Best Hosted Poems
A Long Loud Sigh
...genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and ......
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Categories:
hosted, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
To My Granddaughter
...
I look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes
Your sails adjusting, full with winds of hope.
But there are m......
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Categories:
hosted, grandchild, light, trust,
Form:
Sonnet
Tell It To the Rain
...Like the cloud, I am collecting the moisture in memory,
Soaking up the solitude, I have been alone in misery.
Feeling full on failure, droplet wall builds on my skin,
Heavy with weight of the worl......
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Categories:
hosted, hurt, rain, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Little Miss Spring
...They say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
and put on the dress of Yes Sir! and Thank You Ma'am
She sure is a joy This baby little season
......
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Categories:
hosted, adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
Form:
Light Verse
Saints and Demons On Halloween
...On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a grand ball
In heaven’s huge castle, a white marble town hall
......
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Categories:
hosted, holiday
Form:
Couplet
Beautiful Mystery
...Beautiful Mystery (English Sonnet)
I heard the roaring from amongst the trees
as sheeted water tumbled from up high
a place where nature lay in blissful peace
exhaling fragrant breaths t......
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Categories:
hosted, beauty,
Form:
Sonnet
Sidney Snoozer
...Here lies Sidney Snoozer, a lover of sleep,
His last nap eternal – relaxed, six foot deep.
For Epitaph Contest 2
Hosted by Jesse Rowe
© 15th April 2019......
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Categories:
hosted, death, funny,
Form:
Epitaph
Everyday Is Beautiful
...Everyday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.
Tuesdays are for Tenderness, for the l......
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Categories:
hosted, appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Where Freedom Finds the Fire
...You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it in the smell of a burning memory
like me......
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Categories:
hosted, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form:
Romanticism
A Child's Prayer
...Clutched tight to my chest, the doll smiles lifelessly
sending vacant stares down the darkened hall.
A solitary line of pink light sneaks through a crack in the door.
Fighting tears hanging loosel......
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Categories:
hosted, bereavement, child, heartbreak, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Element Water
...It took place shortly after and the stage was set
before words before ink before heavenly breath
There was a rain on the parade
of eternal monotony
and the angels were elated
I......
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Categories:
hosted, allegory, allusion, bible, deep,
Form:
Free verse
A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
...Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal your breath
only to resurrect you again,
......
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Categories:
hosted, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Romanticism
Categories:
hosted, body, poems, woman, women,
Form:
Concrete
A Water Haiku
...the village pump-
in a gurgle
my childhood
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Contest hosted by Mick Talbot......
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Categories:
hosted, remember, water,
Form:
Haiku
Christmas
...The bells are calling as the snowflakes fall
Illuminations twinkle with delight
A goodwill message sent to one and all
The joys of Christmas fill this festive night.
Excited children gaze with ......
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Categories:
hosted, christmas,
Form:
Sonnet