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Best Likening Poems

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Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: likening, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Moonlight Love
In that hidden mystery I call my mind;
There are places I seldom go;
It’s in these places that my soul often cries out;
Perhaps in likening to...

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Categories: likening, lovecrazy, me, places,
Form: I do not know?
The Night Walk.
**A WINNING POEM**


That night, my heart pleaded i should
Wait over and pass the night at grand pa's 
Old inn.
Enormous was my concern to reach home...

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Categories: likening, adventure, confusion, death, faith,
Form: Lyric
My Fantasy 1
Her name for now, I wish to conceal
And when I make my case i will reveal
Well then, I hope we have a deal

Combing the streets...

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Categories: likening, lovebeauty, sound, beauty, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Grace

"~ (~) ~"

"oh god-
tender, 

gracious - 

render us 
softly upon fields silken-
lavender flower-petaline 
clear-sky's paradise-
golden... - 

till when 
if then 
there-we 
make-it... ?"

bushel, 
animate 
deaden...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likening, love, time,
Form: Prose Poetry



Thee Apple Hove Bing An Herbivore
Thee Apple Hove Bing an Herbivore...?
(hint – app peal)

Sans maintaining a strict carb on diet
     (for Peat Sake) iz like really...

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Categories: likening, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Camp
The smell of wood smoke drifts through
The air with no presence of mind to settle anywhere
Except on the clothes of old men who struggle to...

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© Mark Heil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: likening, addiction, anxiety, emotions, environment,
Form: Free verse
Figurines
Figurines


Lace up your shoes
Wear your black hoodie 
And your Timberland’s, too
You’ll never know what ‘ll happen to you 
Or where you’ll end up
On your way...

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Categories: likening, abuse, africa, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Genesis of Thoughts
Narrow and shallow shining laser focus 
     into chasm while teetering on brink
akin to scurrying thru microcosmic burrow 
  ...

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Categories: likening, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life Line
I look up from my post, lying on the floor
Questioning the cracks in the ceiling above me
Likening them to my recent history
Stretched from end to...

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Categories: likening, growth, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God You'Re the Bed I Want To Lie In
Your love is likening a bed, at home;
With four posts as legs represents the world you see;
And the sheets on top are the skies, (blue...

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Categories: likening, appreciation, christian, desire, devotion,
Form: Lyric
I Pray As I Prey
The first glimpse of this radiant creature, unraveled mind's clarity 
Enchanted fairy tale innocence, God's miracle gift, 'tis rarity 

My heavens opened, likening the world...

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Categories: likening, allegory
Form: Couplet
More Than a Handshake With Darkness
darkness invites
bringing out the self that matters
(free of all the chicanery brought on by daylight)
inside the lit candle light
(painting only part of the face, allowing...

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Categories: likening, life, death, death,
Form: Free verse
Cotton Web
Cotton Web



Walls, 
Old, stinky paint over cardboard

Vents in place of windows 
The kitchen’s 
Sticky with oily cotton web
A likening to smeared prune paste and rust...

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Categories: likening, anxiety, city, class, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Leftist a Wrist Tuck Crat
Bloody leftist a wrist tuck crat!

Fingers of left hand cried freedom,
detached themselves and declared
mutiny gesticulating thumb thing
awful, than furiously haughtily
prancing, skittering, zipping,...
as self important independent...

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Categories: likening, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs