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Best Exchanges Poems

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Whispered Exchanges
It took time for the soldier to realize,

that no one was truly self-sufficient,

after the raids and the bombings, hunger materialized,

and life seemed insufficient,

the villagers took...

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Categories: exchanges, warsoldier,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Before and Beyond the Bed
When 
When did a bed become your prison
I see your strength absorbed
Absorbed by the mattress 
I turn you
Trying to prevent sores
Who would have thought soft...

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Categories: exchanges, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Filling Up On Empty
Some things that look fulfilling
Can cast a woeful spell
Glittery that looks like heaven,
can often turn out to be hell.

All the wanting leads to weeping,
He can't...

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Categories: exchanges, desire, heart,
Form: Quatrain
My Tree
MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing...

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Categories: exchanges, nature, tree,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gary's Yard Sale, the Story
Gary's Yard Sale, the story
                    ...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exchanges, nostalgia, people, timeage, age,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Early Morning Walk On the Beach
I awoke  after hearing a noise on the roof of the cottage, it sounded like a couple of seagulls, probably fighting over a piece...

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Categories: exchanges, beach, holiday, ocean, stars,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is
Poetry is white lights falling upon rainbows and snow
Casual exchanges blinked upon a shared pillow
Lip prints etched inside an antiquated photograph
The obligatory holding of hands...

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Categories: exchanges, art, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If Only I Could
Maxims for eyes, a cast of racing clouds, and a sky
What else could be wrapped in lexical display?
Climate crises, inflation, and dire behest worry me
Pale-blue...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exchanges, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Sits On The Outer Looking In

She sits on the outer looking in
As the party is in full swing
Another family gathering
With all the happiness and laughter it brings

Her family….children and grandchildren
Her...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exchanges, age, change, family, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: exchanges, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Circle of Affinity
Images  grace the page like velvet over skin,
caressing the senses fine as red wine…
And we all take a sip of poetic lines,
connecting people from...

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Categories: exchanges, community, devotion, friendship,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Sonnet To Mom
Mom, I only talk with you by cell phone.
Our voices through the miles of air waves go.
You moved to an apartment. On your own,
you manage,...

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Categories: exchanges, mother daughter, youth,
Form: Sonnet
The Heat of Passionate Spirits
In her eyes from across the room

our glances make a spark,

the magic in our eyes, unmistakable.

Upon a brief exchange of chance, something more leads us...

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Categories: exchanges, passionnight, love, magic, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Way of Peace
The climate of the world is alarming; we are at odds with each other,           ...

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Categories: exchanges, peace,
Form: Narrative
Pen Meet Paper
What in the ink whorl is papièr churl going on?

Ill quill vapors are trying to victimize me,
vex prose don’t belong
Word saber player haters trying to...

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Categories: exchanges, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, slam,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things