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Best Nonpareil Poems

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Premium Member I Want Not To Fade Away
My one burning wish -
I want not to fade away
like rotten lace, dumped
onto a trash heap and forgotten.

I want to leave myself behind, 
for those...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonpareil, character, hope, identity, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



The Spry Metropolis
Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
Sangfroid merotomized and
Chrematistic--metro nonpareil.

See a...

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© David Hart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nonpareil, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Letter To My Mother
Realizing a fresh life growing inside, 
What thoughts coursed through your mind, 
I still wonder, oh dear my mom. 
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or...

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Categories: nonpareil, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nature Walk, Nature Talk
I was a zealous, blue patrol officer, preserving the safer public environments,
As black, diamond nights come in sequence, with the glittery enlightenments.

I helped to direct...

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Categories: nonpareil, beauty, community, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Thomas Kinkaid
quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)

i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
   and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
 ...

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Categories: nonpareil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy



Yeshua
The perfect man from Galilee,
The son of the most high,
Born in an unusual way,
By our mother,virgin Mary.
This had been declared
From the days of Abraham,Isaac and...

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Categories: nonpareil, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Pastoral
The Insignificance of Man
Blunt deadly weapons of mass destruction
electrify, fracture, and
jeopardize *****Sapiens
species (and entire biosphere)
continuity rent asunder

doomsday declared (nuclear winter
gallows humor spelt
with eternal snow day)
dystopian authors outflanked
nuclear...

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Categories: nonpareil, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Light Winged
“Light Winged”




fluid I freely flow
nacreous and immersed
beyond naology  

I am far removed
from the numbers
and rites

of your 
hard-edged, 
strange world 

the seconds 
stretch deeper and...

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Categories: nonpareil, celebration, i am, life,
Form: Ode
Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict
Das Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization

extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that...

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Categories: nonpareil, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse
The Amazing Spider
In the early morning view outside my window
Captured my attention to one spider spinning his web
Interesting to look at how he maneuvers and views
The radius...

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Categories: nonpareil, environment, nature, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas


Carols with uplifting lyrics thrill my heart,
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Silent Night.”
Reaching out to help the needy plays a part 
In this time...

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Categories: nonpareil, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
The Raven
On a dark, gloomy, depressing winter night
Something came that was to be such a sight
On my very life's blood it could surely draw
In it's black...

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Categories: nonpareil, faith,
Form: Lyric
Robert Frost a Reflection
Robert Frost...A Reflection

No matter corporeal essence
     of Robert Frost bid adieu
from temporal plain approximately
     five and fifty...

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Categories: nonpareil, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member A Decade To Remember
The world was a troubled place in the '80's, home to a number of disasters
   From the plight of Iran's hostages to the...

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Categories: nonpareil, basketball, magic, remember,
Form: Couplet
The Inception of Love
Remember, centuries ago we met
I'th' glorious garden of a hillock.
Then the morose sun was about to set,
And euphoric birds were flying en bloc.

Yonder the crimson...

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Categories: nonpareil, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things