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Best Niles Poems

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To the Princess of Niles
A friend introduced us
What can I say
I love and hate her
Each and every day

She knew we'd be perfect
One thing she forgot
Miles between us
Children we've got

Now,...

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Categories: niles, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme



I Am Africa
I held the stumbling humanoid,
Standing on two feet, scared as an alien
I am his cradle and his playground
Even before he was named *****Sapien.

Watched him...

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Categories: niles, africa,
Form: Quatrain
Refused To Die
I held the stumbling humanoid,
learning to stand on two feet- scared as an alien.
I was his cradle and his playground—
even before he was called Homo...

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Categories: niles, racism, slavery,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Elephant Never Forgets
Side to side in a flowing rhythm strides
rocking our enormous body and head, 
like a pendulum our long trunk swings side to side.

My family and...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: niles, animal,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Dear John Letter
by the time you've read this 
i'm afraid our ships may have 
already boarded i do hope 
you are not to ravished about
 
our departure...

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Categories: niles, goodbye, , western,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Africa
A place to be; a home to live,
Full of cultures and traditions,
rivers of live.
In crossing the Mediterranean,
‘criss-crossing’ the continent, you see…


A mountain of rivers,
running the...

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Categories: niles, nature, people, places, song,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Ubel
perhaps i should have looked away 
my mind takes me back to the general store 
of black liquorish sticks red cobble stone walk ways 
the...

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Categories: niles, dark,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
A Single's Net
A single’s net is cast
A single climbs the mast
To view a sea of profiles
Catching eyes, some color-blind

Some emails are soon returned
Some senders have not yet...

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Categories: niles, love
Form: Rhyme
The Blind Man From Mid-West Town
A blind man hailed from mid-west town
A mild but lonley clown
In search of love and happy times
A life so filled with rhymes

His friends would tease...

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Categories: niles, love, passion, romance, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Balance
the quaint balance that shadows who we are
comes through hidden channels from a far
while casting aside any sheer doubt
shall sometimes cringed with a faint pout

as...

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Categories: niles, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Wonderment At Existence Mine
Wonderment at existence - mine
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign.

With my scrunched  
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder precise circumstances 
that linkedin yours truly...

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Categories: niles, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Wanted
Mariah was quite the painter,
oil her favorite medium,
she didn’t do postmodern crap,
old masters showed how it was done.
She made her fame doing portraits,
liked to stream,...

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Categories: niles, abortion, child, evil, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
They Read Aloud To Each Other
We are in Lexington and it is 1847

Emilie laughs, and we smile,
and still we read aloud together.
Mr. Lincoln likes the Niles
Weekly Rigister--especially
and of course the...

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© Jean Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: niles, people,
Form: I do not know?
Mysterious
Mysterious



You are all that is not known or explained, the remains of explained, and kept secret yet, 

Uncontained, mysteriously maintains the mystery of loves name,...

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Categories: niles, loveheart, heart, love, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
Lady of the Nile
Beauteous lass Thy wounds are bleeding! 
Crowning crowning where thou go on? 
Mothers weep and babies  feeding
Crowds on crowds and trumpet blow on! 
Wearest...

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Categories: niles, beach, beautiful, dark, heart,
Form: Rhyme

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