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Best Olden Poems

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Premium Member The Best Poem Ever
~The best poem ever~

Without saying a word I’m going to go where no one has gone before.
A twilight zone, only God and I know of....

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Categories: olden, death, words, heart, heart,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: olden, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: olden, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Cosmos Configurator
When I gaze far off into the night sky
The chaos is not pleasing to the eye.
Seems there was never an overall plan
When the beginning of...

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Categories: olden, fantasy, space, old, star,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Last Stand
An ancient twilight tree now stands alone
with weakened cries of olden creak and groan;
winter’s rattling winds do rise and shake it - 

in stark silhouette...

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Categories: olden, age, death, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Token Gesture
It was a token gesture
A hand he offered me
Emerging from my cab
Stormy night in the city

I didn’t know his name
But I’ll not forget his face
For...

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Categories: olden, appreciation, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Deceit's Receipts
The breadth of breaths a breast can heave
          Dark depths so delved as falsehoods leave
 ...

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Categories: olden, angst, conflict, dark, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Lifting the Fog
Like milk from blue mountains' swollen breasts, the fog
Intertwines with pungent campfire smoke, a blue mist
Frescoing my quiet river valley's primeval lap.
Twilight tiptoes, surreptitiously, spying...

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Categories: olden, earth, love, moon, mountains,
Form: Acrostic
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently...

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Categories: olden, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Smiles Follow You
The golden hour for rising has arrived, and there are violet roses in the sky,
So, I bid hello to you, my robust friend, as the...

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Categories: olden, fantasy, imagery, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Spirits Leap To Touch Autumn's Splendor
Spirits Leap To Touch Autumn's Splendor

When small fires and hot soups are needed,
We think to leave behind great summer greens
Looking back at crops long ago...

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Categories: olden, august, autumn, color, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Much More God
 

I will look to times no more, 
to this girl of eleven;
to the old house on the perfect street,
I loved it there, we loved...

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Categories: olden, childhood, memory,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Hidden Maestro
I was a professional, melodic dance instructor, at the flowery prime of the art,
And I taught its various, elegant styles, sweet joy of valuable living...

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Categories: olden, career, dance, fantasy, magic,
Form: Couplet
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall 
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly...

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Categories: olden, heartbreak, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Unicorn Forest
In the thickets glen beyond the forest wild
Lies the realm of the mystical unicorn,
Beauties elegance in motion, gracefully
Prancing with each delicate gallop forward.
She is queen...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olden, adventure, beauty, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things