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Best Limn Poems

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Limn of Adult Life
After getting a world class education
and a promise of renewed life
We supposedly enter a life of endless opporunity

A high salaried job becomes the life's expectation
add...

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Categories: limn, life, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Limn of Ballerina Feet
Limn of Ballerina Feet


Slaving, aching in separate rooms of satin palace,
    Two haggard maids make faces wry while weeping sweat,
Their ten sore...

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Categories: limn, beauty, dance, dedication, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fragile Hearts
Feeling lost in twilight schemes through glowing lights of starlit dreams,
raw, my thoughts, like frozen streams, soon melt as mist in iced moonbeams,
and you, your...

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Categories: limn, heartbreak,
Form: Acrostic
Poetry Is a Gift and a Labor of Love
Poetry is a gift and a labor of love.
Beautifully inspired words of
Gentleness.  Composing words
Of Kindness.  Chasing the
Blues far far away!

Poetry is a gift...

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Categories: limn, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent City - Part 1
Ill-fated crowds neath unchained clouds: the Silent City braved
against a sudden flashing flood, unleashing lashing waves,
which stripped its stony structures, blown with neutron bursts that...

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Categories: limn, angst, life, war,
Form: Rhyme



A Stellar Fingerprint
Its fingerprint of astral trace
singles out sidereal face
amongst the heavenly array
of stellar orbs in star ballet
that dance in metamorphous space.

The light dispersals limn with grace
celestial...

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Categories: limn, change, death, life, nature,
Form: Rondeau
Initial Impression of Art Exhibition
I ogled through the open Atelier,
  And chance into a spacious grotto,
  Wanting to carry out an exploration of voodoo kingdom,
  I...

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Categories: limn, art
Form: Free verse
Fragrance
A fresh aroma of the winter roses bore upon
The break of the day light, the first ray hold upon
By the droplets beaded over the floral...

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Categories: limn, nature, seasonstime, day, time,
Form: Ode
Measure of Victory
Should a thousand expression limn the courage in you?
Never! not a word, not a crude
Not in a way that's true.

Should it bend your body but...

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© Ayi Smile  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limn, absence, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wake
Snow graced corn field drest
Light limn, sleep, soil rest.
Feign death’s root, deep need.
Stand with strength and tact.
The cold pines for truth.

Stalk rows hold space.
Shafts beg,...

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Categories: limn, nature
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Moira's Whim
A fawn was ousted into light
At Moira’s playful whim;
Its mother’s keening birthed delight
Too rapturous to limn. 

If Circe were to steer your craft
To her Olympian...

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Categories: limn, destiny, love, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
Leave Those To the Trees
Brunneous look of your eyes
Limn your angle in any place I sight
Maybe the aura of your character is hard to find
Nor the answer is you...

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© Amor Otong  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: limn, heartbreak, hurt, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Moonlight
Shower Thee!Thy wealth,
to the greens that are black,
illuminating them,
heralding rejoice amidst dark.

Oh!rotund illusion,
how can I limn thy brilliance
through pen,for it
may disgrace Thy charm.

Maidens wake to...

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Categories: limn, nature
Form: Free verse
Song For Ballyheigue
Song for Ballyheigue

	County Kerry, Ireland

Twig fire limn
eight fairy
in a lour cave mouth

Four of whom
a tabor thrum

Four of whom
breathe zephyr
through wee fife

All of whom
leap star,
the joy...

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Categories: limn, fantasy
Form: Lyric
Common Thread Second Strand Za
Skull and Crossbones alumni) 
passed along ancestral line when 
cock sure rooster spent 
     however long with a hen
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Categories: limn, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs