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Best Residual Poems

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Residual Joy
Did you ever have one of those magical nights
When everything clicks into place?
When the stars are aligned and your mood is defined
By a flood of...

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Categories: residual, happy,
Form: Rhyme



An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: residual, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Onoff the Cuff
I believe that poetry is and of is was were have has been of as one pretenses a 
poetic practical pompous, pro  (p) ransomedramatical...

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Categories: residual, august, confusion, culture, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Innocence
Whom the horse is looking for
Every day in the scarlet breeze
It comes and taps at the door
Have you forgotten your blue cheese

Is it the one...

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Categories: residual, childhood, color, innocence, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress"
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

The hourglass, 
a skeletal jester, 
mocks in the tomb's chill,
Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, 
"Soon...

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Categories: residual, death, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Comes the Night
Comes the night with a residual rampant roar
As the shadows swallow the remaining light
For death documents it final scurrilous score
And breaths are barred from taking...

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Categories: residual, anxiety, confusion, death, night,
Form: Quatrain
A Message From West Texas - Recited
She sent me a message while I was walking Mr. Reilly,
She said “Look up, and tell me what you see.”
I thought I would impress her...

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Categories: residual, nature, passion, romance, missing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Like, Not So Different
“God like, not so different” 

She wrote, 
“where do you go to my lovely?”

my response, 
“I sink into the screen 
like a scream queen goddess,
I...

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Categories: residual, muse,
Form: Narrative
Transcendental Time
Incandescent illusions of massive transfusions
For we are all trapped in tautological time
There is no escape for when you awake
A punitive prisoner that has committed no...

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Categories: residual, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Going All Bruce Lee
"Going All Bruce Lee" 

It’s like holding water
in your hands. 
they say, be like water
as if on the drop, 
the turn of H20 on tap,...

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Categories: residual, dark, imagery, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dear Fake Profile
“If you cannot be yourself, do not take away the identity of another.” -D.J.E.

Why do you return in another form,
Another residual voice?

Did you forget the...

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Categories: residual, betrayal, identity, trust,
Form: Free verse
How Can I Help You
As every meeting ends in a goodbye, a shopping trip always ends in a good buy. That's life. But the sales are over and I...

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Categories: residual, care, hope,
Form: Haibun
What Blooms In the Spirit When Spring Comes Around
When the red wasp come out,
and the lush tree limbs begin to sway in the breeze,
Shaking off the residual drowsiness of their six month slumber,
I...

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Categories: residual, flower, garden, happiness, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Old Chapel of Berhampur
Beside the old chapel of Berhampur
A shadow of man 
Residual on the lonely roads,
Always walked in circles
After 3’o clock at night.
One crossing to another,
He moved...

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© Adri Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: residual, life,
Form: Free verse
Jaded Trail
Blithe fools traipsing through bleary hollow 
Airy sprites in hovering tents shadow
Brooding sylvan fringe shrouding light with her swaying willow
Jaded beams peep through the crenelated steeple's...

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Categories: residual, nature, people
Form: Rhyme

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