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Best Edifying Poems

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Premium Member Glorious Edifying Romantic Words
Glorious words, 
romantic missives, 
Unused obscure
edifying words 

created, or 
used in fantastically
beautiful ways 
by 
lexiconic guru,
and vocabulary maestro.

Intimidating 
most of us. 
Me anyway. 

I do...

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Categories: edifying, poetry, write, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Edifying Autumn
Summer fades as thunder clouds roll in,

Darkened skies hold lightning bolts within.

Autumn rain shares laughter with the din.

As splashes of hues become akin,

A race in...

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Categories: edifying, autumn, beauty, change, poetry,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Forlorn Hope
Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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Categories: edifying, lost love, moving on,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When Butterflies Dance to Moon's Song
Curving, swirling, in moonlit stance, butterflies merrily dance,
Undulating tenor of nocturnal music, beneath stellar expanse,
When celestial orchestra plays, occult notes of galactic tune,
As titillations of...

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Categories: edifying, butterfly, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Forest of My Dreams
Where conifers gaily waltz tempos evergreen
Unspoiled by human deeds, pure, and pristine,
Eagles soar there, spanning freedom wings 
And trees gently whisper to rhythmic bird trills
Echoing...

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Categories: edifying, environment, inspiration, rainforest,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Flower of Life and Rebirth
Oh, beatific lotus flower, blossom of my pious soul
How brilliantly you ascend, sparkling in sunrise gold
Being the emissary of divinity ancient tenets behold
Invigorating spiritual vibes...

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Categories: edifying, flower, inspiration, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Ode
God Sent--Amazing Angel
How can this be...
I not understand
I am waiting for the big bomb shell
to explode... or something

I mean... I am waiting for the floor
to slip out...

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© Star Light  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edifying, caregiving, inspirational, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Fed
Her language drips with intelligence
The slow drizzle of innuendos
and proclamations from which
she speaks is like witnessing
stalagmites and stalagtites  
finally touching as if 
each syllable...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edifying, language,
Form: Free verse
Death Only Made Our Connection Stronger
My guardian seraph way up high in heaven’s sky,
you have beautiful ivory wings, who taught you to fly?
I considered you my angel while you were...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edifying, angel, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Mother's Day--God's Blessings To All Women--Your Mother and Mine
Your Mother and Mine
Tis Every woman
Whomsoever helps 
Any children.. anytime

Looks after them
Fixes and gives
them something to eat
Cleans them up... 
to smell sweet

helping them to live
and...

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© Star Light  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edifying, caregiving, childhood, daughter, dedication,
Form: I do not know?
The Fantasy Massage
"The Fantasy Massage"
by:  Eric L. Boddie

Before I touch, rub, stroke or kiss it
Please forgive me for staring upon your back
I have never seen one...

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Categories: edifying, beautiful, body, lust, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Literature
‘Tis a wondrous bit of structure,
 Literature is indeed
And from this, an insightful glimpse of culture 
Truly marvelous to read
Lest we negate such writings, these...

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Categories: edifying, poems, , literature,
Form: Ode
Superb Man
He the superb of all time
The man he used to be
A noun I read in dictionary 

The writer's word choice
The level of his formality
Humble and...

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© Amor Otong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: edifying, character, cheer up, hero,
Form: Bio
Premium Member In Love With a Nerd
1. Too fired up
he exaggerates every niggle
and squashes every chance to assuage our boils.
He acts without a lode star
putting everything under weigh
and exhibiting ignorance with...

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Categories: edifying, appreciation, art, beauty, boyfriend,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Dreaming of a Perfect World
A habitation hanging on a pole of love
circled by an orbit
of calm and tenderness.
Unto its walls;
purity and goodwill stick.

Floats on water and edged by the...

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Categories: edifying, desire, dream, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Imagism

Book: Shattered Sighs