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Best Perilously Poems

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Premium Member Unknowing Hearts
Wrapped in the passion of the moment
 engulfed in a cascade of a emotion 
 carried by a gushing torrent of desire
 dancing on the...

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Categories: perilously, desire, love, youth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cold Feet
ice-shrouded tree limbs
tilt perilously groundward
sparrows have cold feet

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written November 15, 2022
syllables checked by PS
for "Winter Haiku Poetry Contest"
sponsored by Tania Kitchin

#20 on Best...

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Categories: perilously, bird, tree, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Glass Art
Frozen to perfect, stiff, fixed and fast, 
Forever replicating exact,
Transparent colours of love and beauty, 
Forever being abstract,

She’s a water kingfisher, with a purple song...

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Categories: perilously, art, beauty, growth, peace,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin
"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the...

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Categories: perilously, courage, muse, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Dancing Queen
My old bones swayed to the old tune
bringing back memories long forgotten.
My spirit rejoiced in exultation
of a ne'er forgotten loving excitation.
For you’re my Dancing Queen.....
...

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Categories: perilously, dance, love,
Form: Free verse



Don'T Be Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Do we dare decide to come to the aid of the big bad wolf? 
Once upon a time wolves thrived from the Arctic Tundra to...

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Categories: perilously, animal, creation, environment,
Form: Acrostic
Kaos In -Part 5- Final Part
Hate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's...

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Categories: perilously, abuse, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Surfer
"Soul Surfer" 


I bought some sea shell beads 
today, 
stood by the ocean 
while the half sharp winter wind 
washed 
through 
me 
and 
whispered stinging...

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Categories: perilously, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Castles In the Sand
Picture a man’s solitary stroll on a sandy seaside,
Early time of day, just a short time after low tide,
Water almost calm, gentle waves lapping the...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perilously, beach, child, cry, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Recurring Dream 2 No Talent
Recurring Dream – 2
No talent

Dreams come on the crashing waves of R.E.M. sleep.
They come from the darkest oceans of the subconscious deep,
whispers of time exhausted,...

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Categories: perilously, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doors
Doors

How fitting that the band’s name derived from Aldous Huxleys’ treatise
‘The Doors of Perception’ that purely aesthetic philosophical story of 
life through the window and...

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Categories: perilously, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Chaos Theory
chaos theory
hoping to figure out
what strange attractor
has placed his toys
so perilously near my feet

Published - American Tanka - Winter 2016...

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Categories: perilously, child,
Form: Tanka
Foes At My Feet
Each night I dutifully latch the door
To keep intruders firmly without.
I retire to bed feeling blissfully sure
I am safe from what they are about.

Then one...

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Categories: perilously, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Florida Ziziphus (For the Ode To the Endangered Contest Sponsored By: Amy Green)
Spiny stemmed buckthorn, sunlight shimmers tiny shiny leaves.
Even though in pastures you are mowed down like worthless sheaves.
Ziziphus celata, your family for thee still grieves.
Future...

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Categories: perilously, death, nature, recovery from...
Form: Rhyme
Promise Keeper
Yea, it's pretty dumb this thing of ours.
They say over time it sours.
With us its been quite different.
Anytime is time well spent.
Our desperation, like a...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perilously, absence, addiction, devotion, i
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs