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Best Moorings Poems

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Premium Member November
...carries the wilted weight of autumn
                   ...

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Categories: moorings, autumn, celebration, earth, family,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Teal Harbor
Idle porcelain boats 
are seagulls 
floating
on a teal harbor
blond moorings
cast like kelp
Sails stiff 
as egrets
glide slowly
toward 
a cerulean channel
Atop turtle islands
pastel cottages
are pearls gleaming
on oyster...

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Categories: moorings, beach, bird, boat, ocean,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Prematurely
Outside the rain-splattered window
winds whipped
tearing still-moist leaves
from their moorings
hurled to the ground
dying, like our love
prematurely
without a proper goodbye...

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Categories: moorings, love, rain, wind,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member TRANSMUTATION
Once I had harbored complexes many.
I thought I wasn’t beautiful or wise.
With my spluttering tone and broken speech,
I feared, my words fell flat,
Never leaving an...

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Categories: moorings, baptism, birth, change,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Home Is a Burning Flame
“Home is a Burning Flame”



Align yourself with the belief that HOME will come to you in the end

You can see yourself in her eyes, but...

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Categories: moorings, home, identity, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mother
 play at Full Volume





"MOTHER" 

Mother Earth 
is Crying

Her heart is breaking
Earth is shaking violently

She is hurt and 
She is angry

Her tears no longer reign
Oceans...

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Categories: moorings, creation, death, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the First Cell -
The term "the first cell", creation process

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Categories: moorings, bible, birth, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Words of Whiskey
McGee’s Tall Tale

I first saw McGee with his back facing me
sitting in the Pub with a pint
When Finn, asked him "Tell us a Tale"
So, he...

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Categories: moorings, humorous, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ocean Dreams
Gently wooed from turquoise moorings
      Daydreams sailed to mist skirted realms
         ...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moorings, imagination,
Form: Verse
For I Can Hear Life
When our once young selves 
turn stale
and old and old and old, 
then in that beauty 
I still see, I can hear life...
I can hear...

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Categories: moorings, allusion, appreciation, beauty, death,
Form: Free verse
Swallowed Death
I wade the waterside enticing death.
The sea extols the brash to th’ outermost
Abyss. A ‘know it all’, I challenged this 
Watery host.

I capsized in the...

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Categories: moorings, death, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Babble On
Wild little brook in such a hurry
Lifting your face to the sun
Tumbling over the hours and days 
Chatting along as you run

Hundreds of tiny glass...

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© Sarah Hand  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moorings, nature, uplifting, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quills of Destruction
It all begins in the darkest part of our empty souls.
When we realize we won't or can't possibly reach our goal.

We gnash out bloodied teeth, crying to...

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Categories: moorings, evil, humanity, people, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Siren
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Siren,

your fluid
hymn lures
me past tense 
gray gulls

who eye me, 
anxious 
for my safe
return

They circle,
keening...

and the tide
moves to
free me of
      ...

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Categories: moorings, longing, love, ocean, sea,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Forever
On a day of wedded bliss and joy,
The blackest night came crashing down.
A heart so full of love and tenderness,
Beat no more upon this earth.

In...

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Categories: moorings, lost love, love, sympathyheart,
Form: Free verse

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