Best Permitting Poems


Premium Member Bathe In Liberty

...Ariel eyes gaze towards sapphire seas.
Mermaids have no purpose in aquariums.
Yet so many struggle to escape shallow streams.

Sitting upon sandy shores,
depth of her emotions, ......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permitting, analogy, change, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Rudiments of Wings

...For holding things, two arms have we -
two arms with hands with which we have been blessed.
Two only – we’ve no need of three.
Two arms to reach with or to cross beneath our chest,
and in two......

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Categories: permitting, angel,
Form: Quintain (English)

Premium Member Spiritual Moment

...“Mystic Moment with you”

A natural look of who I am on the inside.
A reality check of who you are on the outside.

A mirror facing west makes the difference in you and me.
Open your eyes and s......

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Categories: permitting, anxiety, courage, fantasy, giving,
Form: Rhyme

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Scarlett

...Scarlett thought she was promised permanent security. 
Satchels of resilience bound her fragile wrists. 
Woodland deities hailed her.
Underworld demons feared her.
The curious townsfolk simply st......

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permitting, irony, sad love,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Rain

...Last time it rained was in April.
                                      It did not rain that much, 
                            but it was enough to dirty everywhere. 
                            ......

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Categories: permitting, rain,
Form: Haibun

Those Who Are Now Elderly Sit and Reminisce

...Those who are now elderly sit and reminisce
of sweet idyllic days which often they miss.
Sitting as families in beaming abodes
whilst a flickering fire dances and glows
Cosy nights in with cards ......

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Categories: permitting, childhood, family, life, loss,
Form:


Premium Member Use All of Me

...USE ALL OF ME


Father God,
Kindly use all of me today...
Again, I say to You God---
 use all of me today.

I am no preacher God 
but allow every word that comes from my m......

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Categories: permitting, character, christian, inspiration, prayer,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium Member Why Am I Missing You in Wyomissing?

...Why am I missing you in Wyomissing

In Wyomissing where WiFi waves warp Whitman's words
I'm wiki-wishing scrolling through digitized déjà vu
Mississippi .mp3s Mississauga .gifs Missy Elliott remi......

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Categories: permitting, heartbroken, lonely, loss, love,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Or Would We

...Oh, Lord, I think we need a magic knob
that's somewhere on one arm discreetly placed.
When activated, it would softly throb,
alerting us to nearby pain it traced.
At this time, we'd adjust our hi......

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Categories: permitting, humanity, pain,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Shape-Shifting

...Were I adept at shape-shifting
I would avoid shadow-lifting
And eschew re-gifting,
I would spend more time sifting
Through forms more befitting
And most likely give up babysitting!
......

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Categories: permitting, fantasy, fun, silly,
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member Collective Guilt Lm

...‘What good´s permitting some prophet of doom? To wipe every smile away …’


The orator grins at his drunken audience through make up and mask

Opens the cabaret’s veil in the theatre of forsaken......

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Categories: permitting, history,
Form: Free verse

The Earth Is Alive

...When walking barefoot trough the grass you will feel a tantilizing tingle.
Connecting your soul to the earth is advised permitting your toes and grass to mingle.
The earth transfers energy thro......

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Categories: permitting, courage, love, peace, power,
Form: Rhyme

Mark of the Beast

...Undoubtedly a microchip 
Or something else 
Implanted in the right hand
Or in the forehead,
And this is the mark
Of the beast 
His name and number 
The number of a man 
Six hundred and sixty ......

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© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: permitting, bible, future, truth,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Love Has Won

...

“Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I i......

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Categories: permitting, blessing, christian, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse

Life Is But a Dream

...Is this life but a dream? 
I once wondered to myself, in this life
Will we really find true happiness,
A place to which we can escape,
A place where there are no worries of the future,
Where we,......

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Categories: permitting, adventure, celebration, child, dream,
Form: Sestina
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