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Best Gorges Poems


Premium Member Asp of Grief
...ASP OF GRIEF

She buries her head upon this asp of grief —
soft with reptilian fangs, hard with poison.
Her covetous husband lies upon the Nile’s reef.
She holds her abdomen in her a......

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Categories: gorges, beauty, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
...“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And leans back and sig......

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Categories: gorges, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
...The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thri......

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Categories: gorges, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic

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Premium Member Don'T Hate Her
...Don't hate her because she's beautiful 
Or envy that she's hot
She is all about appearances
It consumes her every thought

Try to look a little closer
Past the makeup and the hair
Beauty has little v......

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Categories: gorges, people, social, beautiful, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quest To Breach the Chasm
...We seem separate, sadly so
Culture's children of East and West
A horrid hole lurks humankind
Traipse through time to stand up straight
History's tears tell the true tale
Finding freedom from irk......

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gorges, children, culture, friend, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Bobby Fischer
...Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cyni......

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gorges, death, eulogy, memorial, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Shaped By the River
...Silvery ripples and swirls of viridian currents
Moving through ancient gorges,
	Molding and shaping solid shades of gray granite…
Soft and round, 
Craggy and sharp,
Here and There…

Solid rock......

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Categories: gorges, introspection, natureheart, heart, river,
Form: Free verse
Creating a *****
...On the bank of the James River,
Virginia Colony, 
a proposal was conceived to constrain the African fire.
The ploy, a real achievement in the West-Indian settlements.
In Rome, bodies were paraded......

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Categories: gorges, angst
Form: Lyric
Journey To the Peak
...Little blades of grass touching my naked feet
Oh, the soft pleasant touch, the trodden path
I am treading again; though this is my first
Venture, my maiden hike towards the peak
The great heights......

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Categories: gorges, adventure, heaven, journey,
Form: Romanticism
Mortality
...He is the silly brother of death
is never seen around the cradle
and has never turned up for the
first smoke
first beer
first love

He is waiting for you with jester cap and painted grin
half......

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Categories: gorges, lifebrother, brother,
Form: Free verse
My Friend Has Gone
...My friend has gone
this time, faraway alone
Sadly 
nothing has changed
the moon still dangles on space
waves break with foamy faces
rain drops on green pallet
the robin gorges on strewn millet......

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© Nirode Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gorges, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Most Beautiful Christmas Poem
...Most Beautiful Christmas Poem 11/25/22  Based on the Messianic Prophecies
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Christmas Rose	

The Christmas Rose bursts into bloom
As echoes of midni......

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Categories: gorges, baby, christmas, jesus, rose,
Form: Free verse
The Grace of a Shooting Star
...They asked me to go 
To the hills, oceans, valleys and deep steeps 
To see the beauty of danger 
The mighty of height 
The glory of width 
So that I may sing from the bottom soul 
Or may write ......

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Categories: gorges, blessing, prejudice, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Village On the Water
...Heavily laden boats, rectangular sails billowing 
    Under seas of low cloud, braving the fierce Yangtze;                                                                       
  Held between snow......

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Categories: gorges, appreciation, environment, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Village On the Water Vi
...But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
    His impassioned lusts -- his penchant......

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Categories: gorges, celebration, community, environment,
Form: Free verse

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