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Best Lode Poems

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Premium Member The Ballad of Prospector Pete
Prospector Pete had roamed the hills fer years searchin' fer gold!
He and his faithful burro, Fred, were both growin' weary and old.
He'd looked fer color...

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Categories: lode, funny,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member In Ruins
In the puddle of monsoon floods
Autumn boughs are quick to erode
From  the grate of colder evenings
Finely whipping  each earthen lode.

Yet  for all...

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Categories: lode, beauty, seasons,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member An Old Shovel
In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak!
In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek.
Hordes of...

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Categories: lode, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Prospector Pete
Prospector Pete had roamed the hills fer years searchin' fer some gold.
He and his faithful burro, Fred, were both growin' weary and old.
He'd looked fer...

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Categories: lode, humorous, irony,
Form: Ballad
A Love Story
A lane alone
A look alike
A lift aloft
A love alive
A luau aloha
A load allied
A laugh aloof
A lode allude
A lore allure
A loan align
A lodge allege
A lobo alibi
A...

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© Jim Musser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lode, betrayal, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member I Saw God But Now What
Written: April 13, 2024 

Rumi Quote: "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God"

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lode, analogy, dream, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Pick a Pear
I went to the orchard to pick a pear.
I picked another so I’d have a pair.
But now their skins I’d have to pare.

One was all...

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Categories: lode, fun, funny, giggle, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happiness
Written: March 13, 2024 For Andrea Dietrich Contest
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Happiness is the epitome of love and...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lode, beauty, happiness,
Form: List
Premium Member Oh Moon, Your Shine Is Shy
We have this flirtation me and you--
never quite able to see your face.
Watching you while all alone.

Sometimes you write my night
with scrolls of silken words
saying...

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Categories: lode, moon, romantic, together, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just the Truth
The times have fallen hard now, to scenes played on 'unmade' roads
Without my volition, and despite intentions, goals;
Indifference took precedence; a lust of life was...

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Categories: lode, freedom,
Form: Verse
Ghosts of Buzzard's Breath
© 2009 (Jim Sularz)

Quiet mounds of yellowed tailings and dead weeds whisper low.
And proud rusting relics telling tales of striking gold.
The rush from East, from...

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Categories: lode, funny, history, humorous,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Coming: Mood Variations
The Coming…
(Mood Variations…)

		      
The long hot summer yields to the arrival
of the cooling fall.
Despite the coming treat to survival
towering trees...

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Categories: lode, allegory, analogy, black african
Form: Prose Poetry
Ancient Prophecy
The tender, torpid sun floats bored and heavy over vines
And casts his gentle, crimson rays upon the Apennines. 
Above the calm and golden hill, Agrippa’s...

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Categories: lode, destiny, history, mythology, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
House of Gold
Exorcists under a big dome
Power unleashed over the hailed home
Walls of two and one Illuminati
Knights of great graffiti

Eight century mystifying
Eleventh century glorifying
Bank of hidden treasure
Rank...

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Categories: lode, creation, mystery,
Form: Other
Premium Member In Love With a Nerd
1. Too fired up
he exaggerates every niggle
and squashes every chance to assuage our boils.
He acts without a lode star
putting everything under weigh
and exhibiting ignorance with...

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Categories: lode, appreciation, art, beauty, boyfriend,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs