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Best Frivolous Poems

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Premium Member Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead

Eyes sadly deprived...

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Categories: frivolous, fate, first love, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Amid the Jagged Shadows -
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

               Samuel...

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Categories: frivolous, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Life
The heartaches of living are many
The comforts of living are few;
The truths we are told are not many
And the lies we were told have come...

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Categories: frivolous, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle
The menace of war in the chaos of life
The peril of ocean when tempests are rife;
The danger of jungle where feral beasts hide
The terror that...

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Categories: frivolous, love, woman, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Veil I Wear
A fire blazes behind the veil 
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This veil I wear
is not made of cloth
for no fabric could withstand
the incendiary passion
I command

It's self-imposed
not forced
no man's hand
would...

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Categories: frivolous, analogy, identity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Butterflies
They flutter and hover
And float on the breeze.
They shiver and shimmer
And weaken the knees.
Fickle and fragile,
They tickle and tease.
Fleeting and flimsy,
Deceptively free.  

These frivolous...

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Categories: frivolous, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desert Dreaming
A violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...

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Categories: frivolous, anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form: Free verse
The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: frivolous, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: frivolous, love,
Form: Free verse
What We Had Was Only a Tale
Here’s to a love that never existed!
And to the departing you insisted,
Let me give in to all I’ve resisted
It is true through our frivolous trail
Our...

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Categories: frivolous, confusion, depression, family, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Latent Desires
A world of illusions procreates
blinking sustained delusions
existence shivering in probabilities
memories afloat in traces astray
If only I were a meteor 
I'd cross those barriers
to merge their...

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Categories: frivolous, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadowland
 Shadowland 

Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate 
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A...

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Categories: frivolous, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Preserved Melody
On a smoky grey October dusk
ensnared by a timeless musk
my heart met those dulcet tides
mellows engulfing it in strides.

A frivolous soul I'd always been
a quarter...

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Categories: frivolous, analogy, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Murder Most Foul
I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
         ...

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Categories: frivolous, autumn, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member An Unpaid Debt
With less tomorrows than I've yesterdays
In looking back I have but one regret
Before that last tomorrow fades away
I wish that I could pay an unpaid...

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Categories: frivolous, appreciation, forgiveness, love hurts,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things