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Best Midstream Poems


Premium Member Eddy In the Mirror
...A long hard look softens to the touch
life lines   rivers that ebbed and flowed
the midstream upstream fight
has left its nicks and scars
but the brooks that babbled batting lashes
that sent spl......

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Categories: midstream, image, metaphor, river, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Soft Song of Summer Breeze
...Melodic tunes resound with night
When stars begin  flamed hours’ delight …
There is  a lilt  circling the air
As east winds rustle to prepare,
Nocturnal valleys  gently calm
       Releasing the......

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Categories: midstream, music, relationship, summer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Poem Unlived
...A poem unlived
is a poem merely written -- 

sustenance our words

let the body digest with heartfelt
regurgitation – a poem unlived
is a poem merely written
 
as well as tasty center, a hea......

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: midstream, introspection, passion, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Sheriff's Last Ride
...When visions crawl into his dream
to grate against a hilltop’s ire,
a sheriff flicks like soft campfire
where hazy winds dip low ,midstream.
Bandit frays stab a roguish past…
he gaze......

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Categories: midstream, nostalgia, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Whisper Mildly---Lgt
...In moments when the twilight sparks
To gently flare as dark embarks,
Tender comes eve swinging a hum
While air-brushed clouds, on flight, succumb.

Yet, through the lull of sky, I hear
Their voic......

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Categories: midstream, introspection, memory,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Inaudible
...there is a peace
deep-rooted
that echoes through

as if by some enchantment
its gentle breeze rolls
tumbling in slow motion
toward the lands
barely disturbing
skies of azure blue

wispy cl......

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Categories: midstream, peace, summer, surreal, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Two Drops of Water
...Two drops of water fell from heaven
Unlike any other, they were in love
Holding each other they stayed together
Dreaming of river and deep blue ocean.

It wasn't easy to skip the flower-garden
......

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Categories: midstream, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
...~When "light upon yon window” aims to break
into my hollow head by early dawn,
such brilliant prose pours in as I awake
but by the time I stretch those words are gone.
   And like two roads that ......

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Categories: midstream, angst, humor,
Form: Sonnet
The Pipeline
...absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress......

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Categories: midstream, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreary This Roam
...The ink of sky engulfs my dream
While night’s cinder darkens the shore,
And tattered leaves pivot midstream
To infect my grief much like before.
Dreary this roam, this roam so cold
A......

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Categories: midstream, absence, bereavement, death,
Form: Sonnet
A Field Day For Mother Goose
...Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle
   when off to see a crooked man and woman
whilst cowards jumped over moo ving little
   pair of mismatched muggles, 
   who both walked from scan
din na......

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Categories: midstream, adventure, change, confusion, faith,
Form:
Through the Eyes of a Twin
...Through The Eyes of A Twin
(Faux Limerick)

Sometimes I wonder is it just me
Visions in my head that I can see
Fear grips at me so strong
I thought boy this is wrong
Rebuking Satan told him to......

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Categories: midstream, life, sisterprayer,
Form: Limerick
Don'T
...DOn't bite the hand that feeds you
Don't burn your bridge behind you
Don't cast your pearls before swine
Don't change horses in midstream 
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don'......

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Categories: midstream, age,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member First of Morning Uplifts
...How lustrous the first of morning,
When Aurora spreads her brocade
Laced tassels weave through daylight’s ring--
As she glitters on fragrant glade.

While midstream, breezes decorate......

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Categories: midstream, beauty, morning, uplifting,
Form: Sonnet
Valerie
...Valerie



It was one of those chance encounters; the Common Room, mid-morning on a brisk April day. She bounced in with a radiant smile and absent-mindedly scanned the newspapers. I was reading ......

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Categories: midstream, writing,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things