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Best Dragonfly Poems

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Premium Member The Demise of a Newborn Dragonfly
Its delicate wings no longer wet, it stretched well,
And flew up high holding onlookers in its spell.
Round and around it danced over the eerie pond
All...

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Categories: dragonfly, destiny,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Pretty Dragonfly Spreads Love
In a gorgeous meadow chock full of butterflies and daylilies there lived a 
sassy happy beautiful dragonfly.  She was loved by the tulips, roses,...

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Categories: dragonfly, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Silence of Thistle Truth
seasons keep m o v i n g 
 and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n...

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Categories: dragonfly, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Lady
My lady is the wind’s soft sigh through fields of marigolds in June,
A beach night stroll beneath the moon, a cloudless sky, a butterfly.
She waltzes...

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Categories: dragonfly, august, Lullaby,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus

Poets are like magicians.
They trick the heart into feeling, 
“things” they had no idea, were there at all. 

Sadly poets don’t always know how...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dragonfly, 12th grade, abortion, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silver Waves Upon the Shore
Pushed there for a thousand years
and will be for a thousand more,
pushed there by the gentle winds
the silver waves upon the shore.

Ancient trees who watched...

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Categories: dragonfly, death, life, nature, sunset,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Someday
As this week closes into hours of pewter night
may the moonlight touch your lips while
I sleep in the arms of dreams unrefined.
Though I may not...

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Categories: dragonfly, how i feel, time,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member With Life In Tune
I sit with trees around me, green.
The ocean’s in the distance, teal.
A ladybug I’d first not seen
is climbing down to my left heel!
From somewhere in...

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Categories: dragonfly, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kiss of the Breeze
Butterfly rhythms playing on silent wings
 To the verdant refrain of springtime strings

 Iridescent dance of the dragonfly
 Waltzing with the wind beneath azure sky

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dragonfly, flower, spring,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mission Accomplished
I was a skilled, dedicated CIA agent, helping to preserve national security,
By searching for and garnering information, as silvery rain ensures purity.

Days were spent perusing...

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Categories: dragonfly, confusion, fantasy, joy, prayer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Came By
I Came By…
(to see you)

You don’t see me. 
I see you, everyday. 
I am afraid to say hello. 
You may say good-bye. 

I just want...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dragonfly, beautiful, chocolate, cinderella, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Fairies
A long, long time ago in the land of Fays,
     lived a forest nymph of beguiling beauty.
    ...

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Categories: dragonfly, fairy, children, joy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Color of My Heart
Sketch the sunset leaving today behind,
sinking in the footsteps of yesterday.
And feel the ripple of all life combined,
empty your thoughts; take all but love away.

Emblazon...

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Categories: dragonfly, 12th grade, beautiful, character,
Form: Sonnet
3:15 Am
~ 

3:15 am…blurred red numbers tell as
I stir, reaching for what I have seen,
grasping for the moments spent in the presence of beauty
as once again...

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Categories: dragonfly, dream, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Oh, To Meter
I have a friend I’ve never met.
She lives real far away and yet,
For her I have a great affection;
There’s an absolute connection.

If I passed her...

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Categories: dragonfly, friend, poetess,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs