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Best Halves Poems

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Two Halves of the Whole
Secret kisses in the dark make endless night seem bright;
Endless kisses from the heart, my mind and soul's delight.

I alone know the gift you bring...

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Categories: halves, lovewords, love, me, sensual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: halves, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member sway of the summer moon -
the summer moon was swollen, blue
    a flaw that girl knew thru-and-thru
      and taking that light's charm...

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Categories: halves, beach, lust, moon, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Agony and Ecstasy
Cascading waves wash ashore
tickling our toes as they ebb and flow;
and moonbeams set a thousand jewels sparkling
on the shoal.

Smiles summon sweet emotions
as we stroll upon...

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Categories: halves, beach, beautiful, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Breed
Sometimes within the walls of today
We simply search for another way

To make this day all it should be
I must learn to live eternally

A blessing given...

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Categories: halves, confusion, introspection, native americanlife,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member What Lies Beneath
Buried here is the weather man J. P. Blithing
Forgot his brolly and got struck by lightning

In this vault is the flat coffin of J.J. Stowler
Fell...

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Categories: halves, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Sequence of Love
"Sequence of Love"


Love possesses many faces
occurring in romantic places
culminated by embraces ...

Love illuminates the soul
intertwining halves to whole
fulfilling a human, earthly role ...

Love radiates rare...

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Categories: halves, love,
Form: Rhyme
Half Mast
Can one count the pieces of a broken heart? 
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be...

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Categories: halves, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Ask Me About My Education
From time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I...

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Categories: halves, angel, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Narrative
The Darkroom
Is it not enough that you’ve hung me beside
myself from your fraying rope - tendered by 

graying wooden clips with rubber fingers?
Must we really soak...

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Categories: halves, introspectionme, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purest Gold
When elements are melted down, it is something to behold
A careful blend, a touch, a spark, can form the purest gold

Mixed to blend by careful...

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Categories: halves, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightened By Anima
I bridged the chasm and entered ambiguous halls
Climbed over barbed fences inside my mind's walls
To glimpse the core of how men and women relate
Among flowering...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: halves, appreciation, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Do It Your Way
If I'm not normal should I conform
and seek to perform as all do
or should I reach to perfect my form
and be how I was born...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: halves, appreciation, character, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Black Oak Tree
A noble Black Oak tree stands tall and tranquil 
Wearing brown, old and dried crumpled leaves
Withstanding all autumn and winter storms
Without any distress or any...

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Categories: halves, april, creation, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member We'Ll Hug and Kiss
Stealing a kiss in front of your friends,
ignites that twinkle within your eyes.
And on seeing your sensual smile,
desire assures passion never dies.

You are of exceptional...

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Categories: halves, desire, feelings, imagery, kiss,
Form: Quatrain

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