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Best Dormant Poems

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Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: dormant, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In November
In November I write of winter
  for I am weary of the old year and tired bones
I visualize all hardships blanketed with fresh snowfall
geese...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dormant, november, poetry, seasons, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Love
I still recall our first poetic glance,
dormant pen roused my fingers to dance.
Her love was like a cherry blossom tree,
which at first blossomed so beautifully.

When...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dormant, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Poet Is a Bridge
i believe we all
have a poem in our hearts

some need no metaphors

for a poet is a bridge
between words and emotions
connecting hearts and souls
through all four...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dormant, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dormant, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Beautiful Day In Spring
Out of the dark, a lambent, lovely day has dawned
In silvery brilliance the early morning is drowned
In the sapphire sky, the sun has appeared on...

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Categories: dormant, beauty, day, environment, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Put On Your Warrior Spirit
Don't let him sway you with his sultry rhymes
Don't let him woo and steal your heart away
Don't let him touch your soul with soulful lines
You...

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Categories: dormant, strength, woman,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
A Blank Canvas Becomes a Masterpiece
Looking close at the blank canvas.
 Impressions he wanted displayed.
Stroking slow and moving his brush
 an image came forth from Monet.
 Laying dormant all of...

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Categories: dormant, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form: Personification
The Hands of Time-Rondeau
The Hands of Time


The hands of time stand eerie still
Where hearts chamber a cagey chill,
And whispers warn of shadows deep
With eyes that strain as shower’s...

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Categories: dormant, destiny, sleep, time,
Form: Rondeau
Sweet Spring Souvenirs
Now, Spring an echo of a crazy dance
Its music still wrapping the soul in  trance.

Sweet the taste of a season of pure feel
The scent...

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Categories: dormant, friendship love, heart, how
Form: Couplet
Twin Souls
I believe in twin souls, 
not soulmate a twin has a  
connection that can  
never be broken.... 
Lasting through all 
lifetimes 
They just fit and...

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Categories: dormant, true love,
Form: Free verse
Reflecting Ripples
I stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee,
No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality…
Branches droop to ice-cold...

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Categories: dormant, abuse, conflict, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winged Words
Like a creature hibernating in its burrow
Waiting to come out with the first verdure of spring,
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart
Through...

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Categories: dormant, analogy, betrayal, birth, growth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ode To Spring
The light breaks free from winter’s bone
to cast its warmth; to life atone,

to warm the dark; to thaw the chill,
to synthesize through chlorophyll,
a dormant seed...

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Categories: dormant, allegory, analogy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Doorways To Yesterday
The house slumps against overgrown yards
Where gardens wilt against the ground,
Begging for sleep beneath gray skies.
Vines move through weeds 
Like brittle fingers,
Reaching toward a sagging...

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Categories: dormant, memory,
Form: Free verse

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