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Best Obeisance Poems

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Premium Member You Let the Moment Pass
Eternity within your grasp
My plea? To undo the clasp
Let Desire wash away
Tomorrow and yesterday
Every other thought and dream
Meaningless I make them seem
Had you let the...

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Categories: obeisance, leaving, sad love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tranquility
Tranquility has settled like a dove
Serenity and Peace have kissed in love
Contentment bides in place of sweet repose
and Beauty welcomes all with gifted rose

The Turbulence...

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Categories: obeisance, blessing, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Two Swans In a Pond
Two swans in a pond
In symphonic dance
Bowing to each other
Submissive obeisance

Meditating romance
On rippled vows
Rousing feathers
In flirting advance
Exchanging affections
In a wordless song 

Courting seduction
In dignified stance

A...

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Categories: obeisance, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What I Kneel For and What I Stand For
It seems that politics today invades nearly every aspect of life,
And creates forlorn misery, pitiful stress and needless strife.
We can't enjoy sporting events 'cause its...

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Categories: obeisance, america, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scene From a Bike Ride
Like a royal parade,
they waddled across
the well traveled thoroughfare
teeming with autos crawling to a stop;
otherwise road rage reduced to admiration.

The regal drake held his head...

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Categories: obeisance, analogy, animal, beauty, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Hunt
The moon plays at being the midnight sun
with abandon he struts across the sky
in such majesty it catches my eye
I bow in obeisance, my heart...

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Categories: obeisance, adventure, imagination, naturemoon,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Respected Poetess
She is Poet Laureate,Honored   ESTEEMED     Among old , young on the    SOUP
She is a Mother of...

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Categories: obeisance, family, friendship, lifepoetess, poetry,
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: obeisance, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Tribute To Women
To you, O women great, in obeisance, I bow,
For your primary forms of mother, sister, mate;
Full of love, patience, kindness and compassion, how,
The almighty has...

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Categories: obeisance, women,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Native American Son
On a grassy knoll silhouetted against the rising sun,
Astride his pinto pony sits a Native American son.
A majestic bronzed brave, feathers wafting in the breeze,
Arms...

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Categories: obeisance, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Rooster's Call
What can I say other than that I’m bound, bound by the rooster’s call. A clarion call of divine arrangement, calling me to duty and...

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Categories: obeisance, africa,
Form: Haibun
The Day
My snarling flash drive 
numbed my approach
as I drove fifty clicks
into the morning, still dark.
I did obeisance
to my tyrannical inbox,
it showed no mercy
to either side...

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Categories: obeisance, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ancient Cambodian Dancer -
In that meteoric moment
she exhibited eternal qualities of wonderfully wrought womanhood,
calm,disciplined and candid,
adorned with few distinctions from the rest behind her
the loving leadership was projected...

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Categories: obeisance, angst, integrity,
Form: Didactic
Cowboys and Indians
He pulls his hat down low against the chill of the storm,
The numb fingers that hold the reins forgot what it was like to be...

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Categories: obeisance, adventure, animals, art, cowboy-western,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Canto Xix Hell Translation
Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey

For gold...

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Categories: obeisance, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima

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