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Best Peony Poems

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Premium Member The Peony
She bent  softly over the smooth water
Her fingers gently caressing the blue
A peony clasped to her bosom
Its petals soft and pink and true...

The artist...

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Categories: peony, love, natureflower, flower,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: peony, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chasing Sandpipers and Gulls
I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peony, child,
Form: Haibun
Moving On
I'm not selling a house, i'm leaving my home.
Happy times together, months spent alone.
Morning sickness, baby loss, labour and birth
Planting my seeds in good strong...

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Categories: peony, child, emotions, family, garden,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Spring Sunrise
magenta pink sky
songbirds singing melodies -
peony opens...

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Categories: peony, appreciation, flower, spring,
Form: Haiku



Awaking From Stupor

When the enchanted 
jailors of life, 
siezed my soul 
and those
sepals unfurling
manipulative
manuscripts 
ceased to 
script a twinkle 
above screams, 
I became a 
slave to my...

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Categories: peony, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Hummingbird's Vanilla Haze
"Bonjour, in the cocktail woods"
I see the waffled leaves of teal trees painting pink moon, 
With diamond dahlia arcs, flowering an orchid boon
Sprinkling love of...

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Categories: peony, angel, deep, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Breathing Dreams
I sketch musky infernos with kohl ink
when dead wings of flurry moon lace my
copper blue lashes and ripples
of faith crash furthest seashores,
Draping stelliform-soul
in strokes of...

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Categories: peony, beautiful, deep, dream, imagery,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Petrichor Music
music
reminds my soul
of peony and rose
efflorescence petrichor scents.
Roaming among fountains of her blossoms,
lost in bucolic elegance.
Whispering sweet sighs
like verses for
music

ash smoke
brought drops of doom.
Was it...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peony, dream, romance,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member How Do You Feel
How do you feel
when you look to the skies..?

the cumulus inspired your innocent imagination
with playful marshmallow fantasies —
the sun peeked from behind
peony-puffs of airy white
to...

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Categories: peony, appreciation, feelings, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Smiles I Remember
I was an experienced family therapist, helping families maintain functionality,
As wandering, starlit seasons maintain all nature, being rooted in practicality.

I loved preserving healthy relationships, that...

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Categories: peony, family, fantasy, grief, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mother's Garden
 
I grew up amongst every kind of plant and flower,
Beyond our gate was the garden of dear mother;
This Eden was colourful, tangled and so...

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Categories: peony, flower, garden, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Liaison Dangereuse
“liaison dangereuse”



Tear a thin line 
along my skin
softly velvet
finger tips 
no nurses gloves

down my neck
along my throat
with something
sharp like words
on a tongue

like I’m
one of the...

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Categories: peony, addiction, senses, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Familiar
"The Familiar"



Softly ever so Softly 
on hardened paws
Nemesis 
follows the 
Red Apple 
scent of 
Her sword
 
a peony pink pocket flushed
velvet violent violet viola 
playing
warm...

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Categories: peony, dark, freedom, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Her Grace Amazes Me
Lilies and butterflies,
over pink pansies beauty flies.
Daisies linger in fields upon fields-
Who knew my sweet Monarch
my heart would steal.

She flutters over a purple peony,
and on...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peony, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme

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