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Best Hard To Tell Poems

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Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: hard to tell, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme



Had Hoped To Find
Had Hoped to Find

While searching, seemed so hard to tell,
Which would be our most favorite shell; 
Had to constantly, consistently compare,
As they laid on seashore...

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Categories: hard to tell, beach, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: hard to tell, angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
From a Hospital Bed
FROM A HOSPITAL BED
Wordancer

Even if I’m dizzy with an aching head, 
I must not disturb the others in the beds
In this hospital ward where not...

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Categories: hard to tell, childhood, depression, family, children,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Is More Powerful Than Love
I am seated in a bed-like rock
Under the foothills this is a single block

The Sun rises behind my back
Though I face hills in the west,...

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Categories: hard to tell, feelings, happiness, journey, love,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Halloween Memories
      I was dressed as a witch for Halloween that year long ago,
And with my friends we were going from...

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Categories: hard to tell, childhood, halloween, happy, memory,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tell Me of Love
Think long and hard and tell me-what is love?
I’m thinking of the normal answers, and they appall me!
Tell me love is chocolate, flowers, and sex;make...

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Categories: hard to tell, love,
Form: Free verse
Center Stage
Center Stage

It's hard to know exactly where to start. 
It's even harder not to think too hard or tear yourself apart. 
Life's not supposed to...

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Categories: hard to tell, heart, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Fools Rush In
This is where I come to cry....
I hold my breath, my mouth is dry
with dreadful words too hard to tell

This is where I come to...

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Categories: hard to tell, introspection, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepping Into the Temple
I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...

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Categories: hard to tell, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Everything I've Ever Lost
In a box full of everything I’ve ever lost, 
The first thing I’d rummage for is the patience that could’ve led me 
To your open...

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Categories: hard to tell, extended metaphor, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The River
Before the weary pilgrim, flowed a river fair and wide
The way was filled with danger,  he couldn't cross the other side;
So the pilgrim sought...

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Categories: hard to tell, life, boat, journey, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Brand New Start
The familiar faces that I'll long to see.
                 ...

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Categories: hard to tell, best friend, career, dedication,
Form: Blank verse
America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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Categories: hard to tell, america,
Form: Prose
Hodge Podge
A trickey question came up,
while some friends had a talk.
If a "fly" had no wings,
would you call him a "walk"?

Another thing that puzzled their minds!
If...

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Categories: hard to tell, funny,
Form: Rhyme

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