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Best Purloin Poems

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Premium Member Aster 'Blue Autumn'
Aster 'Blue Autumn,' summer wanes. 
The shining sky of dusk is drenched in splendor.
Tremulously, I watch shadows that arrive 
all to soon-to purloin sun's last...

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Categories: purloin, nature, seasons,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member A Rare Find
Next item up for bid, a rare coin of mine
Is one 1894 s silver Liberty dime
Only 24 of these coins were minted that year
That is,...

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Categories: purloin, business, fantasy, history, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hyena
I have picked up a scent, something's been killed
  And I can hear my feline foes growling still
  I trot off to the...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purloin, africa, cat, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Dark
Beyond the distant saddened sight,
inside this lonely broken place,
I see the light that slowly fades,
the flame that burns like love's gaze
into this empty soundless space,
the...

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Categories: purloin, dark, gothic, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paradise Found 2
Were I to swim to the edge of the sea,
what splendid scene should await for me?
Would I behold the legendary town
with glittering brick roads and...

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Categories: purloin, fantasy, happy, history, longing,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Legend of Greedy Jack
A drunkard, a thief and a con man,
Who was known by the name Greedy Jack,
Lived a life so vile Satan watched him awhile,
Said, "Of sin...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purloin, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Repentance
There be
the goats afloat
of devil’s purloin ditch 
of mix of fact, the faker spoils 
“the child!”
~~~~~~
There be
the child revived
adults of quickened souls
a Ga pe, Masters...

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Categories: purloin, angst,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Pencil Press Rap
"Catch that cloud with an upturned eye,"
Said the spy with the sourpuss, sober cry,
When or whether, the weather of feathers fly high,
What are we but...

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Categories: purloin, people, political, prison, rap,
Form: Rhyme
The Men Sport of Persevering
The feeling of getting rocked for the first time is 
like losing your virginity. How I rise from the producers
decides if I like going down...

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Categories: purloin, adventure, childhood, dedication, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Romantic
Could one learn what romantic fever is?
All I knew was my miserly uncle
With whom we were living,
Fell suddenly in love.
Still he held on tight riches.
...

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Categories: purloin, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cold Cocked Curse
Slinking silently through the night
on tiny tipped toes, claws withdrawn.
He mustn’t sleep until daylight’s dawn,
prudently prowls, avoiding light.

Clever, cunning crones craft a spell
to purloin his...

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Categories: purloin, cat, death, evil, halloween,
Form: Alliteration
Procrastination
P 
   E 
      N 
         D 
  ...

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© Ryan Cc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: purloin, peace, time
Form: Shape
Premium Member Joy and Melancholy
It’s joy that rules my pen most days.
So richly blessed, I’m one who prays
when life presents a daunting test
or obstacles obscure my quest,
attempting to purloin...

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Categories: purloin, joy, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Retribution
In sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least...

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Categories: purloin, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight Raven: a Splendidly Overdone Poem
The midnight raven does not chatter.
He screeches and waits
upon the gallows for a hanged man’s eye
-a tasty morsel for a daemon.
For a raven is a...

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Categories: purloin, dark, death, fear, horror,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs