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Best Perplexed Poems

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Premium Member Fearful and Perplexed
Fading sun elaborates
Tuscan yellow tinges
As vibrancy floats
Lavender on periwinkle
Embossing clouds 
In shades of amethyst

Granting scenic vision
Atop the red bridge
Suspended in perpetuity
From vermilion towers
In resplendent posture

Sounding...

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Categories: perplexed, nature, suicide, sunset,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where the White Rose Blooms
The single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...

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Categories: perplexed, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: perplexed, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

     ...

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Categories: perplexed, life, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: perplexed, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Delusion
Opulent the full moon glowed
Flooding light on a rocky road;
Casting down his gauzy veil
Luminescent to probe the pale.
Misty soft the shadows went
Into the secret sacrement;
Where...

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Categories: perplexed, moon, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: perplexed, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To My High School Math Teacher
Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: perplexed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member What Is This Dance
What is this dance that we do?
First you spin me; I twirl with delight
Captivated by your attentive gaze
Then you back away as I move toward...

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Categories: perplexed, confusion, dance, relationship,
Form: Lyric
The Foreign Diplomat
While campaigning among South American civilians 

he got news of the death of three Brazilians

        He said he...

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Categories: perplexed, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Covidius
A traveling newcomer
explorer of worlds
adventurer
across the seas
from galaxies a far
new universes
such beauty and wonder
a grand tour

earth seems like a second home
breathtaking landscapes, scenery 
diversity
birds and...

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Categories: perplexed, community, death, education, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly...

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Categories: perplexed, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Doors
‘Enter and explore’ read the sign above Blake’s Hall.    
Sliding open the French doors I stepped inside
where I was greeted by a...

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Categories: perplexed, color, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Bush Fire
A BUSH FIRE  
               
One scorching afternoon,
A sudden splintering sound...

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Categories: perplexed, animal, fire,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing More Than a Pretty Smile - Repost
Nothing more than a pretty smile - repost

There she was chasing a rabbit 
with 1 am coffeecakes and weak tea
She didn’t notice I was watching
from...

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Categories: perplexed, adventure, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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