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Best Indicative Poems

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Premium Member Heinrich Heine Revisited
I can clearly sense your utter despair of Der Matratzengruft*
As you valiantly carried on your poetic works to the very end.
This did not change your...

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Categories: indicative, history, international, philosophy, poems,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Death and Forlorn Time In the Shadows of True Evil
Death and Forlorn Time in the Shadows of True Evil

Death and Time holdeth onto eerie and most frightening shadows
Whilst pervading deeply within that infernal region...

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Categories: indicative, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Quintain (English)
Crows Only Pick At the Best Fruit
(A Co-worker)

Stop hatin' on me you ole crow,
Why don't you give me what you owe-
Me and that is respect you old coot,
Don't you know that...

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Categories: indicative, funny, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member - Hope For Tomorrow -
Everything in my past,
has shaped me into who I am today

Daughter I'm fine
Thinking on all the years we had
which you today opt out of
Actions, decisions...

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Categories: indicative, daughter, emotions, family, love,
Form: Narrative
Sulu, Lock Phasers and Await My Command 2
(Spock)

Captain, sensors indicate a power surge
Resonating through their ship's body
I'm sure I don't have to remind you
They have their own Scotty




(the questioning me)

But where has...

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© The Fringe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indicative, philosophy, spacefaith, fear, me,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member When Deception Reigns
I searched for the answer 
to a question I dared to ask
wondering why people hide 
behind so many masks.
The query was this:  
"What's happened...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indicative, integrity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poem Is
The poem is a beautiful garden
Yet the visiting admirer 
Sees only the surface
Beautiful?
Colorful?
Chaotic?
Orderly?
Are the tidy, straight rows of strawberries
Indicative of a neat, colorful gardener?
Or are...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indicative, mystery, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
What Is In a Name
Either silent or eloquent
A name there must be
To be a speck in the infinity
Without the speck, high or low
Where the heck you can go

So I...

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Categories: indicative, color, conflict, courage, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Arrogance
What open display of arrogance!
Only fools would dare to chance
Do we know what tomorrow brings, 
Just around and beyond the bend?
This desperation blinds you so,
And...

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Categories: indicative, business, life, peoplelife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anticipations An Open Form
ANTICIPATIONS

with
 apprehensive
contrasts
in
 sombre
 glimpses
 totally
 themselves
&
so
 necessary
 to survive

disquiet
made
manifest
in
 venerable
tradition

an
 intensity
emulated
with
hypnotic
fixity

a
considered
 significance
  evident
&
perceptible
with
an
indicative
corrective
descending

an
 embarked
inclination...

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Categories: indicative, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Plastic Society
Tattle cries are just as loud as battle cries, 
but the difference is 
tears from mannequins dry on untouchable skin. 
You may have a purpose,...

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© Mindy Clay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: indicative, fear, patriotic, planet, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken Love
Forsaken Love

Dear lover, why hast thou forsaken me
my miserable life now cut in shreds
If only thee had instead set me free
love, no longer sharing our...

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Categories: indicative, age, art, break up,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Alabaster Snowflakes
Alabaster snowflakes scattered over  
Brindled patches of frozen forest floor
Cover Autumn's fragmented tapestry.
December fluffs up Winter's white duvet 
Eager to embrace the bitter cold...

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Categories: indicative, beautiful, december, imagery, nature,
Form: Abecedarian
Superior Man
Other men wonder how I make women mesmerize
Bigger than most men similar to football player size
I begin to share my secret and they still don’t...

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Categories: indicative, caregiving, love, passion, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Commandment Battlement - Final Part -
A pawn for a pawn,a crown to crown,
whom is Master of this Lodge in town,
this I enquire while preparing the pyre for you to retire,
my...

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Categories: indicative, engagement, lost, war,
Form: Epic

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