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Best Fringe Poems

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Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: fringe, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness my untamed heart? ha! 
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...

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Categories: fringe, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whose Muse Elusive Dew
The worldliness within the sphere     
reflecting morning light, 
as poignant as a single tear 
idea bright is crystal clear 
and frames...

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Categories: fringe, destiny, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Stop Dancing
I am the diamond
     that breathes 
     in your hands;
The fine lace to sway in
     breezes through windows
   ...

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Categories: fringe, beautiful, dance, inspirational, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fringe, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Tangled Vines
I walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned  
for the lure of new...

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Categories: fringe, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ghost That Travels Far
There comes without a warning,
one in hooded mantle grey,
with silent footfall treading. . . 
treading nightfall into day.
An eerie mist - mysterious -
he haunts the...

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Categories: fringe, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Two Brothers Known As Time
One brother, not well-liked by me,
is friends with early light.
Born in a prior century,
he measures day from night.

He comes with neither fangs nor claws,
and yet...

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Categories: fringe, time,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Pine
Among a stand of pines I lived my life,
blissful in the ignorance of my own fate.
Tall and proud, my fellow trees and I
stood along a...

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Categories: fringe, nature,
Form: Free verse
His Scarf
their park, their bench
was serenely quiet
leaves playfully danced
as pigeons quickly took flight.

he caressed the colourful scarf
she had knitted with love and care
he wept tears of...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fringe, husband, introspection, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mourning Doves In Nature
Hear the soft coo-cooing that faithful love imparts, 
                ...

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Categories: fringe, bird, imagery, nature,
Form: Imagism
Devoured
‘Devoured’

For I am the representation of the unknown.

I whence at the thought of human touch and flee at first glance.

I fly away in solitude and...

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Categories: fringe, bird, dark, deep, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost in Love
I search,
Am I a lost cause?
I speak to all, to friends
To enemies.
Where can she be?
My love is nowhere to be found.
I search for her daintiness,
Her...

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Categories: fringe, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Intangible Caress
She was with me, untouchable, intangible, and yet
she caressed me with her breath in an intimate way
on a balmy night in April, I shall never...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fringe, beautiful, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...

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Categories: fringe, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs