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Best Iris Poems

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Premium Member The Late Blooming Iris
Lately I have paused, pondering death
But I'm not fit for it's journey yet.

It's not that I loathe meeting death's kind
It will be, for me, an...

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Categories: iris, appreciation, blessing, butterfly, change,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member In the Sun's Last Glow
On her terrace where she once had viewed a crimson field,
she stands recalling heroes who were battling their foe.
She still can feel the terror! How...

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Categories: iris, heart, lost love, may,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: iris, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: iris, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Unseen Rainbow
I've never ever seen her face, 
but in my mind, she's the color of love
Black
strong like dark coffee
She wakes you up early in the morning,
gives...

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Categories: iris, allusion, beauty, love, rainbow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Spring Sonata
Take me there, where the daffodils dance,
Preening with joy, flaunting nature’s art,
Where birds have assembled to watch
Sitting atop, prancing from tips of treetops,
Tuning lyrics of...

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Categories: iris, flower, imagery, spring,
Form: Free verse
Hiya's Words
 "There'll be a zealous zephyr 
    that isn't tamed by time; 
   I'll be the lunar princess, 
 ...

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Categories: iris, appreciation, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Journey To the Pearly Gates and Back Again
Iris sun fades and so does the day
whispers the carried in the silence of night glowing
Wishes floating on silver trails faraway
The image of your face...

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Categories: iris, beauty, heaven, love, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bouquet of Flowers
In a crystal vase, a flower bouquet I arrayed:
 
Iris flowers purple, yellow on its outer edge

Interlaced with a layer of tulips burgundy-red

Beholden to support...

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Categories: iris, flower, love,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member My Family
flowers are women
in my family’s garden -
Mom and her daughters

rhythm surrounds me
as I sway in contentment -
September’s Aster

Geranium Jen
bends graciously in the breeze - 
our...

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Categories: iris, mother daughter, sister,
Form: Haiku
Signature of Life
Over the still pond
a leaning branch of Iris
Messenger of Love

sudden gentle breeze
flower kisses the water
whispering love talk

ripples in water
sending another message
signature of life




P.S:Love~kash



Iris:Name of a...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iris, love, nature,
Form: Haiku
Refleksie
'k kyk neer rivier
wat kronk'lend paaie baan
in dalle vloer
afgemat en steeds geboè
poele plas en blitsend 'kaats
drenkend dans palmiete gras
soos manne kras in kroee
dalk net dromend...

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Categories: iris, passion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Pearl of the Orient
"Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, 
hindi makakarating sa paroroonan".
(A person who does not remember where he came from 
will never reach his destination).
Filipino proverb.

Gift me...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: iris, travel,
Form: Free verse
One Hundred Thirty-Six Pretty Petals
Inside twinkling eyes of nights bloom
          Garden flowers whisper
      Peeking through...

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Categories: iris, flower, garden, summer,
Form: Free verse
Bilocation

   "A crescent dahlia floats, birthed in decay ~
            midst emerald ferns,
...

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Categories: iris, deep, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things