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Best Performs Poems

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Premium Member Adrift In Fiction
Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.

Oblivious to the storm,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performs, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose



Premium Member When the Piano Bleeds Pain
It's 3 am,
her pillow soaked in regret.
Loss has left her spirit lonesome,
darkness a definition of insanity.

In the silence of the night,
vexatious voices vibrate inside
her somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performs, angst, lost love, love
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Tears Of A Pierrot
Porcelain chalk white mask
  moves with silence of mime
that hides a lovelorn face
 moonstruck by orbs of light
with shadows to embrace.

Porcelain chalk white mask
...

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Categories: performs, love, sorrow,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: performs, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That's Some Trick
Bewitched again by autumn's laggard spell
Like alchemy, green leaves are turned to gold
Although the summer still has dreams to sell
I watch fall's silent sorcery unfold

Brisk...

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Categories: performs, autumn, fun, magic,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Element Water
It took place shortly after   and the stage was set
before words      before ink     ...

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Categories: performs, allegory, allusion, bible, deep,
Form: Free verse
Rhyme God
Enter the Everest that devastates 
as he never ever rests and demonstrates 
his quick wit picnic of traits that place 
with lickety split flicks on...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performs, slam, smart, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Misdemeanor
MISDEMEANOR 

A soft lisp runs through blonde summer grasses,
shoving at kites or the hems of long skirts.
Umbrellas and hats stir as it passes, 
jumbling at...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performs, nature, wind,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member My God
He’s bigger than the mind 
Can think or comprehend 
He’s bigger than the heart and soul
He knows everything 

He’s greater than the miracle 
That He...

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Categories: performs, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Position Impossible Ii - Collaboration With Jan Allison - Bawdy Warning
Aunt Ethel said to Uncle Fred,
Let’s attempt the starfish in bed,
Old Ethel insisted,
Till Fred’s back got twisted,
They best stick to sleeping instead!

Original poem by Jan...

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Categories: performs, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Mouse In the House
A most unfortunate event
has occurred at our house.
It's embarrassing to admit,
We have a resident mouse.

The elusive little devil
has avoided every trap.
Though set in various places,
we've...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: performs, animal, cat, pets,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Honor of You -
Invited into Her circle
of five points,one for each
of the qualities She crystallizes,
truth as fire, earth as nourishment,
body in water, lights in air, and ether as...

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Categories: performs, devotion,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Mr Bungo
Zany and free spirited, Mr. Bungo is a one man show
Yodeling any song you like, doing the "old soft shoe"
Xenial to one and all, he...

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Categories: performs, children, fun, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Collection
New dawn
Lights the catwalk
Nature performs her show
Land wears the new season's fashion
In reds...

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Categories: performs, nature, seasons
Form: Cinquain
Winter Hues
Drinking morning dews from grass; sun looks healthy,
Housing red yellow rays, sky looks lovely and pretty.

Mountain stands strong wearing deep green garment,
Within white Kans grasses,...

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Categories: performs, seasons, winter,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs