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Best On The Brink Poems

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Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: on the brink, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You Caught the Wind
I remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink...

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Categories: on the brink, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...

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Categories: on the brink, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Essence of Rose

In the twilight hours 
Out here on this ledge
I am filled
With the essence of Rose
As a gentle breath stirs
Her fallen petals
Strewn over
That long and winding...

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Categories: on the brink, death, life,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Crack Like Fissures
To The Brink For The Ink    Crack Like Fissures 


Another page scarred with ink.   Upon her page, I see red...

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Categories: on the brink, angst, beauty, dedication,
Form: I do not know?



Each Day Takes Its Turn
Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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Categories: on the brink, black african american, day,
Form: Carpe Diem
Loved and Lost -
To love
Is to remember
The touch of your hand
Your voice
When you called me cariad

My mouth remembers your kiss
The feel of your lips 
Sensual touch of your...

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Categories: on the brink, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Become
I close my weary eyes
I quake and tremble
The meaning of life losing its hold,
Losing its wonder
In this magnifying, mystifying Sadness

Where is the river, 
Where is...

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Categories: on the brink, age, crush, earth, emotions,
Form: Free verse
In His Bed
In his bed she lies in wait.
For when he returns he will surely sate.
The time in the shower was just a tease.
No time to savor.....no...

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Categories: on the brink, lost love, passion, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Her Eternal Sleep
The river flows, carrying her
Away from earth  out to somewhere---
Bird-music groans as  harsh wind blows-
Carrying her, the river flows.

The gulls above cry ,that...

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Categories: on the brink, death, grief,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Anyday and Sundays
Anyday and Sundays,
breathless with the word,
anticipation - he will show up.
  It is the shout of Jericho,
    as we walk out...

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Categories: on the brink, christian, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hero Code: Decoded
Enthralled by each panel, a world in my grasp,
Comic books whisked me beyond time's clasp.
Starlight's soft shimmer, on planets unknown,
Myths spun with heroes, on quests...

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Categories: on the brink, hero, imagination, literature, youth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Forgotten By Tomorrow
She stands at the edge of the precipice,
looking down towards her future.
The last tears that she will ever cry,
falling from her eyes, 
then falling into...

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Categories: on the brink, blue, cry, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Elemental Designs
ELEMENTAL DESIGN

Hydrogen to Helium
A fusion formed by gravity
A carbon-based delirium
Molecularly infinite energy

An ancient discipline known as alchemy
We’re consciousness - the explosion - amorous 
We dream...

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Categories: on the brink, heaven, moon, science, science
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Run Away With Me
Come run way with me to brink of make believe
Where landscape undulates to rhythm of my dreams
Come run away with me to gypsy’s golden glen
To...

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Categories: on the brink, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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