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Best Embalmed Poems

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Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: embalmed, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Musings On Faith
What if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice 
with no ego; 
synchronized in 
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth, 
and evil...

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Categories: embalmed, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment
Her persona is like 
a portrait 
   of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in 
  bittersweet lavender, 
unseen within depths 
of tributaries of elixir.
If only...

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Categories: embalmed, dark, deep, devotion, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celestial Choreography
As the glistening jewels 
         of snow cascade like 
ballerinas pirouetting 
     ...

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Categories: embalmed, i love you, imagery,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Journal
“It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”
David Levithan

I will forever be...

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Categories: embalmed, angst, emotions, heartbreak, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Au Revoir - Goodbye -
- 2016 -

- JANUARY -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen...

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Categories: embalmed, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pyramids of Love
I remember Cleopatra's moon,
as triangles of time 
unveiled pyramids embalmed in
juniper, incensing golden dreams.

While in desolate dunes 
of the sunrise Sahara,
I've engraved your initials 
with...

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Categories: embalmed, deep,
Form: Verse
Blue Tears On Parchment
Light blue tears on parchment, how softly my pen 
weeps for you. Ribbons of verse bind, pull tightly 
on oozing emotions. Devoted words lie embalmed...

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Categories: embalmed, devotionwords,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Little House of Memories
It was a lovely little house.

Built of white painted timber,

with a gabled roof clad in green tin,

it had never been a rich person's house.

It was...

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Categories: embalmed, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Headed For the Gristmill
Yesterday’s sweet corn
     now rests among the shucked,
          where norms’ victims lay.

Side-by-side...

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Categories: embalmed, angst, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Alone On a High Ridge
My spirit flew away to far off lands,
travelling over hills and vales, 
o'er seas and deserts dry,
until it arrived high 
on a cold chain of...

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Categories: embalmed, love,
Form: Free verse
Fragrance Of Forgiveness

As the apologetic sun
melts in hibiscus vase
of pastel-peach 
horizons and peels off
those pristine pigments 
of egoistic elegance, 
sailing upon 
aquamarine foam
of vanilla waves ~
where dignity
unveils...

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Categories: embalmed, angst, anxiety, deep, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pardon My Lame Humor
Dear 2024,

I hope this poetic vow 
wouldn’t be shunned,
as I block negativity 
from my phone, 
like my bitter exes.

And forgive my sense
of humor that 
resembles...

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Categories: embalmed, future, giggle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - October -
The life light shimmers in the air
Love and delights

Death and pain
Drowsy in numbness

The leaves have never known
Embalmed darkness with grief

Cold winter is coming soon
Silver bells...

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Categories: embalmed, beauty, nature, october,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Flowering Beauty Grows Amongst Thorns
Rose petals blossoming out from the heart softly silk 
starbursts brightly sitting a regal flower kissed 

By loving sunshine sweet glowing beauty dances 
your delicate...

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Categories: embalmed, beautiful, beauty, flower, love,
Form: Alexandrine

Book: Reflection on the Important Things