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Best Dictate Poems

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Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dictate, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member In the Mood
lately, i have been in this female mood
for some kind of abandon, that
which exhales the tigress fire
out of my lungs digging the veins
from a week's'...

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Categories: dictate, adventure, woman,
Form: Light Verse
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: dictate, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Century-Twenty Two
A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the...

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Categories: dictate, social, society,
Form: Free verse
Soliloquy of a Puppetmaster 2020
Now is the summer of our discontent
Made glorious opportunity for change
And all the clouds that lower on our land
In the bosom of the media rearranged

While...

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Categories: dictate, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Waiting
                       Spring awaits...

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Categories: dictate, longing, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gems That Are Precious Memories
My Lost Friend

Where have you been, where have you gone
it is been a long time, as if it were yesterday
time goes by but it is...

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Categories: dictate, appreciation, art, best friend,
Form: Free verse
My Lost Friend
Where have you been, where have you gone
it is been a long time, as if it were yesterday
time goes by but it is still today
that...

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© James Lutz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dictate, death, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Meaningless Words
Take elsewhere on your tongue
Ponder seldom being wrong
Slip away where near is rare
Battle lions in their lair
Educate the underclass
Run fingers over broken glass
Tell time again...

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Categories: dictate, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Undyings' Curse
Deep in the earth, a crypt of rock
slumber guarded by casket locked
Lips grope silence ‘ever more
 rasping thought, remembers whispered lore
Outstretched palms the roots do...

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Categories: dictate, adventure, allusion, analogy, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Souperstarstruck
It is a dazzling display of brilliance, this conglomeration of constellations from different skies above as many different seas.  I look at them, and...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dictate, life, poetry, thank you,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Music
Music is the mood in your bones
Keep it rolling like the stones
Vibrations that direct the soul
Sensations to dictate your role
Melody to make you feel at...

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© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dictate, music,
Form: Rhyme
Intuition Invade Illuminate
Because I love you, ensemble, 
we could embezzle our happiness
A moment at a time.

Because I love you, we could grant
ourselves, experience the fullness
of love, by...

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Categories: dictate, desire, first love, miss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Time When the Heart Beat Slows
“In the time when the heart beat slows” 

In the time when 
the heart beat slows
I close my eyes 
and meet you there
that place of...

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Categories: dictate, dream, heart, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fire and Ice

Embers and snowflakes, fire and ice;
     opposites joined in many ways.
          Embers...

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Categories: dictate, metaphor, war, weather, world,
Form: Rhyme

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