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Best Dialect Poems

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Premium Member Comin' Hame - Coming Home -Scottish Dialect
A angry sky, as cauld as Loch Lomon'
fair drew me out from cot o' peat, an' bed.
The wolves wus wailin', an' thund'r respond'd
Ah gather'd tam,...

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Categories: dialect, absence, culture, faith, farm,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.

Ill-naitur'd  fishwife...

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Categories: dialect, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: dialect, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Initiative
How do I tell you that you’re beautiful?

How can I be different?

How can I express my attraction?

When columns upon
Columns
Of testosterone filled wolves
Dressed in rented Italian...

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Categories: dialect, friendship, life, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because
I was a fool.

I was a fool searching for reasons why.

Reasons why I
Grin with sudden boy giggles

As if Karma was my DJ,
Playing cotton candy woven...

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Categories: dialect, dream, innocence, life,
Form: Free verse



Maiden of Musical Moonshine

Music is an undying 
art of soul ~ 
an abstract eden, where, 
euphonious unicorns 
glide in strawberry sonatas, 
amplifying rhapsody in
ballads of flight, 
when fuchsia...

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Categories: dialect, art, deep, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Diminished Respect
There was a time.

There was a time
When your fabled dreams
Seemed honest

A time when
Your open arms
Coated in dented silver and tainted dreams
Understood my Size 12 shoes

When...

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Categories: dialect, life, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Night Stanza
You called me "baby"
When your eyes streaked
In nudist dialect
Upon my strength

You begged to engorge
My palms
With cinnamon scented lotion

Taking me into melancholic forest
To sacrifice your shedding,...

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Categories: dialect, life, lust, people,
Form: Free verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: dialect, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plum Blossom
my flower ...
she sang for me -
ONLY for me
always in Japanese …
I did not know the words
I never asked her to translate
nor did I want...

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Categories: dialect, analogy, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voice - Potd
Voice

Through a vast jumbled valley of cacophony's roar
One voice 
 In tones of soprano, alto, tenor and bass
Speaks a universal epiphany
In a rumbling
 Resonate
 ...

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Categories: dialect, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So much Love to give
 O beloved rose in my 
  garden of fairy-lamps,
would you bloom in hues of stardust?
let the daffodil moon 
  envy this fragrant...

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Categories: dialect, break up, fantasy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Fragrance Of Forgiveness

As the apologetic sun
melts in hibiscus vase
of pastel-peach 
horizons and peels off
those pristine pigments 
of egoistic elegance, 
sailing upon 
aquamarine foam
of vanilla waves ~
where dignity
unveils...

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Categories: dialect, angst, anxiety, deep, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Sudoku Life
And I walk
across numerical figments
speaking hyperbole dialect to their imaginations.

Numb, blocky gaps
whisper invitation to secret club.

Enticing my stature
to belong
to become exponent’s side-kick.

So they can welcome...

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Categories: dialect, art, computer-internet, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confessions In Her Confidence -
I know where she prays within the necessity of nightfall
inside the Poets' Pantheon, an isolated Idol
they all came, close as envy can to care,
flowers and...

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Categories: dialect, nature,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things