Best Opulence Poems
In Opulence You Lie and DreamIn opulence you lie and dream
Of nothing but your Harem Queen
Her honeyed eyes and silky thighs
Those sultry moans and sated sighs
You dream of touching rounded breast
Of dipping into lover’s nest
The scent of jasmine on her bed
You feel her kiss anoint your head
The giddy taste of...
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Categories:
opulence, love, sensual,
Form:
Epic
Gossamer Labyrinths' Agone OpulenceOnce agone moments in time
she was poetry in motion,
'til she pirouetted herself
onto dusty versed shelves
midst old clouded rhymes
...
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Categories:
opulence, age, dance, destiny, memory,
Form:
Imagism
Opulenceopulence
in my sails
~ titanic dreams
AP: 1st place 2020
Submitted on August 5, 2020 for contest STRAND COMPLETELY NEW (18) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - Honorable Mention...
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Categories:
opulence, confidence, dream, hope, surreal,
Form:
Haiku
October OpulenceOverwhelming, onset of October
Ogling old owls
Overjoyed with orange overgrowth
Overtakes obsidian opulence.
...
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Categories:
opulence, autumn, beautiful, imagery,
Form:
Alliteration
Opulenceflocks of blackbirds fly
against wispy pastel clouds
good morning Mother...
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Categories:
opulence, age, memory, miracle, nature,
Form:
Haiku
OpulenceWe saw some hieroglyphics
And some beaded Native art,
Some instruments of music
With their coolness off the chart;
The Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit
And some armor from the past,
All admired and enjoyed although
We zipped through kind of fast.
The only place we lingered was
Where varied rooms were staged
Showing how the...
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Categories:
opulence, grandson, today,
Form:
Rhyme
opulence in natureshimmery shining
opulence in nature
a cottonwoods leaves...
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Categories:
opulence, tree,
Form:
Haiku
Celebrating in Birthday Opulence
A-nother
N-atal
A-ctivity
M-akes
A-ll
R-ejoice
I-n
E-legance.
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Ana Marie G. Camposo)...
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Categories:
opulence, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic
Charles Baudelaire translation: Invitation to the VoyageThis is my English translation of "L'Invitation au voyage" ("Invitation to the Voyage") by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It's a poem he wrote for his soulmate...
Invitation to the Voyage
by Charles Baudelaire
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My child, my sister,
Consider the rapture
Of living together!
To love...
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Categories:
opulence, child, french, language, love,
Form:
Free verse
Faithless Faith“Bound by banks of time, a zillion years had passed before you and a zillion years yet to come; but in this timeline, we never met a GOD as he is a cup of delusion and so don’t fear the sacrilege, if you decide not...
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Categories:
opulence, faith,
Form:
Haibun