Best Persuades Poems
Love List
...Love
By Dane Smith-Johnsen
Love approaches and does not scare.
Love bears and does not let go.
Love cares and does not shrink.
Love declares and does not shun.
Love establishes and does ......
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Categories:
persuades, love
Form:
Free verse
Woman In Chains
...A band of gold
bound them together
At first Sue’s blissfully happy
but little by little
he starts controlling
every aspect of her life
eroding her self confidence
by criticising ......
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Categories:
persuades, abuse, relationship, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Sunken Treasures
...He speaks of sunken treasure
Draws maps to fortunes you may find
He writes it boldly as to where it may lie
Taking pleasures in his masculine pride
A gentleman cultivated in artistry
Loving lavi......
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Categories:
persuades, lost love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Cruel Ballet
...An open window frames a scene
Compelled obsession’s wistful sway
A metaphor imbues my dream
Entranced a moth, in porch lights gleam
Around it flits, a cruel ballet
An open window frame......
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Categories:
persuades, metaphor,
Form:
Villanelle
Poet's Poems
...People who spend their time devoted to poetry
Optimistic people who can be pessimistic as well
Elegant writers throughout society waiting ever so slowly and patiently to be known
Those who utter t......
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Categories:
persuades, art, imagination, inspirational, mystery,
Form:
Acrostic
Induced Interludes
...Induced Interludes
Twilight disrobes a soundless star
It claims some gentler theme from me
Caught lingering in a unified bestilled embrace
Beneath a unique spotlight of its gleaming afterglow
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Categories:
persuades, fantasy, metaphor, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Be Selfish
...A selfish man protects his family
like a guard,he contemplates the welfare
of his beloved family members,endures pain happily
THEY ARE A HAPPY FAMILY
A self ......
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Categories:
persuades, earth, world,
Form:
Free verse
Chimed Upper Room
...*Image of Hallmark Channel by Giphy.
Chimed Upper Room
Chimed new day shines...eagerly corrects an upper room looks,
An attic improving rapidly...promotes roams of dil......
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Categories:
persuades, happy, memory, sad,
Form:
Sijo
Slow Down and Enjoy Life
...The world persuades us to go faster
never to settle for an average speed
but eventually faster puts us off the road
proving nothing good comes from greed
The fast pace of life takes enjoyment
......
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Categories:
persuades, life, time, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Embrace
...
hearts tremble, shudder and break
beneath the dark gaze of dreaded mistakes
grief sends a message that life won’t forsake,
while bitter becomes sweet as gentle snowflakes
souls ......
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Categories:
persuades, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Sappho Translations
...Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
*
Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
S......
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Categories:
persuades, girl, girlfriend, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
The River
...River minnows
One of life’s sunshine days
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the warm grass
The river flowing passing o......
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Categories:
persuades, beauty, love, nature,
Form:
Shape
River Minnows
...One of lifes sunshine days
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the warm grass
The river flowing passing on its ancient meanderi......
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Categories:
persuades, beautiful, memory, light, summer,
Form:
Shape
The Heart of the Edifice
...The Heart of The Edifice
In the midst of the forest
Of skeletal trees, green cedar, pine,
and brush is the thickest
Standing so tall and blissful
Enduring weathering and ero......
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Categories:
persuades, age, endurance, home, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Giving Thanks
...Giving Thanks
Just thankful to be alive, and know the things that I know
Thankful for the sun that persuades the plants to grow from the seeds we sow
Thankful for the black women. Thankful for t......
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Categories:
persuades, birth, blessing, children, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme