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Best Dwellings Poems

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Premium Member Of Permanent Dwellings
An episode of birds hovers beneath 
a marmalade moon , just for a while,
as  cotton-clouds sweep
the brushed limbs of a sky ready
to cradle the...

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Categories: dwellings, change, home, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: dwellings, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwellings, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: dwellings, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids, ...

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Categories: dwellings, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Through Eyes of Redwoods
"to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature" William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601

towering redwoods 
forest dwellers born before Christ’s time on Earth
spreading arms to lofty...

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Categories: dwellings, inspirational, naturetime,
Form: Free verse
A Poem As a Tribute On Mothers Day Part 1
A Poem as a Tribute on Mothers  Day Part 1

In the broad day light of one May afternoon,
When the heat of Sun was scorching...

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Categories: dwellings, inspirational, mother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vagabond
Poetry is like medication, in each release of expression,
there is healing - Poet.

In the realms of lost childhoods,
where demons prey upon the defenceless -
no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwellings, analogy, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire
Fire destroyed my home
  Flames engulfed my possessions
    Fire seared a hole in my heart

Wildfires ravage a forest
  Trees, wildlife,...

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Categories: dwellings, death, fire, home, irony,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Magic Beans
Magic Beans of Many Colors

In a magical fairyland I reside, 
herons, toucans, rainbow lorikeets, peacock angels,
hummingbirds, ostrich, even a cockatrice
of magnificent colors that harmonize.
They take...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwellings, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Viva La Elvis - Abridged Version
VIVA LA ELVIS

In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts...

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Categories: dwellings, dedicationheart, lost, day, heart,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Nature In Splendors Freeze
In the still waters of the morning’s glow, I’ve watched the
Frozen silence as the moon quietly melts away, into the chilling
Warmth of the rising run...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dwellings, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Desert Gloaming
In the stray lavender of twilight
as cactis' spindled obelisks
brush spreading lapis sky
a honeyed sun 
holds tight
to desert crags
for a last glimpse
of fulgid sage
and adobe rainbow...

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Categories: dwellings, nature, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Escape Into Reality
ESCAPE INTO REALITY

Escapists---fantasizing about worthless things
Well trained in our worldly ways and feelings
Struggling to visualize our predestined callings
Escapists—fantasizing about worthless things

Reality-- disregarding Eternal majestic dwellings
Pursuing...

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Categories: dwellings, introspection, parody, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
Battle of the Gods
In Monolithic monuments are the bringers of the derelict dawn
I see many idolatrous idols, forged in ancient bibliothecal Babylon
Within worshipful winds, that carry words of...

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Categories: dwellings, abuse, desire, sin,
Form: Rhyme

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