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Best Forswear Poems

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Premium Member Apple and a Rose

I brushed water colors with thoughts of Adam's Eve
and the fallen one who was disguised to deceive
this naked nymph, who strikes a nubile pose
offering a...

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Categories: forswear, destiny,
Form: Rhyme



To Be Blessed
To be blessed 
May the Lord Almighty set me free
To peacefully pace in His island’s lee
When the vice storms in a lusty surge 
And Eden...

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Categories: forswear, devotion, spiritual, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Friends With Benefits
Your friends with benefits are no true friend:
as (au contraire!) your friends when used are a
perverse weed from which you must then defend
against when trust...

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Categories: forswear, best friend, betrayal, desire,
Form: Sonnet
A Kiss From Heaven
Forswear search my eyesight,
A view of beauty beyond the 
twilight,
Lunar enchants us with 
honeydrop flowers,
Gifts of heaven are praised by 
the bees,
Sweetness of the sun...

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Categories: forswear, kiss
Form: Ghazal
The Crime of Love
Shall I suppress the hankering of love,
And behold one’s stifle whispering bare,
Or quench thy besmirch of venom thereof,
Or bedight thy fog, doer of despair?
Before perceiving...

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Categories: forswear, confusion, desire, discrimination, hate,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member A Letter in Forewarning of Melancholy--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: forswear, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Prose
A Sonnet For Jayne
A Sonnet for Jayne

O,'Tis such a rare and beauteous thing 
Amidst the turmoil,who can explain 
That which inspires a man's soul to sing, 
Or to...

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Categories: forswear, beauty, desire, first love,
Form: Sonnet
Do
To take thee as my wife my dear, I do
And kiss thy lips as lovers often do

With love and trust I'll promise not to do...
Forswear...

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Categories: forswear, devotion,
Form: Couplet
Everything I Do, I Do It For You - Shakespeare Style
with all due respect to the Bryan Adams classic, this is my Bardish version:

heed my visage close thou wilt mark 
to me thou meanest all
thy...

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Categories: forswear, longing, love, song,
Form: Free verse
The Dairymaid
Her lovely smile, you should be told,
is like a pint, that’s topped with gold.
Tight curls surround the comely face,
just like a golden carapace.

Her many lovers,...

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Categories: forswear, adventure,
Form: Verse
Ugh, Why Must the Missus Vacuum At the Crack of Dawn
Ugh, Why Must The Missus Vacuum At The Crack Of Dawn?
(circa: early December 27, 2018 morning)

There appears to be a
virulent (possibly deadly) strain
of housekeeping virus
Hoover...

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Categories: forswear, abuse, anger, animal, dad,
Form: Free verse
Executioner's Song
Three walk the path to darkness on this night--
one to embrace, one to observe, and one
Deus ex Machina, a travesty
of the divine; the role is...

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Categories: forswear, philosophy, may,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Fork In the Road of Life
When dark despair and dismalness oppress
how then does joy keep its too, too brief cheer
when life and health forswear bliss no longer dear
and then embrace...

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Categories: forswear, christian, depression, faith, god,
Form: Sonnet
The Sword of Gale
I am the axiomatic master of my fate; the King of Maxim state.
I sit on a throne of axions, maintaining discrete time symmetry to keep...

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Categories: forswear, allegory, change, destiny, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Halloween's Portentous Fate
It was the darkest night of the year, and the light was eclipsed but the haunting moon was so near. Lagging 
hope faded, and the...

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Categories: forswear, fantasynight, light, light, night,
Form: Prose Poetry

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