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Best Proves Poems

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Premium Member Yet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer Hues
Yet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer Hues

Bitter cold, ice ravages red-cliffs in my veins
Yet my mind holds invincible summer hues
O' Darkness thy black-hand my spirit...

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Categories: proves, art, creation, dark, dedication,
Form: Rhyme



A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story
"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)

My dad and I we...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proves, funny, life, mystery, me,
Form: Burlesque
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: proves, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Fathers Immortality
Upon waking up this day, a single tear
Father your eternal immortality 
Still proves wise and gracious
I haven’t been misled by popular opinion
Which should be taken...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proves, father, father daughter, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: proves, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Bunyip Forest Revisited
Along the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where...

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Categories: proves, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Age of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed - a Tribute With Robert Lindley
The Age of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed:

Our summer love began in Gemini 
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did swoon as...

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Categories: proves, inspiration, love, passion, romance,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member On God's Existence
What am I?*

Am I just a matter?
Am I just spirit?
Or
Am I a combination of spirit and matter?

If we examine the first case- that I am...

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Categories: proves, faith, god, people, universe,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Why of Who I Am
The why of who I am would take a book
to give full explanation, but right here
I’ll spell it out – though I cannot be brief,
for...

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Categories: proves, me,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Created By Choices
Something evil this way comes
Sure as the rising of the Son

A single heart left to bleed
A lost soul with a dying need

When love proves it...

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Categories: proves, angst, life, lost loveheart,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Age of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
The Age Of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
(a Sonnet duet)


Our summer love began in Gemini 
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did...

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Categories: proves, art, heart, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sailing Away Under a Silver Moon Forever
Sailing Away Under a Silver Moon Forever

As the morning slowly awakens I see how those beautiful eyes
Of yours warmly shine bright and share thy palpable...

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Categories: proves, beautiful, dream, emotions, imagery,
Form: Terza Rima
Forever Dance
it's been a while since I last felt alone yet happy 
The sun dances in the sky, and I smile for such beauty only is...

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Categories: proves, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Wishes

“Wishes”

The things  we wish to change 
remain the same

~Sans love

there is no chance of 
meaningful change

~Sans wisdom

it's inconceivable,
our intelligence proves futile
to our survival

~Sans the...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proves, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Audouin's Hunger
Had a thought a moment ago, just before I broke your aura'd wing, 
trapped here, forever, within Audouin's vast crater alone and pining. 
Starved for...

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Categories: proves, flower, heart, heaven, loneliness,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs