Best Eap Poems

The romantic sees dreams

  At the dusk's sultry light

  For the wrong , that he'll right

  In the pacifists fight

  With the spark he'll ignite .


Inspired by Brian's rhyme time theme .....

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Mmmm, steamy, hot and black.....I love it...anywhere, any kind!

In the Starbucks coffee house, on the corner of 3rd and Pine...
As the radio plays the oldies...while we're driving Route 99
With the family around a table, and some lovely friends of mine
And the best is in my...

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Your true friend sees you ...

   By the smile showing pride .

    As the strength by their  side .

     By the trust you'll  confide .

      As the brakes ,...

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The midnight stars still gleam:

and the dark sky just beams

with the light bouncing off the stream

by the end of the night it always seems

as the day goes by the light controls my dreams...

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The rain continues to plummet and fall 
And the gray of the day looks like it will never go away.
I long for the boisterous blue of a hot summer’s day.
It seems our shy sun has wandered and meandered astray
From today’s and tomorrow’s forecast much to...

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The blood boiled 
In the pit of frustration set ablaze
With the wrath and the rage of the day’s
Constant commotion—can’t clear the haze
Of chaos causing and creating this craze....

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eap-SWEETHEART

The sweetheart loves dearly:

in her dreams dreamed sincerely

and her soul grips hope clearly

by the hope she holds merely 

in the arms of trust, nearly

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
    January 12, 2010


Inspired by Poetry Soup member contest:  RHYME TIME 	
Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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The poet hears silence;

in the eyes of grief

within the clouds motif

in the falling leaf

of the haiku,brief...

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But nevermore my harsh friend, for I hear Kipling poignantly 
Clearer now, when he beseeched “If neither foes nor loving friends 
can hurt you.” I am holding nothing against you. But allow me a wry 
smile as I imagine you sneering, or with morbid bacchanalian
fashion...

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My mother was the  very best cook
In the beginning though she was not
And the very first pie she cooked got
In the house hidden out of sight in a pot
By the night thrown through floor pine knot


Inspired by Brian Strands but not an entry. ...

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The artist creates art:

with the portrait passe
in the still life display
of the abstract soufle
in the objets trouve

Why not try one of these yourself in my latest contes 'RHYME TIME'...

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eap- One navy pilot  sweating out the flag,
as the orange ignites, searing metals shine,
and the jolt aloft, with an fermine whine,
then the falcons queue, then plunge in line,
to the scarlet blooms I can claim as mine....

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eap-GRANDMOTHERS

A grandmother loves grandsons:

in the womb, at childbirth

and the times sad or with mirth

by the soul without girth 

in the love, with no dearth

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
     January 12, 2010


Inspired by Poetry Soup member contest:  RHYME TIME 	
Sponsored by: Brian...

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For so long you’ve held the key, the scepter and the crown,
Harrowing the reality, the subconscious, the deep within.
Your voice was deep, poignant, forbidding. Clattering like,
The tumbling down of ancient and spidery bones, swishing
Like the dust raised by warm nocturnal winds above the grave, 
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eap-DISASTER

When disaster befalls a people;
In the midst of desperation
And the mountains of frustrations
With the mercy of divine intercession
By the kindness of neighbors restoration

Eap-Earthquake disaster in Haiti –January 2010...

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