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Best Rawness Poems

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Premium Member Going Wild About Clare
Going wild about Clare 

     Where hills lay barren, and bedrock’s stripped bare
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Categories: rawness, allusion, beautiful, ireland,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fear Not the Wind
Fear not the fierce wind, o gentle heart
Though it may rattle the eaves
And give no ear to its whispers with nothing to impart
But shallow promises...

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Categories: rawness, fear, nature, uplifting,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Devouring Presence
DEVOURING PRESENCE -- REPOST
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gray as...

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Categories: rawness, life, passion
Form: Free verse
David Flavoured
Enticed by his faceted aspects
                Political points show his honour
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Categories: rawness, black african american, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Woodlands
I zip up my jacket, pulling my beanie cap over my ears. The brisk November morn greets me as I turn north, approaching the wooded...

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Categories: rawness, november,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member - Hydra and Kharybdis -
When the waves break and

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Categories: rawness, deep, faith, fear, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Secrets In a Storm
Secrets sail on the whirling winds,
along with the dark and driven clouds.
Carried aloft with litter and leaves
are invisible, partly submerged longings:

to hitch a ride on...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rawness, freedom, storm, weather,
Form: Blank verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 7
I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…

“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…

I...

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Categories: rawness, abuse, adventure, allusion, anger,
Form: Free verse
Alliterative Haikus'
Rising Rituals 

ravishing rawness
ravenous raunchy relief
riveting repeats


Special Someone

sultry seductions
sinful sensations surface
seeking saucy stars

Taming Taboo

teasing temptations
tremendous titillations
tempting the tyrant




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July.19.2020
Let the Pens Flow ~Alliteration Poetry
Sponsored by~ Jenish...

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Categories: rawness, deep, desire, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
An Empty Mind
The water tinkled down
My memory lane
Sweet was the sound of pain
As I gently remembered her face
Moving along the rim
The angel softly touched 
My heart strings...

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Categories: rawness, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rusted Horn
He assembled in darkness the corroded horn
by familiarity and sense of touch.
Then cast as thunder into the empty night
long tones void of musical melody.
Sustained tones,...

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Categories: rawness, introspection, music, night,
Form: Free verse
Better Peices
You were old and new all at once
A deadly temptation 
A glitch in my solid nature
And so I dove head first
And as I did I...

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Categories: rawness, confusion, dark, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mystery of Clair De Lune
While the city rests under the velvet of skyline ,
I lie awake to trace a highway of clouds
trailing against a lunar pageant,
as evening shadows alter...

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Categories: rawness, moon, mystery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Toast To Enchantment
To butterflies, bats, and midnight creatures,
To the brilliant, the dark, and things unseen.
To roses, wine, and satin dresses,
To a lucid child-like dream.

To the musty scent...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rawness, culture, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Splash of Inspiration
many fearless nights, I prowled
on rooms of grimy paper dimmed then
lit by this lone wayfarer searching
a gush of passion to feed the words 
with some...

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Categories: rawness, imagination, recovery from, writing,
Form: Imagism

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