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Best Locket Poems

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The Locket
The Locket  (it’s never too late)

She hid in the shadows with tears in her eyes
The locket she wore, she had come to despise
In dangling...

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Categories: locket, age, love, , cute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dream
Dream

My mirrored reflection silently speaks

You honor me with your vulnerability
Your scars of life
Your unhealed wounds of betrayal

Dream journals tattoo your body
Your open arms of desire...

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Categories: locket, appreciation, blessing, child, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why He Fought
Soldier stashed a silver locket
Safe inside his jacket pocket
When the war would numb his senses
He’d break down and drop pretenses
Open up the only token
That recalled...

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Categories: locket, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pockets For Her
In here I can be anything
that you desire,
your lonely soul, your heartstring
even become your ring your locket,
I can evolve to become
your strange universe
one to mould...

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Categories: locket, love, life, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
In sepia foliage's of falsified fantasies,
cursed by haunting hornets stinging 
with honeyed painted lies,
her mind was like a matriarch of metaphors.

An inflorescent seed buried in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: locket, analogy, angst, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where Man Walks Blindly and Heart Begs Relief
Where Man Walks Blindly And Heart Begs Relief

In the gnashing of teeth rests 
a curse hurled at infinity
with its smug cannons of false piety
and impudent...

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Categories: locket, art, blue, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cherish Armour
"Cherish Armour"


She 
wears 
Her armour,

LOVE -

draped like chain mail
shields You 
with Her heart

When She is drowning
She will throw You to the sure
safe for Your future

And...

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Categories: locket, daughter, journey, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
A Music Box and Memories
On a cobblestone street,
cracked and ill-repaired, 
I rifle antique shops 
  for a jeweled music box 
     to cradle my...

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Categories: locket, fantasy, grief, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Boadicea Blood Cup
"The Boadicea Blood Cup"


Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and...

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Categories: locket, daughter, home, lost love,
Form: Free verse
His Last Kiss
Raven hair splays across her pillow in soft waves.
Olive skin as smooth as the satin on which she lays.

Golden locket with their images, rests upon...

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Categories: locket, death, grief, love,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Evergreen
United Colours: Green
Sponsor: Silent One

Escape with me into tranquility, my sweet, 
relax with me inside your vitality and growth.
Lead me into your emerald world,
full of...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: locket, color, green, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yesterday
In her tear and dirt streaked face
Her melancholy eyes still seek
Shifting memories that flit and flee
Shadows of the past still speak

A Spark of Hope for...

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Categories: locket, depression, desire, heartbreak, lost
Form: Verse
A Traveler's Story - Part 2
I came late one season in the eve
and I noticed those emerald eyes
waiting for me, I did not see.

Waited to late to return from the...

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Categories: locket, dedication, forgiveness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Fighting Depression With Your Yellow
Your yellow appears during
the darkest days
as you feel the black set in. 
Being aware of your 
instincts causes a chain reaction 
that bleeds into nothingness,
blended...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: locket, depression, suicide, yellow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sisters of Bowling Green
Two sisters it seems lived near Bowling Green;
Each a beauty in every way.
One fair it is told with hair of pure gold,
Eyes blue as the...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: locket, halloween,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs