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Best Rakes Poems

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Premium Member The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace...

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Categories: rakes, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Angelic
Where is the love you promised us always? Eternal love is 
cast out of heaven for the angelic it seems—Quote by poet

It burns deeply knowing...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rakes, angel, feelings, irony, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Stuff of Earth
Poisonous air streams down
As plastic-laden waters choke
Fishes and  Universal Motion's glow ...
So much has changed through time,
I wail against slow death of UV skin,
while...

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Categories: rakes, environment, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
To a Slug
Your pace of life is just sublime
When blessed with seasons, wet and warm
With foliage and fungi, you mark your time
A gastropod; a handsome form
As your...

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Categories: rakes, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Everthing Is Everything
In the summer Hot Weather, is the season of expressing the ultimate calamity of days of
unbearable treasure.  The measure of pleasure is fullfill as...

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Categories: rakes, dedication, devotion, childrensummer, summer,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Night Snake
By 3 a.m. he often would awake
I’d feel the bed shake. . . 
shake. . . shake. . . 
He’d say my name and ask:
Are...

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Categories: rakes, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clack of Time
Married for eternity to the cool earth.
So difficult to think about my beautiful flower.
Surrounded by jagged rocks and cold rainwater.
Your sweet petal skin forged from...

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Categories: rakes, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Preparing For the Holidays
Christmas eaves’ drop - red and green leaves of pre-December.
The snow-white clouds, the beard of Santa Claus’ pre-remember.
The elves are surely hammering
whilst Mrs. Claus is...

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Categories: rakes, christmas, humor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Devoted To Love
I hover back and forth under a dim lamp
Waiting for his grip to open the door;
My  breath pulses  at a beloved’s  sight
As...

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Categories: rakes, devotion, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tempestuous Storm
Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rakes, anger, angst, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
That Is Some Hydraulic Brakes
That is Some Hydraulic Brakes

One day at a food shop,
I met a man selling cakes,
For money he wanted to swap,
But I really wanted some hydraulic...

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Categories: rakes, 11th grade,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The 4 Seasons
Soft flurries, at dawn,
      spurred on by wind;
   the blow and drift
of twilight’s whiteout blizzard.

Achoo, here we go;
...

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Categories: rakes, seasons,
Form: Verse
Kestrel Falcon


    She is quite the Mistress of the air, synchronize swimming where Eagles dare-stare, no need for landing batons or clearance, she...

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Categories: rakes, art,
Form: Rhyme
Mom's Most Incredible Day Ever
Have you ever had a day that you wanted to relive over and over again? A day when the craziness of the world was far...

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Categories: rakes, autumn, innocence, joy, kindergarten,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Winter
WINTER

old folks
warmly dressed
out with rakes and hoes
try to inveigle
a new spring

Dave Austin...

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Categories: rakes, winter,
Form: Tanka

Book: Reflection on the Important Things