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Best Dressing Table Poems

Below are the all-time best Dressing Table poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dressing table poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Lavender Soap
Mother would tuck into each dresser drawer,
                  ...

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Categories: dressing table, family, happinesseaster,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Destiny and Beyond

A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon,
     and beneath the hood draped over his face the man...

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Categories: dressing table, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member ''The Prince of Time''
A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon,
   and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers;
of a...

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
How Many Enjoy Reunion When the Moon Is Bright
Into the sea spring tides of the river flow,
Out of sea tides does the rising moon glow. 
Glittering waves roll on thousands of miles, 
All...

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Door Is Open
 
A wooden carving of a regal and grand horse stands,
outside to greet and usher customers into the dim.
The windows are a cluttered chaos of...

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Categories: dressing table, nostalgia,
Form: Verse



Through the Veil
I see you as if reflected
in your dressing table mirrors
or the waters of the old garden pond

You hear me through the echos
or whistling little answers...

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Categories: dressing table, caregiving, confusion, death, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prince of Time
A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon,
     and beneath the hood draped over his face the man...

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Categories: dressing table, fantasy, love, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Jacqueline Trestrail
On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she...

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Categories: dressing table, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose
Composed Coffee Cup In Hand
Tall terrace housebow-fronted windows
Opulescent green lined walls silk paper
18th century  French  marquetry  pattern
Glowing dressing  table  walnut  veneer
Smoked salmon kisses...

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Categories: dressing table, family, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Verse
All Is Vanity
My mother was an aristocrat,
at least in her own mind,
she had a certain noble air,
a ramrod for a spine.

She knew her face was beautiful,
exceptional and...

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Categories: dressing table, daughter, death, depression, motherage,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye
She's making love to him as though he'll
pay her with love he would have given
her in the lost years.

She's baking a fruit cake she saw
in...

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Categories: dressing table, break up, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'prince of Time'
A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon,
   and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers;
of a...

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Categories: dressing table, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Girl's Fantasies
Set neatly on her dressing table
Are make-ups and lip sticks.
All sorts of nail polish,
And glittering jewelry
Now lie upon
Her once untidy desktop.
No more Dolls and Tea...

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Categories: dressing table, childhood, daughter, life, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Touches of Femininity
Touches Of Femininity. 

Strips of daylight
Emanate through blinds onto wooden floor
Wrinkled sheets and crumpled pillows from the night before
The perfume of two bodies after sleep...

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Categories: dressing table, beautiful, beauty, feelings, relationship,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Detritus
Detritus 

Sitting there, honey,
Cleansed and bathed,
Scented with lilac and rose,
Glistening at your dressing table, and
Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror;
I, as your guest, sit by...

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Categories: dressing table, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs