Best Likens Poems

Traversing Iceland's National Park, a timeless place, where daylight fills each passing hour
    and twilights ever brief. While volcanoes stand by sentinel,...

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Your life must have been worthwhile
You success is one milestone
Turning another facet of life
Likens a turning of a book of each page.

For every millennium
And for...

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Floriography

Allamanda in April slowly open its trumpets around posts that look like 
Buttercups of honey for bees to dive in to replenish their striped bellies
Crocus's...

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Love, a curse or a boon
a query that has grown
there exist a lucky few
who hath tasted this feeling true

Young love likens a rosebud
pure and delicate,...

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 quatrain 

Resolved to quit, a collection betrays my dear Mona.
Hers are the ones marked by colorful stain.
Her obsession likens her to my aging Smith-Corona.
It’s...

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Constantly is one
Contacting you is keeping alive
And loving you despite the distance
Is a gentle rain
Rapidly to dampen
Loneliness that hamper and threatens
Thus,  energizing and maintaining
Our...

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Of White and Gold
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She’s an artist of word and rhyme
He’s an artist of capturing time
She weaves lines creating emotion
He stills a moment in motion

He brings her into focus
She...

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“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the...

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The only thought in God’s head is 
Being. 
Existence 
is the choice that Free Will made. 
To be and know necessitates “seeing,” 
and seeing requires
both...

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Light


Light, bright, fair 
Long, soft hair
A spectacle beyond compare
Small, narrow, pointy nose
Soaps and scrubs
And cheap lightening creams get smeared and lathered 
Lasers, needles, pills 
And...

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When at a Chinese restaurant, I frequently dote upon their paper place settings, the Chinese horoscope. It likens a token animal to the year that...

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African Spring  

The rain has settled
liquidy soil
ingested to wait
the blessing of Spring
nature renewed

mystical blooms
surround the veldt
in Africa
endeared by Sun

Clivia
yellow strength
likens Sun

waits for
its kin

Moon

Diminished Hexaverse...

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Once upon a time her cat dissolves in my arms 

one night while she was at work
and once upon a time
because what i did that...

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A mountain of faith
Like a mountain of dust 
A good gust of wind
Will banish all trust
Faith likens hope
Delusion to some
To others the vision of
Great things...

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