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Best El Poems

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Premium Member On Solid Ground - El
My feet are on solid ground,
for to the earth I am bound.
Though I hear river flowing
and see the full moon glowing -
a pie in star-studded...

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Categories: el, nature,
Form: Haiku



El Amante
My melancholy turns to gold dust
in your soft and tender hands
upon your fingers I scatter my life
my love remains clasped in your hands
now I am...

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Categories: beautiful, celebration, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: el, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Cantas En Mi Corazon - Sing In My Heart - a Collaboration With Michael P Clarke
Cantas en mi Corazon 
Una Colaboración con Michael P. Clarke

Spanish Version - Free Verse

Ven en mis brazos, tu templo tan cerca de mí,
Estoy perdido en...

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Categories: el, happiness, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ufc
Where modern Gladiators go to collide
Like solders in prison these warriors ride

Mono el mono this is how they believe
No smoking mirrors or tricks up their...

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Categories: el, dedicationtime,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Ballad of Prospector Pete
Prospector Pete had roamed the hills fer years searchin' fer gold!
He and his faithful burro, Fred, were both growin' weary and old.
He'd looked fer color...

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Categories: el, funny,
Form: Ballad
Angela's Right Hand
The function of a human hand?
Writing a message, making a bed,
Opening a jar, dialing a phone,
Putting on pantyhose,
Touching the face of a child,
Or a lover.

And...

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Categories: el, faith, health, loss, peace,
Form: Elegy
Testament
My father's abeng blew up my mother's womb
And I was chained there
Nine months in darkness drinking blood
Longing for my resurrection from the tomb
Longing to break...

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Categories: el, politicalme, history, me,
Form: Free verse
Atacama / English Version
Atacama, Eden of winds,
flower of abandoned rocks and of sapleter,
homestead of flamingoes and geysers,
and above all ,
below an azure sky,
mountains are carrying on their tops...

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Categories: el, historywater, history, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Memory
where we are born is a coin toss
some are lucky some are not
here we live a sheltered life
ignorant of the injustices in other lands
we take...

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Categories: el, abuse, corruption, inspirational, political,
Form: Free verse
Every Season Changes
The asphalt driveway is blackened over by rain 
sand bags lie in the corner of the garage in case water creeps in, some sheep scurry...

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Categories: el, angst, animal, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Judgement
How proud they put them on display
Two thousand of the first of fortyk
There President Bukele did say
They’ll live in the jailhouse for decades
he went on...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped

We...

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Categories: humorous, travel, word play,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Christmas in the Mountains
The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Categories: el, christmas, december, mountains,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Cruisin' the Drag
Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: el, car, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs