Best Parch Poems


A World Without You

...The hands of June will soon scoop up this earth. 
Her palms will gently cup sunlight and rain.
The wind, her fertile breath, will warm the eves,     
yet here I’ll wake to feel her blush in va......

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Categories: parch, grief, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Food For the Soul

...What a difference the sun makes,
All the flowers begin to show,
And the meadows we pass
Are full of lush green grass,
While all of Earth takes on a warm glow.

Yet we know rain is also needed
......

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Categories: parch, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Once You Were My Song

...There was a season, precious was that time,
When you were my dawn of ebullient sunrise,
Song of my mornings, exuberance of spring,
Blossoming gleefully life’s verdant prairies
Whispering to dream......

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Categories: parch, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

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Wasteland

...Dust dry winds that leech and parch,
Skeletal soldiers that endlessly march
O'er barren sand and rocky crest,
Examples of nature's cruel jest.

Plants that bristle with vicious quills;
A land t......

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Categories: parch, philosophy, places, sad, cancer,
Form: Rhyme

I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe

...**Trigger Warning**



"I Knew Anne Silently - My Ravenous Poe" 

I knew Anne.
you’d think 
with a name like hers
she’d be able to find her way 
out of unchartered water......

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Categories: parch, dark, love, poets,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Desert Golfing

...When playing desert golf I parch easy
Which then means I don’t get pars easy
So when I am done
I hide from the sun
And play eighteen whole games of Parcheesi......

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Categories: parch, funny, games, golf,
Form: Limerick


Premium Member The Oval

...Racing the oval of tide
Watching the sun and moon collide

Riding on horses in the oval of fate
Saddling on courses in the ring of slate

Horses in breeds of colors and shade
Forces in creeds ......

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Categories: parch, courage, men, strength, women,
Form: Rhyme

Heat

...Flies, drawn to their only sustenance, cloud around my head.
In this cloudless desert sky  - blank, deep-arching cavern of thought  - 
Unblinking  sun stares down but this fire-bird will not fly,
Has......

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Categories: parch, adventure, water, water,
Form: Free verse

Monologue of Loneliness

...Monologue of loneliness

 

Do I still look like a man my dearest?
When I seek a bit of life and soul prays into orphan seasons


Could you paint the light of my eyes that parch?
Why you rem......

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Categories: parch, nostalgia, light, light,
Form: Lyric

Be

...BE

Be like the rain 
that moistens the parch land 
and revives the earth
Be like the wind 
that blows gently on hot days 
and gives comfort
Be like the water 
that quenches thirst 
and bri......

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Categories: parch, nature, simile,
Form: Free verse

The Hiccups of the Valleys

...The thousands of words pain of imagination which improvised the parch of life to itchy sky, the foods is mudslides to the sadden caskets of corpses lying unattended, in the morning where they monitor......

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Categories: parch, dark, emotions, tribute,
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Against the Sun

...
My spirit faltered once again, on the landing of the stair
Each step would lead me further still, from yesterday and you
I forced myself to walk awhile, and savor morning air
While hoping I ......

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Categories: parch, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Dear One

...I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moo......

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Categories: parch, beauty, cute love, for
Form: Rhyme

The Fallen Leaf

...Millenniums have I traversed through mists and thunder
Hovering above volcanoes, stretching through sea-caves
My passionate trips surfaced along the meander
Of mountain ridges, swaying......

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Categories: parch, funeral, garden,
Form: Sonnet

Unfinish

...A Dark Identity

Days into nights... time without time
Normalities of everyday life beckons to remain
Shadows with lights.... to find to define
I am he who goes by without a name

The world is only u......

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Categories: parch, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
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