Best Recollected Poems

Wishing Well by Juke55 @ Deviant Art



I circle from pale to shade,
countless steps
around the abandoned well.
Wasted wishes rest 
in dried-up depths, 
we perish
in its hollows....

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Ambling thro' the museum today an object caught my eye,
Inviting me to pause and reminisce about a time gone by.
'Twas an old oaken icebox standing...

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Once agone moments in time
        she was poetry in motion,
   'til she pirouetted herself
  ...

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What pushes my pen in this whimsical notch of the world?

   Something whispers to me like an elder dream....
  
  ...

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". . . . poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"
Woodworth

With emotions of an artist
I pen...

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Gust of playful wind
nudged me with flurry of leaves.
Childhood memories
             recollected in my...

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"The Messenger"

Love is rich with 
venom and honey. 

there was a female ...

snake, 
it watched 
with green-eyed 
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest

the dove, 
was white as...

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“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”

I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans...

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It is said that letting go
can be the hardest thing

The part-time lovers,
corrupted friends,
pastime lovers and 
incomplete bondings
holding final piece until the end

But I
embrace gratitude

For I...

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He was angry when they came
   And said he wouldn’t go.
“You can’t make me leave this house!”
   “I’ll fight you all,...

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I met a pessimist walker in Optimist Park,
She walked with a walker and a co-walker
Swaying on either side, not in her mark.
Crippled, stressed, depressed, a...

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Silhouettes fade as summer draws near
Yearning for their presence in this barren room
Rippling sounds of one's laughter cause me to tear
Awakens this reverie like scent...

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A poet  is often bombarded by the meaning of words
He got to have a physical relationship with language
With the structural elements like couplets and...

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As she walked slowly
Towards the woods,
She kept thinking of her old house..
The one so dear to her.
 
She remembered her friends,
Her school, and her garden,
As...

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birth, creation, dark, death, earth, history, metaphor

OUTSIDE-IN---INSIDE OUT! ©   TANKA

Very green flushed carpets
Sky blue azure topped ceilings
Tree branched sofa chairs
Mirror sea rippling four...

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