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Best One Time Poems

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Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: one time, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member To Be One
Speak in my dark night
   Color your quiet words
      without sight

Touch my wide open eyes 
  ...

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Categories: one time, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Child's Eyes
The innocence lost so long ago
The undying faith we used to know
The gentle rain of a summer's skies
You can find it all in your child's...

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Categories: one time, children, world, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dawn of My Heart
Ordinarily I lie in my bed
mentally grasping for any slender thread of slumber
which I can possibly find to cling to!
But there was one time -
a...

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Categories: one time, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Autumn
Today I really feel it; I feel it in the air,
and even though I still can feel sun’s glow,
the breeze is blowing cooler through my...

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Categories: one time, autumn,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)



Premium Member Kitten In the Barn
It’s always a good practice when living on a farm,
To have a family of cats living in the barn
They always keep the rats and mice...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one time, cat, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
My Gift of Tears
Leave you my tears?
I think you already own them . . .

They sparkle in dew on the grasses,
on your windows they cling to look in;
They...

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Categories: one time, lost love, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Campfire
If ever there’s a campfire, rekindled as the sun goes down,
where ghosts of articulated writers, return and gather ‘round;
raise their glasses to a toast to...

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Categories: one time, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Continuum
Life, an infinite continuum
feeding on its own death,
and we, self glorified in its midst,
on knife's edge of infinity,
daydream reflections of time,
mirrored images that seem like...

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Categories: one time, life,
Form: Free verse
Birds Eye Self Surveillance
Theres a man in the sky, can you see him hiding, crouching behind the grey mist rising. 
Thunder and lightning seems to guide him to...

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Categories: one time, 7th grade, blue, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Omnipotent: He Knows All
OMNIPOTENT: HE KNOWS ALL


I know today, at this time
You... my son(man), may not wholly know me. 
but, may I ask you...

Have you   taken...

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Categories: one time, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Old Ball Game
When I was a child,
summer at my Aunt Joanne’s
meant staying out as late as it took the sun to set!
And mostly with my cousin Chris,
I...

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Categories: one time, baseball,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Lady Death
"LADY  DEATH" ------Chaos!!!

Craving life was all of 'HOPE' desire.
Torturing her into the odyssey of Hells fire.
Ending her in heartbreak by her own insane,
cruel father...

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Categories: one time, dark, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Epic
In My Mother's Eyes
In my mother's eyes I see my hero
I know fear is far at bay
In her words I feel protection
In her smile I see my face

Because...

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Categories: one time, mother, prejudice,
Form: Lyric
Cloudless Skies
Looked out my window this morning
Damn.. another cloudy day
Falling further and further behind 
This life's become all work, no play
Where the Corporation is heaven
Our CEO...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: one time, angst, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things