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Best Grievous Poems

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Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: grievous, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Dewdrops
You hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...

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Categories: grievous, emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pricked By Love's Thorn
My nights have no rhythmic shadows on the wall
Our candle flame silhouettes no longer rise and fall
Our love cooled like dying embers without a spark
Filled...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grievous, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated Part Three, the Conclusion
Achilles, Bloody Battles, Death's Black Hand As Was Fated
Part Three, (the Conclusion)

Dawn, bright rays fell upon Achilles and his band
exiting ship, Greek sandals felt soft...

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Categories: grievous, art, character, dedication, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: grievous, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Privileged is the right of ingress, bearing your beloved name, 
To chambers of your heart, where burns a sacred flame,
Of inner sanctum divine, in sanctity...

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Categories: grievous, deep, peace, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Betrayed Expectations
I flew to Olympus, to find its heart,	
armour intact against Hades’ dark wrath.	
At birth the power of light made its start	  
as Homer's ghost...

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Categories: grievous, mythology,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Elegant Dance
Rhythmic pose arcs lifting elegant ambience
Graceful dance enshrines artful renascence
Visceral posture invites emotional response
Festive celebration of aesthetic renaissance.

Attired in red and blue of simple elegance...

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Categories: grievous, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poem For My Sun
To my Sun, l've become
silent to the screeching 
screams from sirens, 
hiding beneath sapphire seas.
I'm floating like tepid
ripples in wandering waves, 
serenading in songs 
from...

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Categories: grievous, innocence, poems, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Youth, Time, Night Sky and Heaven's Blessed Voice, Second Poets Tribute Series, Vladimir Nabokov
Youth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice

As I lay me down in lush verdant grass
Gazing into night sky as Heavens pass
Twinkling stars, to an...

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Categories: grievous, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Downfall of King Solomon
Great King Solomon, wisest of the rulers of Israel,
The favored son of King David, who was beloved of our God,
Did fall from grace in his...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grievous, political, power,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Within Shattered Heart, Remained a Fire Still Lit
Within Shattered Heart, Remained A Fire Still Lit

Beset by grievous sorrows, his past full of sins
facing darkest evil truth, not mind's wishful spins,
what else could...

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Categories: grievous, dark, death, deep, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Writer In Me Wants You To Know
I sense and feel mystique of its appeal
In vibrant, verdant, blossoming spring,
Splendorous prairies undulating breeze,
Resplendent falling of autumnal leaves,
Glacial winds bemoaning a frozen sigh,
A cerulean...

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Categories: grievous, art, muse, poetry, words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tinderbox
Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world aghast in grip...

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Categories: grievous, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Have You Forgotten Me

It's been years since we walked away from each other.
Long ago, I stopped looking back because I was afraid
that I'll not see your footprints following...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grievous, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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