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Best Expertly Poems

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Your Words
Your words,
are projectiles
dripping with Arsenic
and aimed at my heart
spitting out darts and swords 
that expertly find their mark
and draw blood

Your words,
when aimed at others
are carried...

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Categories: expertly, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Yearn For Him To Strum My Chords
I am to him a Stradivarius, a treasured violin
His bow expertly caresses my supple strings
My body moans when tucked beneath his chin
Revving to his rhythmic...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expertly, lost love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conscious Uncoupling
Requiem for Henry and Sylvia

The papers arrived today. I gaze out the window of our posh villa and witness yet another spectacular Tuscan sunset. To...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expertly, divorce, memory,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Veil of Evil - Jimmy Savile
Oh, if only ...

If only monsters ...
LOOKED like monsters.
If they lurked ONLY in the dark,
Glowing red eyes and chiseled teeth ...
Claws and horns and forked...

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Categories: expertly, abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Last Dance
Strobe lights loud music
silver glitter balls
reflective tiny stars
dot the dance floor hall.

She was grinding and pumping
body toned tight and fast
she was the centre of attention
her...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expertly, dance, daughter, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 'exploring the Shadows'
as he enters he switches 
off the lights 

particles of light peep 
through the blinds
the air filled with tension 
we haven't been here in this...

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Categories: expertly, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
War Horse
Brumby.

A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day...

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Categories: expertly, horse, world war i,
Form: Ballad
Listening To Music
Music is a big part of our life to sustain
Listening to music takes the whole brain
It can also improve your memory
When someone shouts at you...

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Categories: expertly, books, career, change, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Know You - Collaboration With Chris Green
I see her, ecstatic under thundering skies, red flashed lightning
Long hair static, arms spread wide,
savoured downpour, dance.... exuberant

As if day becomes night, a crimson moon,...

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Categories: expertly, beautiful, dance, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Botched Artwork Saves Town
Botched Artwork Saves Town

Sometime last year, in late August 2015, something unusual went viral..
It was an ancient picture on the wall, vastly unlike its original...

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Categories: expertly, appreciation, beauty, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Photo Bomb
You may think that I am famous
Can't recall my name but
You've seen me hang out with the stars

Believe me I'm right there with ya
I'm in...

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Categories: expertly, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Indian Summer, Here I Come -Fullstop-
Once glorious, but now rusting buildings, lined every dusty road.
Somehow everywhere clung the smell of cow dung.
My heavy bag, a giant rucksack,
Most of it I...

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Categories: expertly, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Do Not Listen
I do not listen because my heart hurts when I hear the sad, and the mean.
And I get way too loud when I hear the...

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Categories: expertly, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mother Nature
She
poses
exposes
exquisitely
evocatively
engagingly
expertly
Nature
nude...

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Categories: expertly, beauty, environment, nature,
Form: Ninette
Premium Member Mailman
In my day, the mail carrier was called the Mailman.
However, I don't recall any women choosing the profession.
He came to our house twice a day.
Once...

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Categories: expertly, childhood, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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