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Best Refraining Poems

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Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: refraining, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Amethyst Fate
Bluebells in chime are shadows in training,
beech trees rising in a sheltering sky.
Sunlight peeks through, the merest of raining,
to guide the mauve buds to darkness...

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Categories: refraining, flower, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Ottava rima
Living In Between
The world comes knocking on your door.
And changes nothing from before.
For who we are is from within.
When we learn that, that's when we win.

There's always...

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Categories: refraining, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
The Love Letter
Dear lover, and soulmate, and friend,
How I hold you so close to my heart;
If your love for me ever should end,
My soul should refuse to...

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© Dana Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refraining, devotion, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, love,
Form: Rhyme
Tendencies
She'll be loved, a modest, pure and golden
Love, but hers is lust . .
A teenage dream of youth today
Refraining from true trust;
Explosive social tendencies to
Decide...

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© Dana Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refraining, adventure, angst, introspection, social,
Form: Rhyme



Magic Now
Skirting the vast edges of my reality, 
wavering between creature and Creator~ 
A single choice is all there is~ 

Future is a thought, past is...

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© Mark Roske  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refraining, desire, fantasy, feelings, imagination,
Form: Prose
Do Friends Mix As Lovers
Side by side we lay,
She breathes shallowly 
and I feel her chest rise
slowly, gently against my body
her breasts press against my side
And I quiver, electricity...

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Categories: refraining,
Form: Free verse
The Power of Taking a Stand
I put my money to work
I put my words into action
Turning my thoughts into reality
Screaming the power of one 

We are misled by the world
Adapting...

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© Ben Ngaka  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refraining, courage, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
The Empress
Once I sat upon your throne
to visit a familiar chair
I am the Empress overthrown
I no longer rule or scare
My face is in the picture
since 1968
There...

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Categories: refraining, mythology, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Last Ode - Parody of a Song
A parody of “The Last Waltz” song written by: Barry Mason and Les Reed
One Last Ode
I wondered if I’d write ever again
Inklings of my heart...

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Categories: refraining, parody, sad love, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light
1

At peace perhaps too much
a fine Spring rain
we seek news from the desert or capitol
of those who have dedicated their lives to losing their lives...

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Categories: refraining, adventure, family, god, happy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices


    prizes for the abstemious  for abstinence  chastity ?
        ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: refraining, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Goody Girl
A few things I resolve to do or dare
Lessen my gallons of soda intake;
The first ‘meal’ for breakfast, not the cornflakes…
Juice therapy would be New...

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Categories: refraining, introspection, new year,
Form: Rhyme
The Forest Pool
The Forest Pool

The flowing stream paused to rest
Refraining from its urgent quest
To rush ever faster at the Worlds bequest

I too watch the Forest pool
And wonder...

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Categories: refraining, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Golden Egg
you don't even know
where to go what to say
how to hear- be here now
today come play i'll stay if i
may- your seed plus me makes...

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Categories: refraining, allegory, introspection, life
Form: Free verse

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