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Best Last Waltz Poems

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Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: last waltz, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification



Premium Member The Last Waltz
La dernière valse

From the skies
Clouds fall upon my dreams
I am up high, away from it all
I am far, but my tears still fall
I stand up...

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Categories: last waltz, grave, heart, longing, love,
Form: Light Verse
The Last Waltz At Dawn
The wind carries in your soft loving jasmine scent 

Is it really you or am I just daydreaming once more?

The sun taps me on my...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last waltz, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Waltz
Slow and drowsy
Throughout the garden
From one scent to another
Fluttering here and there

Dizzy and groggy
Haphazardly
They stumble 
Barely bumbling

They dance with feeble wings
They flit and hover
The way...

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Categories: last waltz, autumn, garden, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Last Waltz
leaf---listless lifeless
  waltz within wanton winds....
  autumn’s abjectness

© Harry J Horsman  2011...

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Categories: last waltz, nature,
Form: Haiku



Just One Last Waltz
The cowboy took her in his arms
and waltzed her round the floor.
He told her how much he loved her
how he couldn't love her more.

From the...

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Categories: last waltz, childhood, cowboy-western, life, love,
Form: Ballad
We Danced In the Kitchen
Hearts mangled by grief
Lost in separate mazes
Cooking a half-hearted meal
A turn of the head, a quick glance
Trembling hands reach out
Right hand in left, a gentle...

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Categories: last waltz, dance, loss, sad, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Waltz of the Mannequin
A Fantasy

There was I, forgotten in the attic.
Mannequin discarded, ready for demolition.
Cracks everywhere with some rags thrown on
Haphazardly over me like a scarecrow.
Suddenly all lights...

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Categories: last waltz, dance, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flirty Dancing
valse,valet a,highland fling
viola,fiddle,music string;
minuet,pavane rondeau
tripping lightly to & fro.

flirty dancing,fancy free
quick-step and ladies excuse-me;
fox trot and last waltz slow,
holding close,as passions grow....

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Categories: last waltz, funny, nostalgia, social,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Waltz In the Park
Like a secret confided with his last breath
Dangling from his every syllable
He draws me near whispering in my ear
Reaches in to the depths of my...

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Categories: last waltz, city, dance, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Last Ode - Parody of a Song
A parody of “The Last Waltz” song written by: Barry Mason and Les Reed
One Last Ode
I wondered if I’d write ever again
Inklings of my heart...

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Categories: last waltz, parody, sad love, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member She's So Beautiful As She Bleeds To Death
ice crystals are present within the carmine blood 
         that runs through her veins

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Categories: last waltz, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Love Ascends To Heaven
Heaven 
awaits til our
last waltz amongst the wind,
mimicking that of yesterdays...(Sigh)
Nature applauds as we continue in
harmony; never ceasing til
the last tear. Dust we form...
transcending to
Heaven


Pace,...

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Categories: last waltz, heaven, love, marriage, spiritual,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Portrait of a Nightmare
In the boxed gilded frame exists the residue of
A painter’s vision, of his nightmare placed upon
Canvas.
Locked within the cells of four square,
Lies a view into...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: last waltz, halloween, history, holiday, horror,
Form: Free verse
Puttin On the Ritz
Had an invite to a ball in Lake Tahoe
at the Ritz Carlton what a surprise.
To celebrate in true old fashioned style
opened a door couldn’t believe...

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Categories: last waltz, dance, old, time,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs