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Best Oyster Poems

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Premium Member In Pursuit of a Promise
A promise should never remain silent.

In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.

For her love is 
an...

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Categories: oyster, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member falling like leaves -
oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
my heart with reprieves - the redolent
       leaves
remembrance of romance with...

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Categories: oyster, autumn, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick Form
A desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.

Having always been...

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Categories: oyster, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'

When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above 
infected ripples of time,
I question the 
chaos that claims
serenity through 
saline serenade 
of sirens, composed 
with midnight...

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Categories: oyster, black love, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Golden Essence
The oyster shell 

                     ...

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Categories: oyster, appreciation, beauty, father, inspiration,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Bathe In Liberty
Ariel eyes gaze towards sapphire seas.
Mermaids have no purpose in aquariums.
Yet so many struggle to escape shallow streams.

Sitting upon sandy shores,
depth of her emotions, reflect...

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Categories: oyster, analogy, change, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Mothers Heart
My heart is full of unbounded love
Bleeding sacrifice and pain 
Spilling over with devotion
pouring down like monsoon rain

With the vastness of the ocean 
It beats...

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Categories: oyster, daughter, emotions, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Only the Moon Understands
No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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Categories: oyster, angst, moon, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member - Striking Fear Home -
As the winds breathe heavily darkened within fury
Moaning filled with clouds begins speaking 
Through stormy turbulent assaults with waves that kill

A ballad is blown away...

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Categories: oyster, deep, fear, nature, power,
Form: tristich
Premium Member Make Me Whole - Potd: a Collaboration With Heidi Sands
Oh, precious one, I need you...
        Be the missing ying to my yang.
     ...

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Categories: oyster, desire, encouraging, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Red Hot Moon
It's there.....
There .....in the sky
Looking like
A bowl of rhubarb and custard

The fiery glow it emits
Looking like a giant fireball.....
Ready...to descend to earth
the moon in all...

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Categories: oyster, moon,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sea Scars
There’s a story here,

embedded within 

a righteous reef

of broken silence,

where scars remain

engraved on sea stars,

entangled between sand 

in empty oyster shells, 

reminding me

to breathe until...

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Categories: oyster, deep, life, sad, thank
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mermaid Melody
I was submerged in 
an ocean 
          of rants,
hiding the sparkles 
of my  
poetic 
...

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Categories: oyster, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teal Harbor
Idle porcelain boats 
are seagulls 
floating
on a teal harbor
blond moorings
cast like kelp
Sails stiff 
as egrets
glide slowly
toward 
a cerulean channel
Atop turtle islands
pastel cottages
are pearls gleaming
on oyster...

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Categories: oyster, beach, bird, boat, ocean,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member A Thing of Beauty
grit 

i n f l a m e s

narrative


valor

e m b o s o m s

hardship


sorrow 

e m b o s s e s

soul


oyster

c r...

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Categories: oyster, beauty, character, life, passion,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs