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Best Palo Poems

Below are the all-time best Palo poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of palo poems written by PoetrySoup members


Palo Santo
The Wood That Smelt Good:
I adore your smoldering odor.
Your sniff makes my nostrils go gaga.
It's like someone threw a rose at my nose.
Whoops, got it...

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Categories: palo, crazy, fun, funny, silly,
Form: Burlesque



Last Dance and May I Have This Dance
Last Dance by Darren White

Oh be my heart for me when it stops beating,

My lungs to breathe thin air still far too chill,

My feet to...

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© Sara Ella  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palo, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Obeah Woman
The Obeah Woman

Heavy musty air reeks with the Obeah Woman’s pungent perfume, 
sweat, burnt incense, bitter roots, and swirling black smoke,
dim light from a waning...

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Categories: palo, magic, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The 12 Days of Yuletide In the Desert Southwest

                 On the first day of yuletide my dear...

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Categories: palo, christmas,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Rivers Cross the Sky



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Categories: palo, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Last Dance
Oh be my heart for me when it stops beating,
my lungs to breathe thin air still far too chill,
my feet to dance the world while...

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Categories: palo, dance, emotions, farewell,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Life In the Desert
Through the door of the adobe shelter
while sacred Palo Santo scent rises and wafts
to greet the coyotes as they yip and yelp
in praise to their...

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Categories: palo, environment,
Form: Free verse
Pyar Ka Ehsas
PYAR KA EHSAS
suni si wo jindagi , jisme na koi chah aur na wo pyar ka ehsas
badte rahe jindagi me,jis trah kaat rahe the hum...

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Categories: palo, feelings, happy, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
Yeh Ankhein
dil ki juvan tumse he bolti hain 

sare raj dil ke tumse he kholti hain 

sona to main bhi chahti hu 

per meri nendon ke...

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© Rajni Bala  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palo, anniversary, books,
Form: ABC
You Make Beautiful Things
Usually, I just pass by
with a glance, read their
life story without making
eye contact so my wallet 
doesn’t feel sympathy,
but this time, his cardboard 
sign screamed...

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Categories: palo, caregiving, depression, faith, food,
Form: Free verse
The Cowboy That Never Rode Home
In the palo verde and black chaparral lies,
A cross by an empty grave where no one cries.
It notes the lonely death of a man named...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palo, cowboy-western, death, life, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Homestead
Misshapen limbs of the Palo Verde trees add an artistic touch to the landscape. While 
Honeysuckle twine about the old rail fence and the spiny...

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Categories: palo, old, winter, old, winter,
Form: I do not know?
A Silent Little Prayer
you sped by and I glimpsed your face
your stuff all packed for your quick getaway
you've tried before but it didn't take
a fool never learns from...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palo, introspectionheart, heart,
Form: Couplet
Indian
Sundar Pichai-CEO of Google.
Satya Nadella-Chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
Arvind Krishna-Chairman and CEO of IBM.
Shantanu Narayen-President, Chairman and CEO of Adobe.
Ayapal Singh Banga-Chairman and CEO of...

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© Ace Abad  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palo, appreciation, business, december, grandson,
Form: List
Premium Member Shadows Brink
I feel a shadow pass through me
as I sit and watch the wind,
play among the Palo Verde,
each limb that twists and bends.

The shadow took more...

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Categories: palo, depression
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs