Best Eludes Poems

POTD 19 September 2017

Apprehensively I tramp with my lamp - through a path shrouded in gloom
Silvery shafts of light entwine and fight through foliage as...

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I wrestle with my words in aimlessness when I write.
Poetry is a relationship to me, it's a troubled courtship.
I can't come to reasonable reform in...

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Violet, a lovely lady, kin to Purple, can be a contradiction.
Between her fellows Red and Blue (yet more inclined to Blue),
she lies with a calm...

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Closure eludes my clasp 
Love wilts, somehow lasts
The destination beyond my grasp

The dream decays day by day 
Your light, which never fades
Simply stopped shinning my...

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Like a leaf in the wind
Floating through this realm of time
Whither I go, this knowledge eludes
And 'though I know who bloweth the wind
At times my...

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Hold
onto
lingering
dreams

Mind
Eludes
Memories
Of
Romantic
Interlude's
Eternal
Sweetness

Thoughts
Intertwined
Grapple
Hearts
Temple


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Being here is like being in the womb
Of the woman who carried you in this warm
Safe pool where all your worries were how to
Move your...

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A most unfortunate event
has occurred at our house.
It's embarrassing to admit,
We have a resident mouse.

The elusive little devil
has avoided every trap.
Though set in various places,
we've...

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Into the darkness she envelopes the night
Seeking something special that eludes her eyes
Just as she thought it was lost and out of sight
Her hand catches...

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A welcome sight the lights ahead - like misty globules on ink black foam
The billboard elicits a sense of foreboding - Welcome to the Midnight...

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Surrounded by strange blank faces, 
pianist plays a medley of melancholic melodies,
magnifying our sorrows, as we close our eyes.

Just one more, before I leave,
yet I...

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When rejection eludes understanding,
anxiety places love on trial.
And you start pretending there's still a chance,
extrapolating hope from denial.

A heart haunted by unrequited love,
oft loses its...

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Unreachable Reach
 

The days go by
And you go on,
A lonely migrant on your shore…
The air is clear,
The water, calm,
What is it you are searching for?

The...

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The swordsman who draws his blade
Heart racing at the keening of steel on scabbard 
Tension coiled, poised for the unleashing
Held back by muscles tight with...

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Love forever eludes me perhaps because it flies on angelic wings
And yet my earth bound body is beneath the weight of gravity
Its like following a...

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