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Best Northern Poems

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Northern Slaves
In the silent breathing of night,
treading through 
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...

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Categories: northern, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Daughter of the North Wind Sings In Soprano
In riming realms 
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes 
filled with zodiacal-light musings 
of ancient cosmic dust 
dancing in the arms of Sol..

windswept...

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Categories: northern, passion, snow, winter, woman,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
Courage of Youth, Battle of Ypres, Flanders Field
(A Tribute)

Tough as nails young man with a red right hand
red-fire and whiskey ran in his blood.
Courageous seed...

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Categories: northern, conflict, death, fate, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In the Stars
Written in The Stars 

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Two hearts bleached by the sun
        A poem's - fallen wish
   ...

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Categories: northern, fantasy, love, muse, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Land of Lights
A sweep of milky waves flood onyx sands
converging under endless summer skies
of northern lights in iridescent bands
Icelandic talismans of tales sublime.

A glassy sea of crystalline...

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Categories: northern, beauty, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Somewhere Over the Horizon
Deeply dive into my Southern border. .  again
again. .  border around my existence ever so deeply

Somewhere over the Horizon
love is met gently

Images melt...

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Categories: northern, imagery, senses, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Year Dwindling Down
Apple cheeked autumn eyes bashful skies, as

Yellow frocked summer says her goodbyes to fragrant
Earth's seeded spring, to wild bouquets
Arranged by careless care, for the
Roses and...

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Categories: northern, flower, nature, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Crying River
Crying River (The Untold Ballad) 

Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...

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Categories: northern, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: northern, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: northern, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Feigned Flames
The moon dances 
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns 
and thistles disguised
as...

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Categories: northern, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the Same Moon -3-Way-Collaboration-
~Under the Same Moon~

P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely...

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Categories: northern, friendship, lifeworld, life, love,
Form: Couplet
Opal Stars, Velvet Dreams
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My thirst now deep ~ I long to quench
to sip this periwinkle wine
In goblets cut of harvest moons
impassioned pleas now cast of time

Tender kisses ~...

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Categories: northern, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Sonata
"If you're really in love, appearances aren't important. The best house is the one you build in each other's hearts."
Jung Yu jin

Autumn's alliterations amplified an...

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Categories: northern, assonance, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mustard Seed
The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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Categories: northern, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet

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