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Best Eluding Poems

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Premium Member Ramblers
’Tween hither and thither we wended our way
skipping, dancing through sand dunes, in seascape croquet.
While woven in waves watching dolphins at play
I first tasted her...

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Categories: eluding, fantasy, love,
Form: Quatrain



Just Come Closer
Come closer, just a little closer
break down the barriers and rise 
over the blindness where one can see
your bits of beauty silently eluding me

Shade the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eluding, courage, love,
Form: Free verse
Shaken To the Core
Her sad eyes and tear stained face evoked such ambivalent feelings;
I could barely stand to look upon the half-naked child in front of me. 
She...

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Categories: eluding, allegory, dark, dream, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Recollection
I met a Hippie walking down the street.
She had long hair, big eyes.
Wide-bottomed trousers, orange-red,
Covered in an intricate pattern
Of strange designs, flapped round her feet
And...

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Categories: eluding, peace, together, youth,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Dreams
Outside my window,
the leaves are in a frenzy~
twirling, shaking and flying about 
the wind just sending them off
in a scattered dance...
so similar to the
thoughts
chaotic in...

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Categories: eluding, life,
Form: Free verse



Leaking Pen
Opening 
Fourth street and the divide meet 
Near the stream where it's waters Impede 
Five metres walk from the wooden bridge 
A little further away...

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© Kofi Amed   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eluding, fate, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Neon and Romance.
Sodden dripped of midnight words
A slurred plight 
Perhaps of tonight
Broken in the sobering dawn
In this smoky staleness
We meet in false courage
Eluding the touch 
The tenderness...

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Categories: eluding, angst, life, love, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Deluge Comes
Almost all of us will face -at one time or another -

Dire circumstances dragging us into a deluge of misery.
Eluding woe is not an easy...

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Categories: eluding, grief, life,
Form: Acrostic
Elusive Love
Why can't it be found 
Love! Stop eluding me.

Love is giving, caring, kind, patient, selfless...but why is it so elusive? 
Am I  not giving...

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Categories: eluding, love, love hurts,
Form: Ballad
New Sensations Harbor Ill Will Toward the Mind
New ambient light taking hold of that which was once darkened by time.
New thoughts eluding desires and all answers to the questions at hand.
Laminated emotions...

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Categories: eluding, confusion, love, passion, sad,
Form: Free verse
Crazy Mirror
CRAZY MIRROR






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Categories: eluding, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Payphone's Out of Order
This booth i'm in , you call a body
apparent problems , wiring shoddy

can't get thru all the busy signals
rush of the race , eluding victuals

can't...

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Categories: eluding, life, loss, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vashon Memories
Vashon Memories

A song to sing itself –
A birthing voice,
Shouting then whispering
Of fields and quiet harbors
Of blackberries and sunlight on smooth waters,
Of boredom, rest and restlessness
	In...

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Categories: eluding, beach, summer, tree, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Queens Conjurer
All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright

The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art...

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Categories: eluding, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Temperance Tarot
     "Temperance Tarot"



in the mystical ream of tarot card prediction
painted canvas figurines proclaim Future depiction
a magical illusion holding phenomenal accuracy
revealing journeys...

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Categories: eluding, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs