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Best Nuanced Poems


Premium Member I Long To Write a Poem - Just Right
...I long to write a poem just right
Between the somber and the light
To tease the edges of a heart
To hook the reader from the start
Seduce them with a metered plea
A nuanced message: “follow me”
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Categories: nuanced, bullying, poems, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Heart Shaped Balloon
...I gave you a balloon,
It held my life inside.

Within a shiny rubber tube
components of my soul aligned,
a sign,
I became something new
for you...

Memories
Feelings
Ideas

Each speck
a......

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Categories: nuanced, allegory, health, inspirational, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rainbow Scales Beckon Me
...Going inward
Receiving moments of grace
While time unfolds
Touching your heart with my breath
An expansion
Doorways to enter

Each gift revealed through my willingness
Vulnerability my partne......

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Categories: nuanced, appreciation, beauty, childhood, dad,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Paling of Dawn: a Tryst In Interlude
...I rise when gilded starlight still replete the skies
Never have I beckoned hours of abstruse sleeping
I hear elegiac trills as a lone nightingale cries,
evoking memories that conjure tears of ......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuanced, imagery, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
...The poems I never wrote are exquisite
Deep clear pools that reflect and reveal their readers
Nuanced and subtle, full of symbols and hidden meaning
Peeling back new layers upon each return

The ......

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuanced, imagination, writing,
Form: Free verse
Nestled In Daydreams
...I'm nestled in daydreams, safely tucked in a halcyon haven
away from the stress that greedily feasts on me like a raven

My Utopian realm offers a peaceful kingdom; a sanctuary
where ther......

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Categories: nuanced, peace, perspective,
Form: Couplet



The Glow of Dawn's Horizon
...Daybreak usually greets me when it ascends each day.
Yawning, I drowsily rise from the comfort of my bed
as the horizon glows with colors in resplendent array.

Dawn announces, "The w......

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Categories: nuanced, morning, sun,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Fool
...The Fool sat listening as her sweet words filled the air
each nuanced syllable sending chills through his body,
each glance cast upon him, a moment of eternal ecstasy.

     Does this fool no......

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Categories: nuanced, loneliness, longing, love hurts,
Form: Verse
Elegy For Michael Jackson (3)
...Refrain:
You shimmering waves on the ocean blue
Dance not again, he cannot dance with you
You weeping forests where the winds wail too
Let your bright tears fall in the pool of dew
The world of ......

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Categories: nuanced, death, music, nostalgiadance, world,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Who Are We At Our Core
...An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to my fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,
w......

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Categories: nuanced, art, beautiful, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tryst in Interlude
...
I rise when gilded starlight still replete the skies
Never have I beckoned hours of abstruse sleeping
I hear elegiac trills as a lone nightingale cries,
evoking memories that conjure tears o......

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuanced, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jonquils
...And there they are
as if it were their duty to bloom
... like slow notes on a piano
from the depths of earth
suddenly rising
to fill the world with grace.
 
Much like writing a poem
a duty to......

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Categories: nuanced, flower, spring, writing,
Form: Free verse
Her Elegance Remains
...Her tender, delicate limbs
                rivaled a young Magnolia
Her every move, a nuanced sway
     Oh, the glory of youth
                    in its sympathetic day

As age and circumstanc......

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Categories: nuanced, age, beautiful, beauty, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ears To Hear
...
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing
          through the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17)

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I often wonder what we settle for
in texts handed down to ......

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nuanced, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Clued Into oneself
...An evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a  tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds ,
scuppered signpost to a fetid  human  compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,......

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Categories: nuanced, care, character, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry