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Best Enigmatic Poems

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Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: enigmatic, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad



Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: enigmatic, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: enigmatic, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When a Poet Falls In Love
If you fall in love with a poet, 
he will love you with all his soul.
His ink will be his sword of affection,
his pen your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, love, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: enigmatic, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Phases
the night as black as a newly broken heart

      increasingly 
         the...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, lost love, moon, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fondant Gates
The distance between us means nothing~
      l've f a l l e n in love with you, despite the moon...

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Categories: enigmatic, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freudian Slip
A poet's soul lay in slumber,
his pen a distasteful adversary. 

A suffering soul lost in yesterday,
stumbled upon his somnolent path.
Enchanted eyes felt her nakedness 
through...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, angst, deep, depression, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
The Portrait
He cloaked her skin 

with a dark silk gown 

made of tattered wings 

neath the hunter' skies 

He covered her hair 

with a mourning veil...

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Categories: enigmatic, hero, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Magic of Colors
NB:  This is a repost, originally deleted.


The vermillion sunset has long dissipated 
Over the marine  persimmon horizon afar.
In the deep subterranean silence of...

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Categories: enigmatic, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
"Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, 
hindi makakarating sa paroroonan".
(A person who does not remember where he came from 
will never reach his destination).
Filipino proverb.

Gift me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This gifted madness you call poetry
You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all....

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enigmatic, appreciation, perspective, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shh, I'Ll Make It Go Away
I remember so clearly a day
                   when...

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Categories: enigmatic, childhood, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: enigmatic, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative

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