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Best Magnum Opus Poems

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Magnum Opus
Man of words, strange creature of fiery intention,
Amplifying pictures with that restless imagination,
Great are the images spurting forth from your pen,
Nothing holds you down, working...

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Categories: magnum opus, art, introspection, on work
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member The Truth About Women
Bestowed with femininity,
     wisdom, elegance, and grace,
 exemplifying dignity, 
     daughter of the human race.

X chromosome integrity
...

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Categories: magnum opus, daughter, mother, people, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into...

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Categories: magnum opus, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Penning In Consummate Rhyme
Metaphors and similes exude when scripting poetic verse.
Across pale parchment, the poet's pen continues to traverse.
Ink courses like life blood, rushing through his eddied veins
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magnum opus, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Eye Is Such a Braggart
The eye is such a braggart with its emerald this and hazel that.
Does no one dream about an ear or a nose?
(personally ... I find...

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Categories: magnum opus, appreciation, bereavement, body, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member You Are Nothing --- As Am I
I used to think poetry was about expression
(but some it seems would rather make it a competition)
I used to think beautiful words were meant to...

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Categories: magnum opus, anger, angst, feelings, how
Form: Verse
Vignette-Ode To Joy
Inspired by Friedrich Von Schiller’s poem,
The birth to a tumultuous...orchestral bliss.
The flicks of his wand was the rhythm he heard,
A call for dramatic attention...an extraordinary...

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Categories: magnum opus, music
Form: Ekphrasis
The Voice of a Palpitating Soul
Dear penguin bearers, 

Your fears are my letters. 
Your attacks are my words. 
Your choking is my ink. 
Your voice is my language. 
Your trembling...

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Categories: magnum opus, mental illness, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Declaration of Conception
Declaration of Conception:
(Books are life)




Syringe of knowledge
Injected into my vein
           Before birth
   ...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magnum opus, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagine This Flight
Noonday dreamer weaves a blue ray visual
Sight and sound young orb amid the lunar tides
Silver trophy field of play renaissance type 
mesmerising global village new...

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Categories: magnum opus, art, birth, color, creation,
Form: Verse
Equus
Beneath the forelocks shady shroud
 and chestnut lashes low,
A gaze to halt the human heart
This creature can bestow.
Apple breathed indifference and 
Wistful, fearful grace
Can catapult...

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Categories: magnum opus, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Requiem
Requiem


The map to Requiem
Is often long, confused, and composed
By differing charters...Also
Too layered to sort.  So many movements!
Even the very shortest of lives
Could story a...

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Categories: magnum opus, christian, dedication, history, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mozart Requiem
Written: February 13, 2023
           ____________________________________________

An anathema for,
pilose nettle burns,
an art form of unstable feathers,
tropes across...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: magnum opus, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost
Just before daybreak while lying in bed
A lovely poem was filling my head.
To my computer to write it all down,
In all its glory, each adverb...

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Categories: magnum opus, on writing and wordswrite,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Mermaid's Tail --Tale--
Shards of gilded light, so iridescent,
cascading over your perfect shoulders.
Your sensuous form, curled 'to a crescent,
nestled amongst the rocks and the boulders.

You stretch languidly and...

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Categories: magnum opus, fantasy, feelings, fish, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs