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Best Fleeted Poems

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Premium Member That was Then, this is Now
Once, 
I saw rainbows, 
across the tear washed sky. 
Their iridescent gleam
illumining the astral realm 
and spilling down into the waters below. 
Buds burgeoning on...

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Categories: fleeted, angst, depression, loss, senses,
Form: Free verse



Walking Seven Steps Together
(Walking Seven Steps)

Catching the last shot of the sunset sky
Even more rustier than before
Delayed my departure.
I asked my friends to go ahead 
And I would...

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Categories: fleeted, autumn, dark, friendship, moon,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Alabama Twister April 27, 2011
Black clouds bury the blue skies of Bama overhead
as monstrous winds wipe out towns of southern plain.
From historic antebellum it left a path of dead
in...

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Categories: fleeted, angstsweet, home, home, sweet,
Form: Quatrain
Buzzing Mosquitoes At Night
In the still of this young night, here in the dark I lounge alright..
Low down in this executive chair, my legs are parked on the...

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Categories: fleeted, dark, friendship, imagery, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Tepid Soul
Endless is life's array of decadent sweets
Chosen only to partake a portion of treats

Ever aware of the fleeted glances my way
Ashamed by my ecstasy and...

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© Erin S  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleeted, happiness, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme



Flight of Freedom.
Wind to wing does span the heavens, 
Eagles heart to heights abound,
Soar me there with beats of angels,
Born in eyrie's forest found,

Eyes then focus to...

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© Keith Drew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleeted, hope, life, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Then and Now
Once,
I saw rainbows 
Across the tear washed sky,
Their iridescent gleam 
Slanting down on the waters below,
Buds burgeoning on every branch,
Flowers opening their delicate folds,
And summer...

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Categories: fleeted, appreciation, creation, desire, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
But a Whimper
"This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang,...

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Categories: fleeted, beautiful, dark, deep, philosophy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member As I Flew On Waxen Wings
Sudden was the descent of poetry on me
I tottered under its weight
My body heated up like the sun
A frying egg yolk on the pan
My blood...

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Categories: fleeted, allegory, dream, fantasy,
Form: Blank verse
Hollowed Soul
Poor unfortunate soul
Now an empty shell
Hollowed eyes 
Void of life.

Your world has crumbled
Your a mess in rags
Can't see straight
Through the fog of despair.

You see no...

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© Megan Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleeted, dark, death, pain, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fleet Away
Fleet away!

We fleeted the time carelessly
We fleeted the time carelessly 

I had a long wait,
A fretful heart and a dance troupe.
And I sauntered into the...

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Categories: fleeted, best friend, boy, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Unfettered One
Plucked flower once clumsily graced a girls curls,
Now crushed in the wake of her ascending swirls,
Comfort be gone as bees holds dust for another,
Swarms of...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fleeted, adventure, allusion, cheer up,
Form: Pastoral
An Evil Day
Ere some three or four-odd days
Began our nature show some craze.
The people, truly afraid, to say,
Nowhere did find a place to stay.

The initial portension was...

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Categories: fleeted, child,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member At the Corner In Annecy
AT THE CORNER IN ANNECY

You said you saw bullfinches; as that morning came too quickly,
on that cobbled corner in Annecy, where the beautiful remnants of...

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Categories: fleeted, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Window Sill
Damn the window sill
It's never needed
It's filled with arze
most times impeded

And rubbed for dust
in times gone fleeted
For lost time served
in sense depleted...

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Categories: fleeted, analogy, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Quatrain

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