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Best Predecessors Poems

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Premium Member The Real Me
I was put on the road of life without my consent. 
I was not conscious of who I was or of what I had to...

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Categories: predecessors, character, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Oh Goddess Moon
Oh Goddess Moon, you induce painters to paint,
the crazed to rave and poets to praise your grace.
How many love affairs have you helped to consummate?
With...

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Categories: predecessors, moon,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Smiles Follow You
The golden hour for rising has arrived, and there are violet roses in the sky,
So, I bid hello to you, my robust friend, as the...

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Categories: predecessors, fantasy, imagery, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member ''A Vignette of Nature'' Enhanced
A bloom breaks out afresh from its swollen, 
green bud and then stretches skyward into
 
the sun-infused sky. A feature of nature that's 
timeless and...

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Categories: predecessors, flower, nature, spring, summer,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Deathbeds In the Desert -
The sand is stained red
with our bygone blood,
the blood that brought us from Ararat to the Alti,
a tribe trekking intrepidly through the Eurasian terrain,
caravans of...

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Categories: predecessors, creation, history, western,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Forgotten Language
Mystery symbols in our dreams
Are night's telegrams with strange themes
To grasp the message
Of what these scenes presage
The ancients knew decoding schemes


Author's note: Our inability and...

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Categories: predecessors, dream, language,
Form: Limerick
Ga Ga Over Green
                        Ga...

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Categories: predecessors, appreciation, beauty, green, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paddy
Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color...

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Categories: predecessors, dog,
Form: Prose
Layers
For all the complex science of my mind
The crow still flies
For all the profound answers man may find
The sea still sighs
For all the glass and...

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Categories: predecessors, imagination, life, nature
Form: Verse
Premium Member Open Arms
there waiting for me
on the other side
i like to think
of all those
before me
who have passed
and one day
will line up
by the light
with open arms
to welcome me



AP:...

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Categories: predecessors, death, faith, family, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Future
I am the future of this noble land
I look out for you to seek my hand
Although I am young I have ambitions and strengths
For I...

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Categories: predecessors, devotionfuture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yeti and Bigfoot
Tibetan monks share colorful lore
Taking wide-eyed listeners from a valley floor
To peaks in the sentinel Himalayas
So how could such holy men’s tales betray us

A dark,...

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Categories: predecessors, mystery, cousin,
Form: Rhyme
Yes You Can
Feel to the anguish of the less fortunate
Picture those who opt for shortcuts in life
Sense their grief for they’ve missed out
They forgot a simple life’s...

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Categories: predecessors, courage, grandson, inspirational, school,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Notes On Sister Aimee
Ah the cake before the icing!!!!!! 

Notes:

Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian born...

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Categories: predecessors, angel, mother, religious, romantic,
Form: Light Verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
Strategically placed when raised 
Upwards
By your masterful and well 
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing 
Skylines 
That frown down with arrogant 
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous...

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Categories: predecessors, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme

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