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Best Professed Poems

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Premium Member One Special Yew
I want to merge with this old Yew,
To travel through its rings of time.
Back when it's sprout had just begun
Near Blarney's river so sublime.

Where ivy...

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Categories: professed, autumn, love, nature, sweet
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Nothing But a Name
I once thought that my life was so good,
but I was wrong, I must have misunderstood.

It was a mirage, it was not really there.
I felt...

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Categories: professed, betrayal, confidence, conflict, courage,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Romantic Reflections
Romantic Reflections

Gone now are those halcyon days,
Days we spent by sunny shore.
You are gone now and in my haze,
Reflections make me miss you more.

I hear...

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Categories: professed, death, grief, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Catfished
His hair online
Looked divine, so
To dine, she went.

She’d been misled
And with dread, saw
His head was bald.

What a bad dish.
Her fond wish was
Catfish instead!


*catfished (a fairly...

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Categories: professed, angst,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member A Sneeze To Spring
It started with a sniffle one March morn’
When on my car that telltale film appeared
And I knew well this coat it had not worn
For overnight...

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Categories: professed, seasons, spring,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



And Still She Smiles
And still she smiles  

Even in this darkness, her darkness,
when a moonless sky
preaches fear from a pulpit of shadows
pointing elongated fingers
and walls crumble 
into...

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Categories: professed, depression, friendship, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightenment, Hope and Harmony
God sent His only Son to Earth to bring
Enlightenment, Hope and Harmony.
Free will forbade that he should force
The Truth on world that would not see.

For...

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Categories: professed, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Immutable Beliefs Upholding My Being
This Current Life of Mine
          Created by the Supreme Almighty for His pleasure, I bear His...

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Categories: professed, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member How Jan and Lin Slayed the Dragon
Two ladies named Jan and named Lin
professed a forgivable sin
they cornered a dragon
wrung her in a flagon
and gave her away as cheap gin

The old dragon's...

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Categories: professed, fantasy, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member When You Were You, and I Was I
When you were you, and I was I
And starlight spilled from midnight sky
When sunlight flared and passion dared
We bathed in love, THAT you and I

When...

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Categories: professed, change, lost love, love
Form: Rhyme
In Memory of Chan Hurst-The Archaic Poet
Brother,you were a human torch

in a melanchonic orbit

of undefined wars

Now you are a pentagram star

mystical and magical

Pouring light and love

from a happier place

from behind heaven...

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Categories: professed, absence, angel, beauty, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Evolution of a Life Shared
love born ‘neath star sequins

a hand extended and life’s slow dance begins

confidential whispers exchanged

vows professed on a sun-kissed beach

eternity held in promises

leaping dolphins revel in...

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Categories: professed, lifeautumn,
Form: Free verse
On the Love For God
What I'm about to write will make no sense to those who have a materialistic worldview: that only matter exists, no mind, no soul, no...

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Categories: professed, allusion, appreciation, atheist, god,
Form: Prose
Forever Verona
A Montague. A Capulet.
‘Twas at a masquerade they met.
Two strangers caught each other's eyes
as strains of love began to rise.

Upon a courtyard balcony,
amidst the angst...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: professed, love
Form: Sonnet
Words Are Not Enough
Words are not enough,
Alphabets strung in uncertainty,
Speech slurred in disbelief,
Love endlessly professed,
Lacking in action or substance,
Intentions of the heart,
Inexpressible by vocabulary,
Pledges frustrated by timelines,
Lofty dreams...

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Categories: professed, love,
Form: Prose Poetry

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