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Best Grates On Poems

Below are the all-time best Grates On poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of grates on poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sonnet Celebrating International Women's Day
With threads of golden light, your spirits flare,
Each woman shines, a steadfast astral pyre,
Your valiant souls defy the tethered snare,
Like distant suns that pierce the...

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Categories: grates on, celebration, freedom, grandmother, mother,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Hurricane Eileen - the Storm
A dedication to Eileen Ghali
for her prolific production of
inspiring work

Willow Tree = Keyboard
And that’s your only clue

Hurricane Eileen - The Storm

As darkness drew nearer
Light falling...

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Categories: grates on, dedication,
Form: I do not know?
Grey Wind
**Dedicated to those who preceded us and gave their blood, sweat and tears, so we can have the luxuries they could not**


The wind whispers, the...

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Categories: grates on, father, grandparents, mother, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wild Is the Wind
Furious wind from the north hisses louder,
banging against the gaped mouth of  a sky, drenched…
 Haggard, the night wheezes with quack
 of birds waylaid;...

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Categories: grates on, howl, sound, wind,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forsaken On This Day
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air 
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:...

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Categories: grates on, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Despicable
Pigtails loosen yet messed, 
twisted by pliant fingertips
of evening’s devilry…  
tracing her budding breasts,
embers gleam from a lamplight, dim…
his jerked breathing quickens to rake...

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Categories: grates on, abuse, evil, girl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In the Cold
When pebbles knead the holes in my shoes
These torn eyes writhe from  my orphan blues,
A lost soul quivering in the cold...
I feel alone, a...

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Categories: grates on, absence, child, home,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Aborted Vow
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a tangle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust, quivering
unto fissure of grass where my heart scrapes,
as if the air denies unanswered questions
so...

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Categories: grates on, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heaven
Subtle, tingling, blissful caress
Wholeness of being, free from stress
Essence of presence celebrates 
Each node within, Cupid’s address

Magnetic heat, pheromones grates
To music of spheres, soul gyrates
Bliss...

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Categories: grates on, heaven, joy, love, wisdom,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Murdered By My Own Shadow
Cold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll...

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Categories: grates on, dark, fantasy, murder, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing 
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here...

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Categories: grates on, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dream Sweeper
I’m freedom’s beckoning call light as air, an elemental being
Set adrift beyond the universal light beam, a speeding
Bullet shifting, suspended by my own spiritual uplifts
Bending...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grates on, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Wings Unsheathed
Resurrections lone fallen spiritual being, kneeling within the darkness of mine
Own tormented soul, broken, fractured at fetters ivory appendages, a flightless
Angelic Dark winged angel standing...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grates on, angel, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member String-Movements
When evening’s bass tone whips a refrain
Strummed by an old man  in our country yard; 
A most haunting string--movement  dims the air
Reminiscent of...

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Categories: grates on, music, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Moments of Life.
The morning mists falling from Snapdragon eyes
Standing on high peaks viewing the verve of diversity
Starlit nights viewing the galactic milieu painted above
The promise once made...

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Categories: grates on, imagination, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs