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Best Harpy Poems

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Harpy Eagle
Sublime harpy eagle sits in a tree
Beyond divine is his majesty
To abyss not continuity
Is connected his destiny

His surreal yet physical form
Stands like proud warrior before...

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Categories: harpy, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cry For Wind
Fly so fast, cry for wind
Carry me between your wings
Me, me, tiny, olive skinned
Blood of beggars, blood of kings

Lost forever, never found
Roar your cry across...

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Categories: harpy, analogy, animal, beautiful, bird,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: harpy, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wolf - Part 3
...... Part 3 ......

The old wolf creeps, the old wolf leaps
on prey he’s been a’ trackin’ –
a deer adorned with branchin’ horns
is torn by beasts...

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Categories: harpy, nature, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Poet Without Inspiration
The wait seemed eternal to feel inspiration.
Minutes were mountains as each one ticked by,
my hand poised grasping a pen, and then
seated without hitting one stroke...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harpy, poetry,
Form: Narrative



Etruscan Smile
my soul is the shape of a bloodstain
poured there by Nadine Maraschino
my right eye sits
in the ruby voodoo goblet
that she wears upon her head
Nadine was...

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Categories: harpy, humanity, slam,
Form: Free verse
Less Than Zero
With glorious primordial certainty
  the sun will rise, the sun will set;
likewise you languish knowing what you're about,
  you know what is and...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: harpy, life, philosophy, sad, social,
Form: Verse
On the Edge of Darkness
On the Edge of Darkness

Caught in the void’s magnetic grip, jagged
Thoughts hurtling abyss bound, like you I felt,
Hopelessly hanging above that enraged   ...

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Categories: harpy, conflict, self,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Love In Futility
Cherry blossom lips
harpy of my clouded life,
order mocked by hips-
lashed, ocean blue eyes knife

Elegante, my unaware amour
masters the reasons I flee
archaic heroes of tragic lore-
rue...

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Categories: harpy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”




the devil’s advocate
came waltzing 
through my doors

“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away

something 
not 
mine

now 
you're 
doing...

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Categories: harpy, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sprigs and Spirit of Sistine -4
I'm not sure Shem
the Lord said he was sad,
he told me that a long time ago
the angels had done something terrible
that they had compromised their...

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Categories: harpy, creation,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Amy's Blanket Fort
Your castle has a moat
to mark for the unawares
the point of danger,
the change of rule.
My fort has a juice box

Your castle has a drawbridge
to allow...

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Categories: harpy, fear,
Form: Free verse
Dante's Dame
Constantly stalking
the harpy again returns
ugly, shrill and vile...

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Categories: harpy, people,
Form: Senryu
My Juliet-Delilah
Here I stand akimbo and agape
In a state of limbo
Watching a bimbo
The she-devil flimflammed me into flames
Now I speak my love language mambo-jumbo

Here I stand...

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Categories: harpy, sad love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
To Apollo
Fair Apollo, may I borrow your golden lyre
So I might strum a heavenly chord full of fire
Else, let me pluck a laurel from your grove
Towards...

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Categories: harpy, art, creation, motivation, muse,
Form: Rhyme

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