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Best Discordant Poems

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Premium Member Wallpaper
WALLPAPER

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Paper Thin
Cut down to any size,
Crumble, crop me wrong 
Pull the insulation from my heart.
Never will I be "A Paper Doll!"
Thank you for calling me...

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Categories: discordant, change, creation, friend, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Visitor Finale - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far…
Makani (The Rising Wind), a beautiful extra-terrestrial researcher is sent to a remote island to observe earth. She finds Sam, a shipwrecked...

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Categories: discordant, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Deception - POTD
POTD 4th Nov 2019

Vanquishing all reservation
 twilight's prelude heralds
 shadowy anticipation
of a secret amorous thirst
He surrenders once more
to his darkest desires 
amplifies the sultry ambiance
with...

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Categories: discordant, conflict, desire, passion, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member WHO WAS SHE
 WHO WAS SHE

I intuited the radiance before
I even laid eyes on her
Moving with a self-assured poise
that came from deep within
was a quintessence of a...

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Categories: discordant, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: discordant, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative



Not One Word
Silence
The sweet rhapsody of quietness
Sit back and savor
the music of the void,
where no dissonant voices are heard
It's so relaxing in this soundless realm;
break not the...

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Categories: discordant, dream, imagery, love, sleep,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Shine
At times when the night glows so dark
And dawning too rises clouding the arc
Be the street lamp ceaselessly bright
Be the candle with halo of angelic...

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Categories: discordant, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eventide
Eventide eases a discordant day
as peach amber contrails billow on high.
Pink ginger crawls throughout dark smoky gray
and fades as peaceful night’s cover grows nigh.

An informal...

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Categories: discordant, color, conflict, day, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Kreutzer Sonata
(In 1807, Beethoven wrote a piano/violin
piece with this title.  Count Leo Tolstoy
followed in 1890, with a short novel of the
same name, in which he...

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Categories: discordant, marriage, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In Praise of All Old Friends
Of all old friends, those we have of old are best;
These the souls we travel with by preference,
Theirs the spirits to whom we grant all...

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Categories: discordant, day, friend, heart, old,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Green Waltz
Mary Jane aka ganja, grass, marijuana and a host of other names.

Serenity is yours to gain
being led in dance to fairyland
swing waltz with Mary Jane

Sapped...

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Categories: discordant, happiness
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member October Fest
Homes so recently abandoned
for Sunday swims and picnics
have become indoor respites
from the restless chill of change.

Secure, still days have vanished,
with hazy meadows humming.
Fireflies have met...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: discordant, autumn, halloween, magic,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member On Loving a Rock Star - Redux
Lavish locks sprawl pillowed in peace this morn.
Gently whiskered cheeks hint of last night's lipstick
Tensions banished blue grassy fiddling lingers
Let's take it easy

I'll make the...

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Categories: discordant, love, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Upbeat
Before there was a world or a word 
there was unfathomable loneliness
in the gaseous expanse of pin pricked night
an infinite course of vibrations, sound
nascent, coalescing,...

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Categories: discordant, god, inspirational, introspection, longing,
Form: Sestina
Where Echoes Hide
Negativity echoes in the distressed mind
Crashing like Tsunami waves with beatings well timed

I am no good...         ...

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Categories: discordant, abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme

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