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Best Flambeau Poems


Premium Member My Rubber Rain Boots
...Saturday Morning’s routines

The odor of wood smoke
Came into my bedroom 
I saw the flambeau flickering lights
From my window

That when I knew it was time  
To get out of bed;
I heard old man Sealy ......

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Categories: flambeau, baby, caregiving, childhood, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member End Of August
...August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.
The odd uneven time—Sylvia Plath




End Of August
             
The end of August is oh so near                  ......

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flambeau, anxiety, art, august, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Candle
...
Candle 
Spark in the dark 
burns clear, melts fear, brings cheer 
ready to die spreading the Light 
Flambeau 


Cinquain (Traditional)
04.01.17
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Categories: flambeau, giving, light, night,
Form: Cinquain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Fire Operatie
...

FIRE OPERATIE.      (operatie is Dutch word for operation in English)


F ine matter in combustion with oxygen too luculent,
I ncandescent fire's poise flares up its ligament.
R ......

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Categories: flambeau, feelings, fire, fish, imagery,
Form: Sonnet
Lets Have Fun
...Lets Have Fun

Oh how we enjoy a festival,
It is a time to celebrate, and it’s annual,
Oft at this time we are boastful,
It’s a special time to time to dazzle!
There’s no better time than at ha......

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Categories: flambeau, funnyday, time, day, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mardi Gras in New Orleans
...It's Mardi Gras time down in New Orleans ~  it's a carnival of memes

Where the people sing and play ~ there's music in the streets, both night and day

Everybody's having fun and drinking wine ~......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flambeau, celebration,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Birth To Infinity
...Germ of essence. 
Human blob. 
Shattered eggshell to the chicklet hatched.
Interlocking  family of a  kingdom.
Beget or begone? Antigone! 
Pouch bearing mammal  with no issue for her milk a plen......

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Categories: flambeau, art, beautiful, beauty, birth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Banana Flambeau
...Banana Flambeau,
is very fine fare.
It isn't well known,
that's why it's so rare.
They lit it on fire,
and singed Nana's hair,
The damn place went wild.
gave us a scare.
Old Nana's alright,
......

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Categories: flambeau, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Hang In There
...Has life got you sitting in a chair playing solitaire? Thinking, if only I could get there? Yet you're completely unaware and so tired of listening to ridiculously hot air? If you feel life's just no......

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Categories: flambeau, adventure, beauty, change, engagement,
Form:
The Determined Traveler
...(Dedicated to KEVIN SKINNER, TURF (the Human Knot) 
and to all other individuals who don't have the means 
but have the will) 

I am not a horseman, I am not a sailor; 
I don't have a penny, I often ......

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Categories: flambeau, adventure, courage, dream, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Cyhydedd Fer Sonnet
...Each line is composed of two Anapaest metres and a final Spondee metre.

Come to me and put thine sweet eyes
on this note that thus came, e’en tries
to put slander within my mind
of the old and ......

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Categories: flambeau, anger,
Form: Sonnet
30 Shades of May
...Thirty Shades of May

Did my stimulus show up today?
Do these masks really have to stay?
What the hell happened, we say
Can toilet paper be added as mainstay?
When can our children go and play?......

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Categories: flambeau, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme
New Words To Old Nursery Rhymes
...Little Miss Muffet
" Fair damsel loitered, arachnoid annoyed her."
Jack Be Nimble
" Avoid yon flambeau with agile gambol."
Mary Had A Little Lamb
" Pet with positive valence kept mistress under
......

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Categories: flambeau, humor,
Form:
The Mechanic Writes a Love Poem
...You got my heart beating at scouring velocity I bet 
The colors of your paint job would be Flambeau and desert sunset 

You got more juice than a Holley 650 double pump carburetor
As kind and coo......

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Categories: flambeau, analogy, love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Flight - All Spondees
...'Plane, take me by coach sky high - reach cold space.
Race Sol's bright light beams westbound - beat night's shade.
Make brain's mind glow like flambeau shines my face,
fly me high so I might know......

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Categories: flambeau, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things