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Best Keepers Poems

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Premium Member Abandon
Abandon through the flowing blue ice streams, 
          then rise to thirsty trees and fields of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: keepers, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Epoch of Time
Amidst the vortex of empty time, going back a calumnious climb,
To change a love my only crime, sweet surrender of life sublime…
The Time Machines are...

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Categories: keepers, change, lost love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: keepers, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blood of Your Passion
He's staring off into oblivion;
dead-lights, who of their own free will choose to illuminate
the gray matter microwave that is TV:
too vain, too vulgar. Thought Vanquisher,
brought...

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Categories: keepers, allegory, america, angst, today,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Celestial Being
Beautiful angel a soul's destination flies
High above on gossamer wings delicately 
Circling between heaven and earth as soul keepers

Eclipsing the light seraph twitches softly gaze
Touching...

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Categories: keepers, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Alexandrine



Everyone Has a Story
The clouds are now fading,
as the rainbow of life breaks through,
once my tears fell heavy,
but now only a trace of misty blue.

Sometimes we have no...

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Categories: keepers, adventure, faith, life, time
Form: Narrative
Nd Talking To the Stars
I like talking to the stars
They are the best listeners of my wars
Excellent keepers of my secrets
And so we know each others traits
They Comes every...

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Categories: keepers, care, cheer up, friend,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Measure For Measure
An eye for an eye
Soon the world was blind
A place full of misery 
Not one person was kind

People chose to get even
They believed in blow...

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Categories: keepers, corruption, earth, eulogy, pride,
Form: Quatrain
The Gatekeepers of My Soul
In the deep blue realms of sadness
Floats the madness of my soul
No happy childhood dreams to cling to
No cherished memories left to hold

A crippled smile...

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Categories: keepers, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn 

I was with the last Unicorn
As she drew her last breath
Her horn expelled magic
As she succumbed to her death

The fairies and Gnomes
Each...

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Categories: keepers, beauty, bereavement, death of
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A View From a Window
As dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground,...

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Categories: keepers, peace, people, political, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where White Crosses Grow
Rows and rows and rows of white crosses,
Like sentinels -stone-fixed to the ground.
The wind like a shroud wraps around them,
Enshrining each space where they're found.

Stone...

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Categories: keepers, death, hero, memorial day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rough Roads To Roam
The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes...

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Categories: keepers, culture, earth, humanity, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hanging Tree
Dead men tell no tails, or so the winds of 
Destiny’s say.
On judgment hill from on high, 
Voices do echo downwards, as the 
Noose does...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: keepers, adventure, evil, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Craze During Football Game
CRAZE DURING FOOTBALL GAME

Up yellows; greens; reds and blue,
tell me! Tell me, who is through?
Passes. Crosses. Headers. Shots.
Volleys, blasters, more scissor kicks
tell me! Tell me,...

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Categories: keepers, appreciation, football, love, sports,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things