Best Nuanced Poems
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
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
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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Categories:
nuanced, imagery, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
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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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
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
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
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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Categories:
nuanced, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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
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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Categories:
nuanced, faith,
Form:
Sonnet
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