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Best Embankments Poems

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The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: embankments, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



You'Ll Find Me
Mountain melt trickles a pure innocence
ever closer to her fluent destiny
with each lingering kiss from the sun
Wooded embankments overflow 
the ancient river starts to grow
and...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: embankments, flower, for her, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Sunny Beach
The hectic world is like a giant ocean.
Every day we wake up and dive in.
We dive into our work, activities, or 
errands we must do...

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Categories: embankments, anti bullying, , sweet
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tall Tale
I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with...

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Categories: embankments, fantasy, fishing,
Form: Prose
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims...

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Categories: embankments, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme



Sprinkle More Lies
Sprinkle More Lies

Sweet little lies we bank upon when the heart goes weak
And insecurities bar ears from wanting to hear truths
Yet beautiful in themselves, bringing...

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Categories: embankments, baby, childhood, confidence, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Enlargment
I have poured out my heart      like water
But only those understanding      will see
I have laid...

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Categories: embankments, bible, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form: Verse
The Flower Within
Hear not the silence in the new fallen snow
embankments high of drifted wonder hide
all that winter buries underneath its surface
and cocoons itself in an invisible...

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© Dl Mullan   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: embankments, flower, spring, winter,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member January Is a Well-Learned Trickster
January is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, 
Fooling us yearly. 
Appearing overnight, as we dream of warmer things.
Covers the earth with her glistening...

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Categories: embankments, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Berwick - On - Tweed Market
BERWICK – ON – TWEED    MARKET



Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the  ancient...

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Categories: embankments, places
Form: Free verse
Scarred Soil
... road slowly knifes through

    embankments of reddish earth

    scarred soil of my birth ......

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Categories: embankments, life, nature, places,
Form: Haiku
Scarlett's Yellow Grove
Euphoric growth and gracious space, could no one lay a finger on Scarlett’s place
The daisies breed and seed sunshine as if the heavens hovered and...

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Categories: embankments, imaginationyellow, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Farewell
still my chin is shining with
the remnants of those smiles you
fed me till they flooded the
embankments of my undefended mouth

yet my hair already shows
the moths...

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Categories: embankments, lost love, sad,
Form: Lyric
Eminent Domain
The numerous dirty-white mounds
Of snow that lined the narrow street
Stood like fortified embankments;
Each varying in height and width
Depending on the autos size.
Each space of eminent...

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Categories: embankments, introspection
Form: Verse
The Stirring of His Water
In a pool of clear water.
Look what you can see.
Walking on the bed of the waters shore.
As sure as you can see!

The waters of his...

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© Laudia Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: embankments, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs