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Best Ober Poems

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Premium Member To Heather Ober
The sweet girl’s name is Heather
Wispy…light as a feather
She read my first rhyme
She thought it sublime
Her words bring sunny weather

Straight off she made me a...

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Categories: ober, tribute,
Form: Limerick



The Return
The air is thick with memory -
A fog of reminiscence.
Or is it simply mist 
Rolling through the window? 
I feel the wind and taste the...

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Categories: ober, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 48-54 Strolling Along Palm Beach
palm trees silhouette
against ocean's pastel hues
sunset's soft glow


misty horizon
oceans seperate his palm
from my tear
 


my floating sandal-
tumbling waves break
upon the shore



floating bubbles
before i tossed my...

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Categories: ober, beach,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member In the Aftermath of Love and Tragedy: Heloise and Abelard
"Then there is no more left but this, that
in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall be no less 
than the love we two...

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Categories: ober, love, sad, love, moon,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member With Fondness
My dear Beloved,

Night owl hoots at me again
beneath a ramp of clouds,
like cozy pillow to my moon 
pinching this letter with anticipation
to tuck my ruffled...

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Categories: ober, absence, love,
Form: Free verse



16 Days of Activism Against Woman and Child Abuse
S ober your mind and clear the mist of ignorance
I mmediate reaction is required to gang up against perpetrators 
X enial approach is needed to...

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Categories: ober, abuse, anxiety, prejudice,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member To My Dearest Most Only Beloved
My Dear Precious Pearl,LENORE, I know it has only been a week since last I Wrote.
 Today I write to whisper my words of LOVE...

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Categories: ober, first love, love, wife,
Form: Narrative
Early Spring
*A Collaboration

The snow that shrinks in the glen and the wood 
Would gladly stay through the spring if it could.

While clouds have flown to free...

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Categories: ober, spring, spring, easter, snow,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In Search of You
Day one; I leave the coast following the great black river.  Its meandering slow water sneaking slowly and silently past the ancient pines and...

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Categories: ober, nature,
Form: Haibun
Underwater Prayer
Immerse me Lord beneath the salty sea
send me bubbles of love that sparkle blue
Shoot me to the top aqua pure and free
As I plunge so...

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Categories: ober, beautiful, courage, devotion, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member After the Rainstorm
The rain had started lightly as graceful drops on the windows.  It was
peaceful and tranquil and it made me want to meditate and closing...

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Categories: ober, garden, nature, rain, storm,
Form: Haibun
Lost Love and Eternal Love
Lost Love and Eternal Love

In the summer we'd meet and we'd sip iced tea,
and the waiter saw kisses as people passed;
as I whispered my feelings...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ober, love, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Snow Joke - For Dodoitsu Contest
Snow Joke - dodoitsu


Demon clouds ride icy winds,
cold unfeeling harbingers,
blowing dead the flames of warmth’s
wingless snow angels.



11/5/2015

submitted to – Winter Dodoitsu – Poetry Contest
sponsor –...

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Categories: ober, betrayal, metaphor, winter,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Flights of Passion
You give me a lift
to those heights I once dreamt of.
You support me in your warm embrace
and the heat comes through the silk and lace.
I...

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Categories: ober, passion, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Here Comes the Sun
Here comes the sun

In this cold place I know so well
Waves of warmth have finally come.
So I’ll wait with my tale to tell;
Over my world,...

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Categories: ober, love,
Form: Quatrain

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