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Best Forewarning Poems

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Premium Member A Spring Forewarning
Take care, fellow, that you not a cuckold be,
for spring is in the air; the cuckoo sings!
Woo your wife and treat her tenderly.
Flirtatious whims can...

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Categories: forewarning, seasons
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost...

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Categories: forewarning, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Appear My Queen At the Pier
As the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free...

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Categories: forewarning, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member October Fest
Homes so recently abandoned
for Sunday swims and picnics
have become indoor respites
from the restless chill of change.

Secure, still days have vanished,
with hazy meadows humming.
Fireflies have met...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forewarning, autumn, halloween, magic,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member It Was the Word After All
Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in...

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Categories: forewarning, books,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Life of Death
dark she rode stealth into the night
 grasping unsuspecting souls at will

 flagrantly impudent and remorseless 
 decimating dauntless troops
 she showed no clemency

 under...

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Categories: forewarning, angel, death, fate, humanity,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bells
Bells, bells, sound of bells fall now and then in my ears,
Their tone and timbre varying, sometimes singing, 
Sometimes jarring, sometimes rising to a sweet...

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Categories: forewarning, feelings, funeral, Lullaby, sound,
Form: Free verse
Sailors Beware
Brightly shining light

Forewarning of some danger

Guiding sailors home....

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Categories: forewarning, sea, visionary,
Form: Haiku
A Love Poem
To dampen essence is joy unknown.
As a couple, we have united our spirits to 
      manifest our souls fulfilling our...

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Categories: forewarning, boyfriend, bridal shower, deep,
Form: Verse
The Raging Storm
Sleepy eyes awake to crashing sounds on window panes
                ...

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Categories: forewarning, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1843
London’s clock just struck three
A forewarning of events to follow
The gloomy afternoon, an old mans delight
The weather of no concern, working late into the night

The...

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Categories: forewarning, history, london, sorrow,
Form: Light Verse
Mosquitoes Lament
angst, body, cry, hurt, imagery, insect, war,

DODOITSU 

(A MOSQUITO'S LAMENT)

THE SACRIFICIAL LAMB ©  

This sacrificial lamb starts
An aggressive night ensues
Mosquito’s ‘ding’ clarifies
Dinner is almost...

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Categories: forewarning, angst, body, cry, hurt,
Form: Dodoitsu
Memories In a Box
Tucked away and never been seen for half a decade and more, a box that brings to the fore memories galore.
    ...

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Categories: forewarning, absence, death of a
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Ghosts of All Those Lost Tomorrows
"The Ghosts of All Those Lost Tomorrows" 

voiceless Munch seen laughing
when all the ghosts of those lost tomorrows
come stampeding into dreams 
like a forewarning, carrying...

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Categories: forewarning, dark, imagery, muse,
Form: Free verse
Best Man
Ring, ring goes my telephone,
I move to the front door of the house
I rent to own 
I am moving slow,
stoned,
alone, 
I stroll,
miserable!!!

The call came a...

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Categories: forewarning, friendship
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things