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Best Encounter Poems

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Premium Member Close Encounter
I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and in the sky noticed a star
Could be...

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Categories: encounter, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and...

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Categories: encounter, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Secrets of Mornings
Each day dawns laden with secrets.

The morning dews are crystal balls, 
each holding a secret trailer of 
a fragment of day.    

The...

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Categories: encounter, future, happiness, life, morning,
Form: Free verse
A Lullabyto the Lost
Life and cigarettes burn to fast.
We waste are time.
So within the moment you bask.

A pretty face has to age.
Every story meets  it's final page.
When...

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Categories: encounter, angst, life, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Huffle-Wink's Nearby
You've no doubt heard of fire-breathing dragons,
and their obsession with hoarding treasure.
But have you ever heard of Huffle-Winks,
magical creatures that promote pleasure.

Invisible, atop fast dragonflies,
they...

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Categories: encounter, 8th grade, cute, fairy,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: encounter, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Of Road Rage and the Poetrysoup Profanity Policy
As Joe was biking down the side of the road
He ran across a chap with a dearth of driving skills.  
Or more accurately, the...

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Categories: encounter, anger, conflict, culture, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Loneliness of a Lost Cloud
God named me a straying cloud,
and by His perpetual wish I abide...
as the loneliest cloud floating on the earth's breeze.
I glance below and discover the...

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Categories: encounter, friendship, happiness, imagination, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member There Was a Heart, As Large As Ocean Skies
There Was A Heart, As Large As Ocean Skies


Moonstruck magic, from her large bright blue eyes
There was a heart, as large as ocean skies
And I...

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Categories: encounter, art, desire, love, ocean,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member You Foolishly Once Thought You Had It Bad: a Collaboration
When tons of doom filled nights fall on your head,
hot embers glow and fires burn unabated,
you recall her last breath and wish you were dead.
In...

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Categories: encounter, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stoicism is the Key
In silence, when darkness 
envelopes the sky,
unlock the glass windows 
of your mind, 
forgive the stars
that veiled their silver,
for it is in times of 
confusion...

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Categories: encounter, feelings, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quick Encounters
Some people are just uncomfortable
She is putting on a smile
under her mask
I don’t know if it’s her
or it’s me
She’s nice, a little hurried
Even her son’s...

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Categories: encounter, people,
Form: Free verse
Music
MUSIC

The rythme progresses through me
Reaching to depths unknown
Leading me to another realm
Only I have ever gone

A place of solitude
Where I can be free
For my soul...

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Categories: encounter, inspirational, music, me, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer of Enchantment
Warm evenings have that lazy feel,
As the sun sets upon the day.
An orange ball suspended,
As all cares now swept away.
The exotic smells in the perfumed...

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Categories: encounter, love, spoken word,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Lady In Red
Yesterdays love
Buries me in memories
I long for times
When a kiss was truly an exotic marvel
I hug the sorrows of treasured losses
I, a man weep, silently...

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Categories: encounter, beauty, heart, life, love,
Form: Light Verse

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