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Best Prying Poems

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Premium Member Halloween's Mask of Comfort
In a house beside the forest lives a woman and her son

He is scarred by burns and fire – hidden kept from everyone

There is land...

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Categories: prying, desire, halloween,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: prying, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Escape
Escape
Introducing: Carl Fraser & Poet Destroyer

Oh Paint me a far away horizon
Across a tranquil azure sea,
Where sits a peaceful deserted island
Where no one lives but...

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Categories: prying, allusion, blessing, dream, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Last Embrace
My whispered words trail to a halt
Her sobbing muffled by the wind
Beneath our faithful trusted tree
Concealed from Luna’s prying eyes
We share the pain of anguished...

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Categories: prying, love hurts,
Form: Verse
Categories: prying, society, war,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Whitewashing the Fence
I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prying, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Truth of Love - POTD
The truth is cruel,
a blurred reality.
The truth is in my heart
carefully hidden from prying eyes.
Don't sigh my friend,
you cannot read it in my face,
'tis well...

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Categories: prying, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Morning
MORNING

Good morning World.

Damn you!
and your warm
sunray fingers
prying open my eyes.

Robbing me of my
nocturnal fantasies,
my semiconscious bliss.

Leaving the remnants
of my peace 
and tranquillity
laying scattered across
my face...

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Categories: prying, giggle, humorous, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Childhood Inequality In School
Some children come into the school building dancing, singing, hopping, bursting with uninhibited glee.
They exchange giddy, happy stories about their day at the mall, dropping...

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Categories: prying, child, child abuse, children,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A "hopeless" Diamond (In the Rough)
French trader Tavernier in a greed-inspired way
Glared at an idol of a temple in Mandalay
Prying a gem from its eye socket, a curse prevailed
Tavernier died...

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Categories: prying, history, mysterylost, hope, lost,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Solemn Seduction - For Contest
Solemn Seduction – for contest


soft winds are swallowed
by my wings
stolen
as the breath of lovers
waiting

unblinking eyes seducing
darkness
prying truth from camouflage

rotations of twist top head
listening for the...

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Categories: prying, beauty, nature, strength,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Me, Myself and Ice
Only the cold crunching
of the fresh snow bunching,
and the tired leather boots
as I take that first step

Can be heard right here
by no other frozen ear,
for...

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Categories: prying, nature, silence, snow, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness
Darkness

Hidden shadows

Keeping all their secrets

Out of reach from my prying eyes

If only for a moment I could see

Revealing mysteries that hide

I might learn of myself

Alone...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prying, dark, depression,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member Tryst
once two met in rain
to hide tears from prying eyes
and longing in mine

stole away in night 
to bargain locked heart's freedom 
you the only key

sat...

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Categories: prying, change, freedom, life, love,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Tramp
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"--- By William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a tramp, 
Far, far away from all human habitats
Away from all prying eyes
Following...

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Categories: prying, happiness, journey, lonely, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs