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Best Encroached Poems

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Premium Member A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto
I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encroached, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member The Zest of a Boy
He toddles toward the pebbles, tumbling the smooth stones over
in his four year old palms, rubbing them like Aladdin’s lamp, tossing
them back into the mix,...

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Categories: encroached, child,
Form: Free verse
Total Eclipse of the Sun
TOTAL   ECLIPSE   OF   THE   SUN    
 

We watched horrified, awe-struck for hours while the...

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Categories: encroached,
Form: Free verse
The Dragon and the Rose
Outside of civil man’s well tended garden,
A field of briars willfully encroached,
Threatening the peaceful flowers without pardon.
Oh these gardeners fought hard as the briars approached.

“You...

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Categories: encroached, love, passion, beauty, flower,
Form: Ballad
Lovers Moon
When blue sky has drawn its veil
That's when passions will prevail
Within the dark of nights closed eyes
Entangled lovers sweat and writhe

A fervent lust. A human...

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Categories: encroached, joy, sky, , sweet
Form: Rhyme



Cancer
Hold back the hour.
Stop the tears from flowing.
Breathe again untainted air.
Take back my bones, my breasts,
and race forward to passion once more

Hold back the hour,
before...

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Categories: encroached, cancer, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where the Antelope (Used To) Play
Where the antelope used to play is now shopping malls and plats.
Man in his insatiable greed has encroached upon its ancient habitats.
Not so very long...

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Categories: encroached, nature
Form: Rhyme
Werewolves
Starving amber eyes that drink oasis scraps 
  Thrown from her cast off demeanour to fall 
Upon the bare heart scape which formats and...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encroached, life, loss, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?
Fulfilment
Eyes glued to the sky
Thumb finger tumbling
Tears cascading from above
Heart filled with grieve and grieve
Encroached of the unknown 
Future punctured with uncertainties
Realities gnashed at me
The...

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Categories: encroached, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member BELLS
Sleep lifted its gossamer veil from my eyes this morn
before dawn's roseate beams of light had been born.
Silence reigned as the world around me still...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encroached, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storm
We cannot tame a raging storm, so with patience, 
we must wait for the calm.          ~...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: encroached, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Survival-of-the-little
Stung with the absence of his father, he excruciatingly rumbled deep inside of his mother’s womb. 
He stormed out already filled with disappointing void. 
The...

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Categories: encroached, hurt,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fireball
a yearning of alabaster guilt given birth
from this mouth of words mesmerising
like rings of Saturn, behold encroached
by your retort, cutting if not comic, life
adjacent to...

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Categories: encroached, emotions, kiss, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Evil Basks
It’s a dimly lit, darkly entombed spot
Here sits a lone black weeping willow tree
Night encroached leaving nothing you can see
Its cold, nothing about this place...

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Categories: encroached, evil, halloween, hate, tree,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member An Evil War
An Evil War

They walk the plains of sun-dried grass,
     together in a row;
the mothers, with their young ones, pass
  ...

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Categories: encroached, evil, war,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs