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Best Divan Poems

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Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: divan, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Poetic Diva of Serenity



On her velvet, aquamarine divan, 
    With poetic thoughts, so sylvan.

At peace with midnight’s universe.
    The starlit sky, understands...

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Categories: divan, beautiful, imagery, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Death of Merat
I leave the auction sick, my mettle frayed
A ghost, I fear, in oil clutched near my side
No doubt, a ghost for which I've dearly paid!
How...

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Categories: divan, dark, death,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A World Without Pity
After wishing me a good morning, he said that it was all set,
It was time to raze the house, even though I wasn't in debt!

But...

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Categories: divan, adventure, fantasy, home, lost,
Form: Couplet
The Ambiance
In chilly sensation held
Wrapped within warm quilt
I could almost feel my balmy
Breath condense through the 
Air
With the odor of my favorite
Scents swarming through my
Hair
I sit...

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Categories: divan, education, happiness, passion
Form: Free verse



Mevlana
Did I not tell you, ‘Do not leave, for I am your friend’?
For in this mirage of nothingness I am the Fountainhead of Life!
Even if...

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© Can Yucel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: divan, absence, abuse, addiction, analogy,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Dancing In the Grave Yard
I dance upon you
and your spirit I lift
in to my heart.
I dance upon you all
I dance where I can
in between the headstones
on grasses of divan,
where...

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Categories: divan, dedication, love, dance, dance,
Form: Free verse
Jon, Them Thin Hands See
(For a blind man…)

Sighted vision is a mystery.
Whether sitting on the divan,
Busily washing a dishpan,
Or sitting outside getting a tan.
Jon, them thin hands see.

Whether using...

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Categories: divan, life, mystery, people, social
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pages From An Era
Into a garden sprayed by night's rain,
Jen  slouches under a dim lamplight
as the wind gushes on her divan
sweeping pages of a long era,
jotted down...

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Categories: divan, freedom, introspection, words,
Form: Lyric
Dirty Pig of Muck
What say you when a pig bathe in a muddy muck?
When he rolls merrily like 'tis panacea to his strain?
Don't you gawk at the amazing...

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Categories: divan, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Injustice Is the Legacy of Man
Injustice is the legacy of man
It is the tainted ground on which he stands

Do not put your trust in earthling man
Why, he cannot wield his...

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Categories: divan, america, god, life, men,
Form: Couplet
The Piano Tuner
The rain clouds gather outside and
I see his umbrella bouncing over the hedge.
I hear him enter the gate with case in hand;
He slowly closes the...

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Categories: divan, on work and working
Form: Free verse
A Whiff of Canterbury Tails
85
 Feedback comes to those who apply and post and expect to receive the same 
when you place a silver dollar in your mouth you...

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Categories: divan, fantasy, funny, history, on
Form: Prose Poetry
Solitude
Inclined on the divan with a book,  in my room, I was all alone,
Wrapped in a quilt tucked around my feet, the wind’s moan….
In...

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Categories: divan, feelings,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Estella Murray 1891-1912
Estella Murray

1891-1912

Johnny’s was the last face 

I saw that April afternoon in 1912.

I admit I was mean to him,

As mean as a starving she-dog in...

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Categories: divan, death, youth,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Shattered Sighs