hurricanes.
Change comes rapidly
and dangerously
as the sea meets
yesterday coming
back.
It speaks...

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Categories: detects, depression, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Probably Whining
Whining, it happens when blizzards come calling
Grabbing a jacket I walk down the stairs
Beside the window where winter is lurking
Waiting about as if nobody cares

Coating...

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Categories: detects, fun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blood Clots
How marvelous that when we bleed,
To staunch a flow with little speed,
If not too deep, no bandaid need.

A miracle occurs indeed:
The platelet, wondrous little seed,
Exposed...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: detects, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Charlie Chan Does It Again
Charlie
That's Me

Detects
Suspects

Here's Clue
For Flu

Veggie
Suey

Ban Food
No Good

You Do
Flu Through

My Fee
Chablis

Glug Glug
Chug Chug...

So Long
Drink Gone...

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Categories: detects, celebrity, drink, health, word
Form: Footle
Premium Member The Rose Amidst the Thorns
As my way is made among the thorns,
An inner beauty a rose adorns.
A darkness present, tries to hide,
Still, the rose blooms bright inside.

The thicket of...

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Categories: detects, beauty, heart, love, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Colors of Life
Color, beautiful colors so fair.
Decorates life with beauty, gemstones.
Days without splendor could bring despair.

The human retina, its rods and cones,
Designed to paint man’s world with...

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Categories: detects, people, science, sympathy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Good Old Days - Journal
EYES - 

The round-of-life scene,
Hope of hereafter,
An aspect between

Movement hinders sight      and more
A sandy beach
Spread at the shore

Glaze  ...

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Categories: detects, death,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs