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Best Phoenix Poems

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Premium Member Like a Phoenix
To live forever like the phoenix;
To re-taste the process of birth;
From the cleansing flames, to rise
Knowing death is no end;
An eternal soul
On a journey
May just...

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Categories: phoenix, appreciation, bird, birth, death,
Form: Nonet



Phoenix of Hope
Amid the white patches of that mauve gracious dusk,
I bask in an awaited dawn since I found myself from a lost world
to win over my...

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Categories: phoenix, hope, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: phoenix, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Wild Rose
This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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Categories: phoenix, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unforgettable
You are unforgettable 
never alone
No distance to far
a screen prayer or phone

You’ve always been strong 
I know by what I’ve read
It doesn’t matter
those things he’s...

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Categories: phoenix, betrayal, farewell,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member She Arose
She arose…
A phoenix out of a pile of ashes…
Out of abandonment
Out of hardships and constraints
Out of depression and sadness

She arose…
Out of cutbacks and setbacks 
Taking...

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Categories: phoenix, confidence, courage, endurance, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member History Rising From the Sea
Treasure from the sea
Golden doubloon
Sixteenth Century artifact
By ancestors hewn

Earth’s history lays buried
Beneath five oceans
As undersea tremors
Create violent commotions

Freeing from Spanish galleons
Precious metals, gemstones
To greet early...

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Categories: phoenix, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why a Poem Is More Than Ink On a Page
Why A Poem Is More Than Ink On A Page

Why a poem is more than ink on a page
its heart, soul and sweet treasure at...

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Categories: phoenix, appreciation, art, humanity, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letting Go
Sitting upon the shore
time seems to move so slow.
Watching waves I adore
as reflecting stars glow

Tonight this night is mine
just me and the mute moon.
Tepid breeze...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoenix, angst, introspection, pain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Dance of the Firebird
Dance of the Firebird

Rosita, sultry enchantress,
dazzling Andalusian firebird,
erotically she twirls, proud
like a phoenix flashing across the sky.

Flared ruffled skirt swirls,
in hues of red, orange, and...

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Categories: phoenix, beautiful, dance, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elements - Collaboration With White Wolf
Speak now for the sea, ancient bard that guides me.
Be the voice of its wisdom, washing away my tears.
Raise me and lower me, like an...

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Categories: phoenix, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sipping Coffee
Line of enquiry:
“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoenix, angst, mental health, spiritual,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Eucalyptus Elixir
If sky is a sea of 
fallen flowers
and dusty diamonds 
glazed in red,
I’ll unfurl the 
saffron sun within,
stretching sandalwood 
arms of serenity,
upon gardens of 
glistening...

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Categories: phoenix, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rekindled Love
Up on the sliding hill in the atmospheric river rain,
Captivating eyes of beauty, smile to me again.

Eyes full of rainy deluge, drenching in cold, over...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: phoenix, love, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Obsidian Plague of Midnights
In Spring there’s friendship that’s lasted through the Winter,
all those cold nights of salted drops and quilts of snow.
The obsidian plague of midnights, melancholic drapes,
but...

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Categories: phoenix, friend, grief,
Form: Haibun

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