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Best Left Behind Poems

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Premium Member Where the Sycamore Grew
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Categories: left behind, autumn, family, house, life,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Poet Who Never Was
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...

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Categories: left behind, emotions, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plagiarizing
"Mine all Mine!"

A thief I long to be
Your eyes original like the moon and sea

A lover in the world............
An Anthology, you walk and talk like...

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Categories: left behind, addiction, beauty, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touch Me
"In Touch With Myself"

I can't seem to find her
The reminder of yesterday
I shut my eyes for a few seconds
Only there, can I reach to bear...

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Categories: left behind, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Judas Like Tan
""Child's Play""

You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise, 
You scream bloody murder 
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...

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Categories: left behind, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member No Reservation
You Are Not Invited

--Latching onto my soul without an invitation--
Elements around my shore expose more than air
--Playing with fire is not a game you will...

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Categories: left behind, abuse, bullying, deep, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Best Poem Ever
~The best poem ever~

Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....

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Categories: left behind, death, words, heart, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: left behind, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: left behind, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Soul Searching Trek Along Winter's Snow Painted Trails - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Waking to cold blown tent, ground frozen icy hard
woods are my love, as is poetry to a bard.
Today starts my anticipated forest trek,
seeking salvation from...

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Categories: left behind, appreciation, beauty, introspection, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summers Eve
~Summer’s Eve ~


I am a woman!
I am proud-

I am everything you want. 
Plus more
The adoring wife,
A beautiful mother, 
A grandmother a granddaughter 
A daughter, a...

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Categories: left behind, beautiful, grandmother, mothers day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monster
MONSTER

Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed, 
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...

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Categories: left behind, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: left behind, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: left behind, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is Love
I still recall our first poetic glance,
dormant pen roused my fingers to dance.
Her love was like a cherry blossom tree,
which at first blossomed so beautifully.

When...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: left behind, love, love hurts,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs