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Best Repose Poems

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Premium Member Snow -A Sleep
Snow -
a sleep
descending on the twilight streets;
Snow, in silent fields you lie pristine
beneath moon’s glow, a blanket shimmering.
Oblivion serene!
Tranquilly envelop me in
Sleep -
a snow;
the more...

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Categories: repose, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Dove In Your Eyes
How fast to wiles I fell my damask rose,
awake from slumber slept untold ages.
To gaze so deep in ocean eyes repose,
and print whispered prayer on...

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Categories: repose, imagery, lonely, love, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member She Wept In Languished Moan
She wept as they buried her one true love.
Each day thereafter she brought him a rose,
the flower she knew he was fondest of.
Her grief unbearable,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repose, bereavement,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member The Sea of Love
The ebb and flow that comes and goes
      with ocean’s deep emotion shows
   that hearts, like knaves, become...

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Categories: repose, love, lust, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Malaise In My Heart
There is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repose, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Along Dawn's Amber Shores
Dawn slowly awakened to supplant the moon
Empty, the canopy where stars had been strewn
   In repose, Luna slept after wandering velvet skies
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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repose, poetry, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unconquerable
midst the bosom of a once bountiful farm
lies the graveyard of my ancestors~
the gush of tears that flowed here- only the wind knows;
the willows by...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repose, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tale of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen and I
(Lemuria: A hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.)
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The Tale Of Lemuria, Master Poe, Pen And I

Its birth a shake of...

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Categories: repose, appreciation, art, creation, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Four Sisters
Spring stirs her eager young
Giving life, renewed to those
Who stand about and doze
She whispers hope of things begun
Beneath winter's cold repose.

Summer, smiling golden rays
With ample...

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Categories: repose, nature, seasons,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Broken Doll
Walls of silence hold,
 Me prisoner,
The child held within,
 Cries out for release.
Relative solitude comforts, 
Not the tortured soul,
Inward coiling withdrawing,
 Deep inside. 
Shedding its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: repose, abuse, childhood, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Lies Art
The easel beholds a half finishing painting
The paints beside have all hardened
Pain reflected in the partial emptiness
Staring back at that gathered crowd

The sun melts on...

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Categories: repose, art, death, drink, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wood Nymph
She listens to the whispering of trees 
and views the dance of wind on dew kissed leaves. 
Surrounded by tall silhouettes, she sees 
emerging patterns...

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Categories: repose, fantasy, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Raindrop
One solitary raindrop lay
caressing beauty with its grace.
Just fallen from the sky one day,
one solitary raindrop lay.
How long, I wondered, could it stay
upon the rose’s...

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Categories: repose, metaphor,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member diosa del amor -
 paint a smile on the moon
    flash your eyes to make it swoon
        ...

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Categories: repose, beauty, fantasy, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alana Dulcita
Once in a forest, a long time ago,
there dwelt a young maiden, bright, sweet and fair.
Flowers she wore in her long wavy hair,
and each day...

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Categories: repose, fantasygirl, old, sweet, water,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

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