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Best Diminish Poems

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Like a Tree In the Desert
Prick me with your vivid green awareness
Let the white pins that needle me
Diminish into their foggy sham

The bridal wreath that scented our commitment
Now doused in...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diminish, absence, anger, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Share Not
When I go out to dinner,
I do not want to share.
I don’t care what is on your plate;
I don’t want to compare.

I scan the menu...

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Categories: diminish, food, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Captain Tom
You will have probably heard this story, it's often been told
About Captain Tom who's ninety nine years old
He's a Second World War veteran who's served...

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Categories: diminish, tribute, western,
Form: Narrative
Christmas Eve With My Sweetheart
My darling, my dearest, my loving man –
it is a perfect fire you have going,
the atmosphere is Christmas-cheer glowing.
I delight in you, me and our...

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Categories: diminish, character, christmas, good night,
Form: Free verse
Rhyme God
Enter the Everest that devastates 
as he never ever rests and demonstrates 
his quick wit picnic of traits that place 
with lickety split flicks on...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diminish, slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Whore and the Sea Part 2
You know sailor man,
You woke the spirit in me
I thought you were drunken and carefree
I could not hope or dream
The whore of the seas must...

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Categories: diminish, allegory, angel, destiny, french,
Form: Free verse
Friends and Lovers Who Agree To Disagree
Any kind of love worth having,
Understands that disagreements happen,
And does not diminish when the first disagreement surfaces,
No, it will stay around and show its true...

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Categories: diminish, appreciation, blessing, care, character,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member With You In Mind
Walking in sailor fields amongst the nettles picking blackberries,
the brambles cut deep savage the mind. Yet the bowl to be filled
the jam to be boiled...

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Categories: diminish, memory,
Form: Haibun
Breathe Close To Me
Breathe close to me, let not your head droop 
nor your face grimace in fierce grief, 
for when I must leave, all will not leave...

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Categories: diminish, allegory, appreciation, devotion, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Inspiration
Oh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And...

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Categories: diminish, inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Casual Observation
It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic...

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Categories: diminish, angst,
Form: Haibun
The Devil Is In the Details
You have to know he is near, you have to know he is around
Perhaps sensing it in your fear or a feeling of being bound
You...

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Categories: diminish, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Hard Rocky Crags Meet White Foamy Sea
Where Hard Rocky Crags Meet White Foamy Sea

Where hard rocky crags meet white foamy sea
rip-roaring splashes, sing softly to me.
Under starlit heavens, big yellow moon
Our...

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Categories: diminish, art, blessing, dedication, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Heloise On Abelard
These barren walls
Keep me chaste
Vows of silence
Diminish nothing of wanton passions of the past
Days in silence, looking upwards to God
Thoughts linger, to where true love...

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Categories: diminish, beauty, history, love, me,
Form: Light Verse
Baqreid the 2nd Eid
This day to celebrate the supreme sacrifice
of the ancient prophet Abraham
This day to ponder and reminisce
that divine substitution of Ismail for a ram! 

This Quranic...

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Categories: diminish, celebration, faith,
Form: Tazkira

Book: Shattered Sighs