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Best Laboring Poems

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A Night At the Desolate Harbor
The ship in the habor on silvery seas
Lay vacant outspread 'neath the glassy moon
Drifting in cold whispers of the night
Like a drunk man shriveled on...

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Categories: laboring, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Dew Diaries
I was a world famous fashion designer, and quite enraptured with the new,
Like first caress of pink, peach dawn light, smiling at the full moon's...

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Categories: laboring, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning,
Form: Couplet
These Hands
These hands have known the joys of a boy’s youthful play
Also known the farm work that was required each and every day
These hands pulled the...

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Categories: laboring, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and...

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Categories: laboring, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Happy Birthday
September sunshine , rainy laboring day

Gardenias heat loving fragrance lead the way

Hibiscus sprays diligence  trumpet   their way

A breath, a prayer,  a...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laboring, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme



Bloodred Silk
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Crimson lace and black tie bows, afore this reflectless glass...

Laboring breath while untying her negligee to reveal, these lovely breast ~

Reaching for my palms with...

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Categories: laboring, love, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse
Melted Ice Cream Promises
You swear your word is solid
as a silver serving spoon
Well, why does it always feels like
another mis-spoken dog day afternoon
		Hotter than July
in the middle of...

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Categories: laboring, allusion, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lovely Suppositions
i have kissed beneath summer’s sweltering
fragrance your array of spackled decay

in lovely gardens; sweet roses weltering
plundered and plucked; an incidental lay

beneath your satin I have...

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Categories: laboring, lost love, love, lust,
Form: Sonnet
Whats Broken
What’s Broken?

Some things that are broken can never be fixed
Like hearts shattered, as glass on the floor
What felt like love, don’t no more
No distance No...

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Categories: laboring, break up, emotions, moving
Form: Prose Poetry
Describe Him
His Feet are kind of rough and a tad bit sore
Been standing on God’s promises since his feet hit the floor
His Knees are worn out...

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© Mya Nathan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: laboring, angel, assonance, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Magnetism of Our Union
 Nice and slow, I feel you coming on
Persistent, messy, though fragile
You are over me, under me, beyond me
Crushing my lingering patience,
So that it no...

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Categories: laboring, creation, growth, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Offered Relationship From God
You’re our Creator, and we’re Your creation
Thanks for reaching down to us for our salvation
To offer us Your relationship of sweet heaven’s jubilation…
Now, we’re heading...

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Categories: laboring, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Mother and I
Mother shares all, sacrificing 'til barren.

She and I are one, united in breath and dust,
the atoms and spirits spinning, fragments of failures,
curiosity and constraint.
I was...

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Categories: laboring, allegory, life, prayer,
Form: Personification
Chaos Mathematics
can't even fart anymore
without kicking up a hurricane
halfway around the Earth
according to reports this has occurred
at a great loss of life and mind
within minutes of...

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Categories: laboring, how i feel, universe,
Form: Free verse
Conception
Conception

There
In seconds words birth
A phrase laboring me to pen
Anticipation of a perfect offspring
Contraction squint the mind for me
That shudders a intent, until
It flops on the...

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Categories: laboring, artme,
Form: Free verse

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