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Best Platonic Poems

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Premium Member The Plate Tectonics of Platonic Histrionics
Sometimes extraordinary earthquakes radically rearrange the landscape
Sometimes continents collide, violently vying for the same space
Sometimes the savanna becomes a mountain range dividing two valleys

Sometimes your...

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Categories: platonic, love hurts, relationship, teen
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Ringing Sea
 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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Categories: platonic, appreciation, beach, blue, character,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Special Memory
It has been the slow and steady race of life
To emulate the tortoise and not the hare
Using failures as stepping stones to success
Not success but...

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Categories: platonic, memory, , literature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Evolution of Learning (Part One)
It amazes me how much man has evolved
Yet, How little he has learned
All around the globe
Millions die of disease and starvation
While the ever so intelligent...

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Categories: platonic, history, life, loss, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falsifying Truth
The concerned politician was running for re-election
   But a very cool, steamy sex scandal he struggled to hide
He used his thick, bald head...

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Categories: platonic, confusion, politicalwife, love,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Mystic Valley of Dzoku
While rambling like a vagabond in a seraphic poetic submersion, in a remote region, witnessed the most captivated sight ever, 
a sleeping valley rippled in...

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Categories: platonic, adventure, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fiesta of Cherry Blossom
Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the...

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Categories: platonic, celebration, nature, paradise, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Missing Chris
I reminisce, I miss
My beloved friend Chris

If only just once more
We could stroll ‘round the block

On evenings beneath starry skies
Chris sang, “Strangers in the Night”

But...

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Categories: platonic, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Interrupt the Music
Dissonance is delegating the intensity in my eyes
Minor chords unveil the passion my body can’t belie 
Eighth notes are lightning sparks that burn my finger...

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Categories: platonic, love, musicme,
Form: Rhyme
He
Men cannot be trusted
emotionless and hardened,
They tend to be aggressive
Then thoughtlessly are pardoned.

Promiscuously driven 
With ego swelling large, 
They're loud, endowed and over proud
And in...

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Categories: platonic, for her, for him,
Form: Rhyme
On the Other Side

Beyond the blue ... 
sailing past the farthest tearful kiss blown
Hoping for clear skies ahead,
as my Aussie eyes see wallaby clouds
joyfully jumping by

From Perth to...

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Categories: platonic, happiness, joy, perspective, places,
Form: Romanticism
We Became
Love possesses a soul of it's own,
organic and autonomic
It propagate waves of attraction,
moving strangers closer to the sphere of friends
Thus you and I became ...
Feeling...

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Categories: platonic, love, relationship, romantic, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Friends of a Summer Night
Buried deep between the cracks,
a photograph from yesterday,
I hold it now, within my hand,
as if between the hills and hollows
a childhood bond that we once...

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Categories: platonic, child, childhood, friend, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Vulnerable
It has happened again,
your true feelings are once more exposed
Vulnerable
Out in the open,
where your heart can be attacked
Anxiety ridden,
palpitations increase
Got an overwhelming urge to flee,
and...

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Categories: platonic, angst, anxiety, life, psychological,
Form: Free verse
What Is Love
Love.
There are so many conotations behind it,
Yet what does it mean?
I think too much,
But can’t come to terms with any thoughts.
This brain fog is yet...

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Categories: platonic, anxiety, love,
Form: Free verse

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