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Best Facing Poems

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Premium Member Tranquility
Oh little one, how soon you'll be
In turbulence of puberty.
I will hold tight your days of youth 
And share with you my honest truth 

That...

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Categories: facing, children, god, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: facing, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Green Anniversaries
This is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...

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Categories: facing, cancer, hope, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: facing, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Humanity
If we don’t feel with our hearts, we don’t belong
If we don’t see as one, the world is wrong
Beyond the wars and the hate and...

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Categories: facing, life, peoplechild, lost, child,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Carpe Noctem
Up above the moon shines brightly;
starlight touches earth so lightly;
passions teasing impolitely.
Midnight whispers, “Carpe noctem.”

Blowing soft the summer breezes
through her hair as nighttime pleases,
and the...

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Categories: facing, longing, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunny Horizons - POTD
POTD 20 Dec 2018

Like sand in an hour glass
Time moves so fast
A precious commodity
Not meant to last

Measured in hours
Minutes unfold
Time waits for no man
So I’ve...

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Categories: facing, appreciation, farewell, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silence of Thistle Truth
seasons keep m o v i n g 
 and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n...

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Categories: facing, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: facing, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Happy Solitude, Collaboration With Poet Destroyer A
(This theme coincidentally matched up with another contest I recently
entered, so I revised my sonnet and then PD graciously extended this
idea of a day of...

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Categories: facing, nature, silence,
Form: Sonnet
Meet Me In Naples
We strolled hand in hand
along Naples cobbled streets
beneath nearly blown- off linen sheets
Hanging  from old  balconies.

Street musicians played their bagpipes
ciaramellas,mandarins
In this southern bustling...

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Categories: facing, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: facing, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Life In Eternity
LIFE IN ETERNITY*


1.

The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in 
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent...

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Categories: facing, birth, life, universe,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: facing, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Sun That Parts the Clouds
Through frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds 
needled and re-stitched 
with threads of time and love and hope..

and still — a rosy dream bleeds 
the...

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Categories: facing, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things