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Best Quarry Poems

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Premium Member Like a Moth To a Flame
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Is
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Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece...

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Categories: quarry, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Shape



Premium Member Among Butterflies Sought
Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open...

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Categories: quarry, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Watering the Garden of Dreams
taciturn springs rising
from within the quarry 
of deep earth's wisdom
urging lyrical waters to transpose
while held like singing seas of living reveries
of history and infinity
misting to...

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Categories: quarry, creation, dream, fate, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Silence Speaks
How can they say
silence has no sound? Make it go away.
Floor-felled, right ear pressed to the phone,
cowering in a quarry of quiet
between coffee table and...

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Categories: quarry, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tiger In His Glory
A stealthy tiger stalks his prey
His eyes alight with cunning gleam;
And tho' the world may peaceful seem
The lissome springboks graze and play --
The danger lurks,...

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Categories: quarry, animal, cat, death, power,
Form: Quintilla



Premium Member Bloody Mary
In the flickering of the ethereal candlelight, as the greenish blue flame
Burns dimly against the ancient mirror of reflections, the necromancer
Chants in rhythms rhythmic undertones,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quarry, fantasy, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Spare Time
my time is torn with thoughts of love
labors worn from pretending
things i wish to come
hopes tied up in the labyrinth
of my mind
wishes all used up
prayers...

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Categories: quarry, love
Form: Light Verse
Temple of Life
You are my obsidian dream and I will quarry your love
In the Temples of Oblivion, reveal your secrets to me!
Let us strike a mortal bargain...

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Categories: quarry, dream, love, marriage,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Harbor Spring
A light wind gently rocks our sailboat as
breezes begin to pick up on the sun drenched dock. 
Cable wires rap and tap upon the mast...

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Categories: quarry, beauty, nature, ocean, spring,
Form: Abecedarian
Ode To the End of War
Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No...

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Categories: quarry, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
The Dragline
THE DRAGLINE  for Pete Brett 

One hundred foot boom 
 7-½-yard bucket 
The tracks are like 
 Ones on the tracks of a tank
They...

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Categories: quarry, family, dance, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch
"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath...

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Categories: quarry, integrity, mirror, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What He Gets For Empty Nets
The old fisherman sat in his dory

Empty nets, but concocting a story

It would sure mean his life

Should he greet his young wife

At the dock without...

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Categories: quarry, adventure, funny, humorous, light,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member fallen down -
my angel, fallen ...

            gossamer linen, violet lace
      ...

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Categories: quarry, imagery, metaphor, muse, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Laughing Moon
It's here now under a converted sky
Where daylight has loss it’s might
Hours before the green hills had sight, with 
splattered  hints of yellow wild...

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Categories: quarry, nature, on writing and
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs