Best Lauded Poems
Hidden Beauty
...Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus ......
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Categories:
lauded, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Became a Poet
...Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words into my head whether I want it to or not. Because my lit......
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Categories:
lauded, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
Adored To Abhorred
...from owned to dethroned
you led me
from queen to unseen
you hid me
once crowned to now bound
you kept me
absorbed to derobed
you left me
a spectacle to be gawked at
you jeered me
from d......
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Categories:
lauded, courage, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am But a Grain of Sand
..."Happiness and sorrow ebb and flow like waves upon a beach,
and I am but a grain of sand."
by poet
I think of myself as nothing more than a......
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Categories:
lauded, character, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Long-Suffering Wife
...Believing that marriage was ordained of God;
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing,
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope
that stretched beyond an ordinary scope.
That hope scanne......
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Categories:
lauded, forgiveness, husband, wifehusband, marriage,
Form:
Narrative
Brokenhearted Sunsets
...It's never anything big, just a nagging defeat
Of wanting to be exclusive in your ambit,
For in your eyes, I see an opportune disguise
Living as a friend of genuine vibes gone awry.
It was the ......
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Categories:
lauded, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
...A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.
I had a wonderful job that I loved, making plenty of money,
And a loving fa......
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Categories:
lauded, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form:
Couplet
Whose Memories Are These
...Whose voices, whose memories are these
That warble in trees, exalting my breeze
Applauding the daybreak's cerulean grin
Where amber ocher designs are floating in
Is that your echo from the coba......
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Categories:
lauded, lost love, love, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Remission (In Memory of William Watt).
...Birth begins the tragedy in us. Life's
First sound is a blank scream
Against sorrow's hidden portends of strifes
All we know are mirages and dream.
Mother took the news staring at the sky
She ......
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Categories:
lauded, brother, death, nostalgiaworld, time,
Form:
Elegy
The Faithful Wife
...Believing that marriage was ordained of God;
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing,
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope
that stretched beyond an ordinary scope;
scanned schisms that......
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Categories:
lauded, devotion, faithlove,
Form:
Narrative
Pearl of the Orient
...
Donning splendiferous landscapes stretching for miles,
A culture that aptly prides, in bold, welcoming smiles;
A thriving land of islands~ an archipelago evincing awe,
A resplendence of nature, ......
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Categories:
lauded, culture, nature, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Preaching Peace
...
Trembling in the silence of a fresh snowfall, awaiting the struggle of laughter and tears, the beautiful that comes from stars shadowed by flakes so gentle they seem to speak silence into the spi......
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Categories:
lauded, appreciation, beautiful, january, peace,
Form:
Verse
Radiance of Sunset
...It was time for day to bid adieu to the setting sun,
when tangerine hues blend with those of pale pink.
Not to miss the titian glow, I was afraid to blink,
now that the ebbing of twili......
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Categories:
lauded, sunset,
Form:
Rhyme
Oge
...OGE
Crushed dreams exploded friendships eroded,
stubbornness, selfishness and ego interceded,
......
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Categories:
lauded, people,
Form:
Curtal Sonnet
Let Rip the Farts of Love and War
...I love to fart, it stands me tall,
the raucous rumbling, belly bell,
all look around with eyes aghast,
to witness such a mighty blast.
when before the beak for slander foul,
I gave him one th......
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Categories:
lauded, humor,
Form:
Verse