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Best Ill Poems

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Premium Member The Blessings of Prayer
Like a gazelle springing from left to right 
Your prayers come winging through perilous night

Making swift haste to my ill beating heart.
I was amazed at...

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Categories: ill, blessing, butterfly, poets, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: ill, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: ill, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition
Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: ill, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ozzie Our Spaniel
The 28th of April; I'll always remember that day
It was very overcast and the sky was quite grey
That short journey to the vet I will...

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Categories: ill, best friend, emotions, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member It Was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)


There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...

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Categories: ill, angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: ill, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Tribute To Daddy
You were the oak in our family tree,
With roots that were strong and true,
Holding on so tenaciously
No ill wind could topple you.
We nestled under your...

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Categories: ill, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme
In Mind
In depths of mind we despair
chilled within the barren dark
we look hard, inside out
for answers to unknown questions
but none are really there
it's us that makes...

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© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ill, community, courage, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lilah of the Lilacs
Like violets were her eyes when first I spied
the lady with a sweet child’s face who peeked
at me from bushes that she stood beside,
alluring Lilah,...

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Categories: ill, autumn, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Price of Free Will
Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted, 
God provides each one a life...

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Categories: ill, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dandelions
Sustained by the frequent spring showers
Adorned by rosettes of dark green
They burst into dense yellow flowers
The florets parading their sheen.

They sway to sensations of pleasure...

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Categories: ill, flower, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Categories: ill, society, war,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs