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Best Hearkening Poems

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Premium Member The Hearkening
"The Hearkening"



In the woods 
a clearing
bare of all leaves
and trees, with exception one

The ground is 
borderless, 
yet hallowed
dirt and sharp rocks

They call this place,
The Place...

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Categories: hearkening, easter, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse



...."the Wedding At Dreamendon" ~
Dressing the ancient stars amid their anthem weddings attire....

The universe anxiously anticipating these adorned galaxies of, anew ~

Bookplate bridesmaids, with such glittering eyes and broadening...

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Categories: hearkening, faith, happiness, holiday, love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Passing Storms
Children playing, picking flowers
on this April afternoon
up and down the grassy hillside
shadows will be fading soon

As the sudden storm approaches
all of nature darkening
the children dashing...

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Categories: hearkening, adventure, childhood, imagination, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member From Sunset To Sunrise
FROM SUNSET TO SUNRISE

Her clinging mermaid-figure, auburn hair - french braid-chaste.
Pearl’s arms circumnavigate his nautical-neck. Strong arms gird her waist.
His hands, like the current, draw...

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Categories: hearkening, love,
Form: Rhyme
Temptation Salvation
A. W. Nutter

Constant battles raging within
Masters fighting for my soul
Seeking forgiveness, chasing sin
A life spinning out of control

Creatures adorned with freewill
Christ or Satan, my only...

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Categories: hearkening, confusion, faith, religion
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Lion Under My Bed
When I was very little, a lion lived under my bed ...

It sounds cute and funny now, but then it was a
Very real thing, and...

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Categories: hearkening, childhood, fear, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Rain of Rose 2
Rosy rains still keep dapping on me, rippling into me, trickling in me  
My sentiment and sentimentality set into sediment like descending haze
Settled, stagnated,...

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Categories: hearkening, allusion, romantic, surreal,
Form: Romanticism
Fervent Belief
Beyond the sky, she spreads her wings to fly
Soaring freely within this sanctuary of desire
Gracefully gliding through space – she’s sensually enlightened!

But through treachery, a...

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Categories: hearkening, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blessings of Music
// This is my tribute to the many blessings that music brings to our
lives. I know many of you share this enthusiasm and gratitude. //

Appreciating...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hearkening, appreciation, blessing, music,
Form: Abecedarian
The Narcissist
Turning into an angelic beast,
Here is the ugly Narcissist....
For others! She cared least,
Here's the ugly Narcissist.

When the plot of life got revealed,
She had a role...

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Categories: hearkening, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Luv'sic' Waste of D Henry Allwein, Part I Snippet
(A Presentiment: two lost Wint souls alone converse,
so mind the grown gap——Longshoreman’s Fall hearse.)

"The last boat draws near, allow us depart."
All aboard, all aboard—!
"So Time...

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Categories: hearkening, dark, death, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nuptials Carved By Our Parents
Those lovely little precious moments
Moments we shared and treasured like two lovely doves
Doves that had fallen freshly in love
Love which had been nurtured over a...

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Categories: hearkening, life, mother, wedding
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 'baptism of Desire
The wind whipped the canvas tarp, 
rain pricked the pavilion with the 
accuracy of a Master Archer,
weak seams were laid wide.

Upon bodies warm and wet...

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Categories: hearkening, adventure, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Peace-Giving Deliverer
March 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 10-12

Key Verse – Joshua 10:8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for...

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Categories: hearkening, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
A Mandrake's Gesture: Vol Ii.
The maiden's nipples 
swollen, her bosom
flush with excitement,
hailing her goddess as 
she slighted very 
eloquently, puissant.
The goodness they
shared was of sinful
reproach, a somber
obedience of lovers'
admiration....

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Categories: hearkening, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things