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Best Mildly Poems

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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...

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Categories: mildly, introspection, memory,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Come What May
The steep waning of duskfall held by one
Cuddled by a wheeze , the dim air’s pale  light,
Nestling  upon boughs of  memoirs undone
As...

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Categories: mildly, life, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Tame the Tempest
They know how to press those buttons,
With just a familiar chosen word or two,
How to enrage one's spirit with a tone,
A glance sharp enough to...

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Categories: mildly, anger, feelings, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Oya-Goddess of Wind
At the dawn of life
Gods came with their wonders:
Obantala came with art and creation;
He was the one that moulded man;
Ogun came with iron,
It was Ogun...

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Categories: mildly, god,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside.  Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there.  Years...

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Categories: mildly, depression,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Avoiding Beautiful September
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The personal is boring
as are my ruminations on the war.
What I need to do I can't try: 
wander without shelter in the backcountry.
Or go deeper...

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Categories: mildly, beautiful, care, god, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Soupercilious

My Favorite Things comes to mind...


a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscured in meaning, eschewing...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mildly, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Symphony of Rainfall
Written: February 22, 2024
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mildly, analogy, appreciation, celebration, rain,
Form: Rhyme
The Virgin
A surly old maid
had an urge to be laid
and bemoaned her virginal status
with life discontented
her plight she lamented:
"'tis not easy to live without coitus."

A scheme...

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Categories: mildly, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gentle the Air
When crisp Anemoi swerve in my mind
and gently rouse, oh ‘pon the fair moonlight,
I raise my cheeks  to taste the dew, refined 
through quivers...

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Categories: mildly, uplifting, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Wheel In September
I've startled a frog, who leaps in flashes.
He and a grasshopper zig-zag away.
The lawn whispers mildly, in tune with the sun,
Yet something's amiss--the air is...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mildly, autumn, garden, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Marched For the Madness of Mortality's Mayheim -
Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,

we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no...

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Categories: mildly, history, march,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member One-Sided Love
How the movement of light 
seems to trace
my ardor lingering in whirls of flame; 
where glimmers of a cherished dream
become this heart’s desire 
to journey...

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Categories: mildly, farewell, love, sad love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Melancholic Gaze
Awakened from a mid-sleep tingle
of the wind ,your absent body drifts
gently like a  formless  cloud into
night’s minutes:  a holy air which
smells of...

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Categories: mildly, father daughter, image, loneliness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tattered Photo's Beauty
Sepia  photo hides  a face
With  creased lines  that could not retrace;
The details of  Grandma’s allure
As  tints cover those outlines...

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Categories: mildly, beauty, image, old,
Form: Couplet

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