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Best Ideals Poems

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Premium Member Poetry Pillar
When Light needed a body to behold, and color to kiss,
as Darkness dreamnt to die in the dawn of depth,
when Soul lustered to lust for...

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Categories: ideals, beauty, creation, desire, love,
Form: Ode



Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: ideals, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Democracy
Oh, Democracy,* 
You, the most desirable bride among  
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout 
History  
In every part of the world, you...

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Categories: ideals, people, philosophy, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Characterization
Our two party system isn’t working
Plastic figures, disaster lurking
Conservative or liberal isn’t the call
It’s the ultra rich against us all
For the people is what it’s...

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Categories: ideals, political
Form: Couplet
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: ideals, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: ideals, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: ideals, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Overcoming Desperation
Desperation, draw me not like magnets pull
But once again let saneness possess me in full
Do not ravage me like a lion upon its prey
Block not...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ideals, anxiety, depression, fear, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Growing Up
(G)etting taller, larger, or smarter
(R)eady to change things up
(O)pening up to new and different ideals
(W)anting to have more personal control
(I)nterested in deeper understanding
(N)oticing people in...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ideals, adventure, caregiving, change, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Featherless Angels
Reverence heard, a compassionate sound of solemn word,
Resounds mercy of utmost goodwill, aura-divine spurred,
Performing deeds of beneficence, defying malevolence; 
An epistle of angels on earth...

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Categories: ideals, angel, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Cut
A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin...

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Categories: ideals, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Escaping Humanity
Feeling the desolation, of smothering air
Hemmed in by crowds; the obliqueness of fear
Throng of the city and no sight of the sun
Incessant noise and the...

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Categories: ideals, change, conflict, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: ideals, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: ideals, death, time,
Form: Free verse
Crazy Behind These Blues
Hello, sweet brown eyed girl
I'm that guy with the blues
Can't disguise, locked in eyes
Think I might be crazy about you

Give a subtle hint of a...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ideals, allusion, angst, dance, fantasy,
Form: Lyric

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