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Best Presence Poems

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Premium Member Twilight Aurora
Like an interrupted dream
shadows of the one 
who inspired it
linger like morning dew.

No aroma and no taste,
yet I'm left breathless,
as thoughts reminisce.
I listen to this...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presence, absence, angst, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Breadth of My Love
if my love for you was any greater
the trees would  line up in poetic forms
...awe you in sonnets written...
...part...to allow winds to cool your...

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Categories: presence, love, planet, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: presence, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: presence, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: presence, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Starlit Symphony
I still remember 
how you were
there in the dark,
holding my 
bleeding heart.
Whilst I wandered,
sleepless under
soundless spheres.

Now I search
for your starlit
symphony
that echoes,
as idyllic octaves,
from the last...

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Categories: presence, best friend, death, death
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winsome Wisteria Sonnet
Winsome Wisteria Sonnet

Eden, open your ardent arms to grace 
Wisteria's soft lilac petaled blooms 
Draped stunningly about Spring’s sunny face 
In softest shades of lavender...

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Categories: presence, beautiful, beauty, flower, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Broken
I wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -

once again

she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...

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Categories: presence, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nature Speaks To My Soul
I stand alone in natures beauty,
     in the woods by a trickling stream.
I feel the presence of my destiny,
  ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: presence, beauty, dream, feelings, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: presence, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Someone Who Used To Be You
When splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies

I...

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Categories: presence, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: presence, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Behold Death
Behold Death

Behold Death in your loving arms.
Embrace it as you would the loved
one who passed…entering another 
realm, as they are still hovering near
and can hear,...

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Categories: presence, death, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
This Scar of Mine
There is a scar
                     ...

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Categories: presence, nostalgia,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Liquid Heaven
Liquid Heaven

A feast for my womanly inner beast!       
I tease, I please, you have me on my knees
I wring...

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Categories: presence, body, happiness, heaven, lust,
Form: Free verse

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