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Best Overtures Poems

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Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: overtures, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overtures, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member In Your Embrace
In embrace of your love, blossoms my eager night,
Strumming themes romantic fervid passions recite

Invoked by scarlet-eventide glinting arc of twilight
As final breaths of dimming-day golden...

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Categories: overtures, romantic,
Form: Couplet
These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: overtures, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Water Themed Haiku
waves curling over
a shallow barrier reef
wanton overtures

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Contest: Water Themed Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Placed 3rd 
14th August 2018...

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Categories: overtures, sensual, water,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: overtures, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Percivals Promise!
The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance

Streaming with incresent colours towards life

Infinite within its parhelion possibilities

Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides

Whereupon all things...

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Categories: overtures, faith, life, love, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Jungfraujoch
Climbing slowly ascends a silent invitation to witness heaven on earth
Emerging in layers of allure, a rising pictorial lifts emotional grandeur
Bringing closer and closer dome...

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Categories: overtures, beautiful, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Soul Divine
A candle burns deep, in core of every soul,
A sacred flame, an ethereal halo of intellect,
A guide heavenly, a mystique that educates,
Defying overtures of egotism...

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Categories: overtures, inspirational, peace, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Operetta
Operetta

Opaline arias glow in moonlight
Shimmers in the whip-poor-will’s reminisce,
Opalescent anthems silvery delight
On the still waters, moonbeams leave a kiss.

Iridescent serenade sonatas
Echo across sleek undulating swells
Choruses...

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Categories: overtures, moon, music, night,
Form: Sonnet
Beneath the Faraway Stars
The tiniest of silver labrets amid the corner of her beautiful elixic lips, so full ~

With a small diamond shining and glittering, upon her perfectly...

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Categories: overtures, love, passion, romance,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Medieval Flutes
Medieval Flutes

Strings and lutes
Playing to my whims
She the student
I, the old one with musical overtures 

She knows, she knows
Myself captivated yet I cant let it...

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Categories: overtures, art, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thoughts On Infinity
Thoughts On Infinity

Infinity comprises that endless empyrean reach of a 
True continuous nature far beyond mankind’s ability 
To truly comprehend and appreciate the sheer magic
Of...

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Categories: overtures, allegory, god, heaven, imagination,
Form: Quintain (English)
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...

thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting...

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Categories: overtures, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Widowed
Do raindrops know
when dandelions cry
flowing flaxen feelings 
like honeysuckle hues
cuddling a marigold morning
Will weeping willows wake
parched parades of poppies
silted by searing seasons
stigmas of seedless seduction...

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Categories: overtures, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)

Book: Reflection on the Important Things