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Best Overture Poems

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Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: overture, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Ode To Spring
The light breaks free from winter’s bone
to cast its warmth; to life atone,

to warm the dark; to thaw the chill,
to synthesize through chlorophyll,
a dormant seed...

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Categories: overture, allegory, analogy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drenched In One Another
Yes I can still see her...

through rose colored glasses,

imagined!

In fact,

She is gorgeous.

I remember saying...

or at least thinking out loud

...You take my breath away,

She was a...

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Categories: overture, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member White Carnations and Red Roses
Sweet fragrance of moist dew seeks to transpose
white carnations, baby's-breath,  red roses.
Heartwarming blooms called upon to compose
striking overture, fond bridal poses.


White carnations, baby's-breath, red...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overture, flower, nature, rose,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Flowers and Champagne
Fragile Fabulous Finessed Fragrance
Luxurious Lavish Lasting Loveliness
Overwhelming Optimistic Overture
White Wintry Whimsical Whisper 
Elusive Enamored Enchantment
Relentless Romantic Rhythmic Reverie
Stunning Sentimental Sensuous Seduction

Absolute Adorable Addiction
November Nightfall Nurtured...

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Categories: overture, appreciation, celebration, flower, happiness,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member The Sea Storms Lullaby
In the rocking, rolling surf I picked up a random seashell,
And just listened to the sea storms lullaby, the curling of
Spray urged a hushed soft...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overture, adventure, beauty, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romance Day and Night
Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...

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Categories: overture, romance, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Jingle
Jingle!
She has a bracelet on    Hear it?
Jingle!
When she tells her friend how concert-hip she is it
Jingles!
Quaking little cupids. trolls and other creatures...

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Categories: overture, funny, life, music
Form: Free verse
The Dove Won'T Rest Until Peace Comes Home
The wings beat against the cage 
in an urgent frenzy tormented never defeated 
within this half twilight zone of slow crawling time held victim 

The...

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Categories: overture, courage, emotions, endurance, relationship,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Dove Won'T Rest Until Peace Comes Home
The wings beat against the cage 
in an urgent frenzy tormented never defeated 
within this half twilight zone of slow crawling time held victim 

The...

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Categories: overture, bereavement, conflict, emotions, feelings,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member September
September morn flutters its bright wings
Radiant colors of love and joy it all brings
Never just a dream
Drizzles fuse with summer air in delight
Rainbow looms are...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overture, dedication, seasons, september,
Form: Tail-rhyme
* Imagine.... ~
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Reformations amities amid poetics tour de force overture within, virtuoso's....

Fatalisms exuberant pas de deux; foreordained this ballet in exquisites verse

To cross dimensions of spatial extent;...

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Categories: overture, faith, love, passion
Form: I do not know?
The Moon and I
Goosebumps and all
I lay
Under a bed of stars
Sparkling across the night sky like a diamond mine

Chinese Lanterns in the sky, hanging far from my reach
To...

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© Laura Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overture, hope, life, love, nature,
Form: I do not know?
A Father's Echo
The arrival of his departure 
(A numb and cruel upheaval starter)
Was an emotional core rupture;
A final goodbye to her father.

She saw his final, last inhale,
That...

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Categories: overture, bereavement, death, devotion, father,
Form: Rhyme
The Black Sheep
Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through...

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© Lee Price  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overture, confusion, friendship, people, sad,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs