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Best Periphery Poems

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Periphery
On a path laid as a snake,
Trodden down a winding wake,
Curls and slithers into night,
To thrones of ever-dimming light;
I hold still and gripped with feeling
In...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: periphery, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Verse



Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: periphery, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'M Here Because
I'm here because.....
I need you to believe in me
You...Yes, YOU!
My fellow poet..
You who understands
my love for words and their nuances
denotations, but even more...their connotations
their play...

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Categories: periphery, community, poetry, , cute,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Wooden People
In the far away island on desolate seashore
You build your desire castle of dream sands
You protect the fragile niche
From the breaking waves rolling to reach...

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Categories: periphery, analogy, feelings, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Forbidden Fairytale

I once was a
sea lavender star, 
soaked in sunsets, 
draping evenings
with soft yarns of
hydrangea haze ~
before you stole
me from those
sangria skylines like
a windswept wave,
and placed...

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Categories: periphery, betrayal, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Punctuated In Time
Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe

Ambidextrous clock with appalling...

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Categories: periphery, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Ascending Epiphany
I realize limitation
	Is an illusion.
My destiny is without
	Boundary.
		Looking,
Beyond death. Beyond the periphery 
Eternal Incarceration
Cosmic chaos is cooking...
	Infinite combinations
In infinite situations
Attuned yet unaware,
A universe of oppositions
Frequency...

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Categories: periphery, death, fire, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Cosmic Peace
Cosmic Peace

I have been wondering
Ever since you left us,
What were your thoughts 
That early morn?
You were silent 
While you lay quietly on bed.

For the past...

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Categories: periphery, absence, bereavement, emotions, father
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Heaven and Hell
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.

So great the span of...

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Categories: periphery, fantasy,
Form: Verse
Stalker
I embrace the nocturnal shade 
coiled beneath tangerine lamplight 
on the corner of the street 
in case a certain little lady walks by. 
I am...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: periphery, death, mystery, social,
Form: Blank verse
Heaven and Hell
Beneath a shroud in mystery
was built a monument sublime,
where flowed a river endlessly,
her flow kissed the periphery,
ignored the grasp of time.

So great the span of...

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Categories: periphery, writing,
Form: Verse
Panes of Glass
Panes of glass in my soul divide me from my past
Portals that serve as the windows into my future
Yet clearly distort the visions of my...

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Categories: periphery, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journey
“Floating on prayer hymn the journey isn’t construed amiss,
it takes life through the stillness of soul to the bay of bliss.” – Quote by Poet


The...

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Categories: periphery, analogy, destiny, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day When No Poetry Exists But You Write Stuff Down, Just Not the Real Stuff Aka Throwaway Words
There's no poetry in me
I'm empty
I'll make sweeping remarks
Change my mind
Keep it in 
Spit it out
Sink and fly
Gaze out in a daze
Lost beneath eyelids 
Too...

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Categories: periphery, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Saw God, but Now What
Line of inquiry:
“Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed is...

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Categories: periphery, anxiety, character, god,
Form: Free verse

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