Best Nearby Poems

You've no doubt heard of fire-breathing dragons,
and their obsession with hoarding treasure.
But have you ever heard of Huffle-Winks;
these magical creatures promote pleasure.

Invisible, atop their dragonflies,
they ride the winds of fate mile after mile.
And whenever they encounter a frown;
they attempt to flip it into a smile.

They...

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A Child's Day With Nature In The Nearby Woods
(honoring...

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"Where There's A Shadow, Nearby There Is Light"


               In some of the darkest moments of life
               that...

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Two
fawn stood
beyond Dale's
grave and fed on
fallen acorns.  A
doe, then a second deer
haltingly drew near.  One buck
hung back where grass met woods, head raised,
watching. . . like my dear brother - apart
from family, yet not too far away....

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Why must I hear
the tempting gurgle
Of the life giving stream 
A sound wet with promise
Of refreshment

Why must I see
The alluring rush of movement
Liquid heaven
An enticing flow
Beckoning me to immersion

Why must I but lie here
Dying for want of water?
The sandpaper of my lips
Not even welcoming
A tongue...

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NEARBY SOUNDS.


Sound waves reach eardrum that is,
a cocktail of cooler,phone,
mixer,kids play,cats meow,
nightingale's koo hoo.



Dodoitsu form is a 26 syllable poem of 4 lines of 7,7,7,5 respectively.

CONTEST:Sounds of the day.
SPONSOR:Nayda Ivette Negron.
16/07/2016.
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Be nearby me, get close to me,
my dear goddess
I want your tender mind
and spicy body next to mine.
Hold me close in a warm hug,
kiss my tears and  sorrows
While our two bodies tangle.
You touch my body with your fingertips,
Then slowly your lips get together mine.
I...

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Looking through the glass window
Visualizing in the dark clouds
Beside his lover’s bed
In a cancer department.

Comes back to her pallid face
He starts to whistle.
It’s a sweet loving song
That bound their young hearts
Since they were students.
The song of tomorrow’s life 
Under the nice bright sky.

The whistling paused...

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***  Angels Always Nearby  ***


“All day, all night.  Angels watching over me, my Lord.”
                          (an old. slavery...

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SPIRIT AND STONE &
A GREAT LAKE NEARBY

Her father was
a difficult contradiction,
annoyingly similar to a certain
type of teacher, minister or priest,
to a certain type of imam, rabbi
or occasional poet, a confounding
combination of spirit and stone,
a faith in the unseen somehow
beautifully draped over a granite
demeanor, almost comforting...

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The child sees blue skies
Raptors spread their wings nearby
His little heart cries...

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A tree with yellow
And gold leaves lives close, nearby
Glistening in rain
It produces an air of 
Fall in its supremacy

Russell Sivey...

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She felt dry inside,
past the time of blooms,
a lost petal pressed between lost pages
of a dusty book, stored among relics
in abandoned rooms.

Yet quietly nearby,
Hope, not with a boast,
trumpeting a victorious symphony
of vain promises of a life renewed,
hovered like a ghost.

She smiled wistfully,
"Love...

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i wish i didn’t* but
i have to get across town
so off i go taking the bus
that drives through a nasty ghetto
 
i’m shocked as i look out the window
to see several dismal characters
i can’t imagine the misfortunes
that has brought them there

they’re low, they’re high
or maybe...

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Stony slates of stone nearby
Concreted beautifully on each other
Now mighty mountain afar...

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