Best Predilection Poems

The glide of the plane almost in step with my rooftop.
Visibility of blue heaven low; lookout for earthwalkers.
My bland Toyota euphoric and banded by tight...

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Captured by a young man with an old soul that's good to the 
  bone.
Her desires awaits patiently and yet fulfilled as he joins...

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Happiness of Life Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


When I speak of love…
     -I speak of you.
When I feel tenderness… 
  ...

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A heavy fog encompassed all the amber pines
Her predilection and consternation heightened 
Poet now attuned to unusual sounds and signs
The scene's ghostly and unearthliness so...

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Her love was amazing—it encompassed all;
Unconditional—never filled with condemnation,
Despite my predilection toward unmitigated gall,
And unrelenting juvenile reverence for flirtation.
The years did lapse, all consternation lost;
All...

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My Signature Poem: 
Rhyme and Romance that I employ so often.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/cinder_girl_203924

Nature with a Chilling Message: 
Shows my love for story-telling and personification.
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/in_stranglers_wood_204456

Early Free Verse:
When I...

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(Excerpt from “The Dreadnaught”)

We are all harnessed to the sun
Strapp’d to fate’s elliptical orbit
Held by a captor so immense, so torrid,
That we’re flung to each...

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Written: August 08, 2023, For Pick-A-Title, Vol 38 - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning...

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Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless...

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The violet tress of clover blossom,
marks the countess' winter solemn.
Her sorrow,
her cardinal wanton 
for her prince,
falsely in prison.

There is no respite to her yearning.
There is...

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uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.

A disappointment set in place in the event that based...

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I always get a rise when I see your eyes
Looking back into mine – 
And am never quite sure if it’s you or me 
Reflecting...

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Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the...

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Love 

the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, 
the reverent affection due from creatures to God
sharing and caring for others
sharing laughter and tears
the result...

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