Best Enviable Poems
Clouds and Candy Raindrops...as a child,
I perceived
the wonderment
of Clouds.
and elders
likewise contemplated
the curious celebrity of them
the solemnity of shape-shifting skyships
their charity of rain:
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Categories:
enviable, appreciation, growing up, hope,
Form:
Light Verse
Thirst For Love...My thirst for undying love I wished to quench
Drinking from the source of your enviable lips
Few droplets of nectar my soul was able to sip
That ample were though my craving to eclipse!
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Categories:
enviable, kiss, love, romance,
Form:
Epigram
Ugly Is Beautiful...The hideous wrinkles and folds
unmistakingly reveal the damage
that the harsh years had wrought,
all the battles waged and fought,
won and lost.
I look at her now sunken face,
beaten and b......
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Categories:
enviable, life, timebeauty, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Your Face Could Launch a Thousand Ships...Just like Helen of Troy
your face could launch
a thousand ships.
Your preternatural beauty,
a......
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Categories:
enviable, appreciation, beauty, woman,
Form:
Free verse
On the Back of September's Wings...Autumn waits on the back of September’s wings /
transforms her green to enviable hues /
the castanets of crickets like shamans sing,
chant to the moon ~ their hallowed muse.
Original date: Se......
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Categories:
enviable, nature, september,
Form:
Quatrain
Labyrinthia...Her full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said ......
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Categories:
enviable, beauty, character,
Form:
Prose Poetry
While the Sun Is Our Friend...Even the most luminous petal
of the enviable rose
will share its magnificence
for such a short time
As such, we must appreciate
each moment of its glory
for even from......
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Categories:
enviable, beauty, growth, life, self,
Form:
Free verse
Let Go...Let Go
The last tiny leaf...
waits at the end of the branch.
Below,
there are several feet to fall,
and then there is a river;
the Green.
The cold of winter has long set in,
and the ......
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Categories:
enviable, addiction, appreciation, grief, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
61 and Done...When you’re born into this world of ours.
You have no idea if you’ll reach its ivory towers.
If you’re lucky to be born into a house of wealth.
Chances are, you’ll go far, have money for yourself.
A......
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Categories:
enviable, life, money, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
International Family Day...A house without an inch of warmth
A house without a ray of sun
A house without a shrill laugh
A house where nobody voices out a pun
Such a house can never be a home!
Home Sweet Home, There is no pla......
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Categories:
enviable, family, house, house,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The Two Women In My Life Who Are Big, Beautiful Reds...1.
Kathleen
Firehaired love of my life;
She's almost all Cab, with a dash of Shiraz spice.
A deep and complicated, earthy wife
A ru......
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Categories:
enviable, funny, happiness, life, may,
Form:
Rhyme
Luneta...On this landmark an image stands...
statue of a man.
Man of honor and talent,
admiration of any man.
Born with great love for country
Died with one heart of chivalry.
Studied in different......
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Categories:
enviable, hero, memorial, memory,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
Gothic Grace -...She had a gothic heart,
predictability and tamming tranquility were her counterparts,
she felt pain as gain,
peace was nettlesome and purposeless,
an abomination that careless civilization is undese......
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Categories:
enviable, passion, woman,
Form:
Ode
The Icon of Heroes- Maharana Pratap...His name is evoked with boundless esteem
By the strata of generations down the ages
The prodigious son of our holy motherland
Who embodied valour and chivalry to the hilt.
He could have lead a......
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Categories:
enviable, history, horse, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan...Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)......
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Categories:
enviable, america, art, creation, culture,
Form:
Free verse