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Best Exacting Poems


Premium Member Write You Out
...I think it’s time I write
Write you OUT
Of the coming pages of my life
Oh…you linger
On every page
that's ever been
Keeping the plot a disguise
Unexpected events
My heart's demise
Slowly but......

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Categories: exacting, goodbye, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I am February
...Fierce am I, and fearless
Challenging the shades of winter
Taunting its dreaded demise
Mocking the shadow's prognostication
Tickling the timid hearts
Of somnambulant lovers
Arising to a chillin......

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Categories: exacting, february,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Treasures
...A solitary piece the diamond 
precious rare gem most treasured 
by those lucky enough to hold 
Once in possession, it is rarely out of grasp 
Like the gemstone, the mother 
requires exacting con......

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Categories: exacting, beautiful, beauty, care, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Buildin' Birds
...Buildin’ Birds…

Your hands dart and weave
In, out, up.. then hover
Swoop right… then left

As simply as sight 
Of a birds dreamy flight
Floating to perch proud on rocky cleft

Subtle magic......

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Categories: exacting, animals, art, devotion, family,
Form: Narrative
Fig Tree, New Year's Day
...Our fig in January, entirely denuded now
like my heart in your absence, is but
more beautiful, if possible, in its seasonal
solemnity than in summer's exacting extravagance.
The trunk, grown mass......

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Categories: exacting, naturewinter, winter, new year,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Eve's Rib
...The rib of Eve is fashion's price
A sadistic trap of six-inch heels
Some masochist's torture device

Or for added bust appeal
To wrap the torso so austere
And lift upon bands of steel

The Fr......

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Categories: exacting, beauty, fashion, freedom, women,
Form: Terza Rima



Diana, Nature's Guardian
...Diana, Nature’s Guardian 

Defending purity, virtues, by preordained, destine.
With faithful diligence I oversee all life that’s birthed.
Celebrating nature as its radiant guardian 
Fulfilling l......

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Categories: exacting, natureworld, me,
Form: Quatrain
Broken Glass
...Melodious kaleidoscope
of broken glass,
Its mosaic montage
consumes lost encounters;
a toasting ceremony
for what perished.

Committed specialization
expires unrewarded.
Sand dollars of shor......

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Categories: exacting, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortal Gene
...Irrefutable evolution conduits 
        Matter tip toes through tunnels
        Microscopic nano shifts continue 
        Outperformers filter free of funnel

        Replicas of kept traits hai......

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Categories: exacting, baby, blessing, endurance, graduation,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Song of Defeat
...I hammered some words
Out from the quarry of my brain
They fell around in shards;
Some like boulders, 
Some like rocks and rubble 
I picked them up one by one.
Block on block, I pil......

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Categories: exacting, analogy, angst, heartbreak, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whiskey
...Whiskey


Whiskey made a fool of me
exacting misery’s price
and for its luster and allure
left me always wanting more.
Whiskey took my sins away,
but briefly, they returned each day,
edges s......

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Categories: exacting, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Died a Little Inside
...Taking my place in your gazing blue eyes
Who stole the glow of my dawning sunrise?
As defiling your virtues you obliquely lied,
Pounding my heart till I died a little inside.

When a brilliant s......

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Categories: exacting, betrayal, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aftermath of Flood
...
Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain,
Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign,
Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day,
As tree......

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Categories: exacting, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member September
...September’s serendipitous serenade
Evokes the ebullience of ecstasy 
Provokes a prancing promenade
Tingeing the torrid leaf tips
Exacting an elemental excitements
Monumental majesty
Blue-black ......

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Categories: exacting, september,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Poetry Police
...

The pressure is on, can't let a day go by
Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable
The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door
And exacting severe punishment
Us poet g......

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Categories: exacting, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things