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Best Old Poem Poems

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Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: old poem, love, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: old poem, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: old poem, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
Night-Blooming Jasmine
Night-Blooming Jasmine 

expert seducer with soft silky lips, silver blue moon
sweetly kisses a slumbering beauty awakening desire;
greeting her lover, Night-Blooming Jasmine unfolds perfumed petals

11-02-2015

Contest: ...

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Categories: old poem, beauty, flower, moon, nature,
Form: Sijo
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: old poem, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Under the Willow Trees
A path strewn thick with ruddy-faced leaves
led to nowhere and everywhere in fantasies, 
our near-death rescue from boredom 
      ...

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Categories: old poem, childhood, death of a
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: old poem, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landscape
Just as the moon
rises each night
and even as snow
is caressed by its light,
then glowing, I'll rise,
becoming your dawn,
your curved sleeping form 
to smile upon.

With eyes...

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Categories: old poem, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Debutante's Ball To Remember
A Debutante’s Ball to Remember

In the autumn of my life, oft have I recalled that superb summer night,
when I finally experienced my long-awaited heart’s delight.
Family...

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Categories: old poem, celebration, dance, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman,
     she looks beyond the surface of
        ...

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Categories: old poem, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Simple Man, Just Striving To Have a Simple Soul
Simple Man, Just Striving To Have A Simple Soul

There was no great air of mystery about him
tho' kind, too much of his life had been...

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Categories: old poem, death, deep, endurance, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkest of Days, When His Ship Finally Came Home
Darkest Of Days, When His Ship Finally Came Home

A wicked chill, even her house could feel its creep
Tho' silence would not hear its horrific demands.
A...

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Categories: old poem, art, death, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Treasure of My Soul
I held an angel in my arms today,
A precious babe snuggled against my breast.
And my heart was overwhelmed with so much love,
As she lay contentedly...

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Categories: old poem, baby, granddaughter, joy, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Free Spirit
She is a free spirit rebellious and wild
She’s changing so quickly – no longer a child.
Determined, impulsive, she gets into fights
She wants independence and quotes...

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Categories: old poem, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dr Suess and His Shoe Store
"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
               ...

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Categories: old poem, children, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs