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Best Foundations Poems

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In This Place
I am the weed
Nestled
In a crack in the pavement
Dismantling concrete
Crumbling foundations
In this man made world
Rooted in the earth
Despite the city
I am the seed




11/05/18

Composed for Line...

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Categories: foundations, city, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?

When I can no longer run,
will you...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: foundations, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme



Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Free - POTD - A Collaboration With Silent One
Last POTD for the year - 31st Dec 2017

An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending...

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Categories: foundations, analogy, freedom, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique
The Amorous Mystique

Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of...

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Categories: foundations, art, beautiful, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Free - the Video - a Collab With the Silent One
An eagle spirit conquers storms of adversity,
like a silent soul floats amongst the sky's artistry.
Soaring higher, ascending further from perception,
Free from judgemental realities of deception.

Through...

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Categories: foundations, analogy, freedom, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Chasm In Soup Creek
All heads are bowed in Soup Creek today
The town’s elder statesman has passed on his way
A gentleman true whose tongue wasn’t forked
To whom people listened...

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Categories: foundations, appreciation, remember, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doomed To Feel That Bite and Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...

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Categories: foundations, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden of a Wounded Soul
Like an ebony rose in a province 
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.

You were never just another...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal Epiphany
When rainstorm shadows
cast raven woven blankets,
entangling between 
the boundaries of 
fantasy and reality's reach,
we search for soft glows
from serenades of slumber,
where we embrace
the quilt of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wall
Winnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain, 
while she washed away her bloody pain.

Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: foundations, birthday, character, child, child
Form: Rhyme
If Not
If not passion then desire, that fills 
this heart with fire. At last this heart
has found that hallowed ground at
your side, that place of dreams....

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Categories: foundations, lovelove,
Form: Prose Poetry

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