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Best Revelries Poems


Premium Member Oh, Autumn
...Oh, splendorous, spectacular, resplendent autumn!

Boldly you dye cypress ~ flaunting ochre, cinnamon,
Yellowing sugar-maple, glazing tangerine emotions,

As scarlet winds warble in accents of m......

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Categories: revelries, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Realm of Love
...In realm of love, you are the awe of mystique~
Musings of smitten soul, passions bespeak,
When glances romantic lure enamored night
To dance of fantasies moonlit revelries ignite
Waltzing with st......

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Categories: revelries, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gate
...Regally it stands, the staunch guardian of her lonesome heart,
Reminiscing in revelries of yore, treasured memories impart,
Defying glum turbulence of now, hanging on to seasons past,
When springs......

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Categories: revelries, emotions, memory, missing,
Form: Personification

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
...Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows of hyacinths and ferns quiver, disarranged huts begin to shake as ......

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Categories: revelries, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Fragile Self
...While finding  myself in  season’s twilight
I see parts of life crumble amid grime of ruins,
As a  declining mind wanders to  balance
Gratified triumphs and numerous offenses.
That from an era’s ......

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Categories: revelries, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Old Oak-Tree Smiling Through My Balcony
...This old oak-tree smiling through my balcony
Sways and swings cheerily, a happy emissary,
Budding new vigor upon tiny greenish leaves
Adorning exuberance of idyllic new morning, 
Quivering golden......

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Categories: revelries, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Soul of My Life
..."i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                                   ee Cummings

Tender are your ruby lips, my smile has ever......

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Categories: revelries, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hands That Dipped Me
...From your hands that dipped me in cool tubs 
and soft morn wakes, you were the gentle lion
taming my bohemian strains; the lamb of summer
rain catching me like a feather on your palm........

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Categories: revelries, fathers day, inspiration, me,
Form: Free verse
Only To Depart
...I brushed aside
My faraway glimpses,
The many consequences
Of trifle revelries I wasted
Grasping the snippets of night time
And all  abandoned pining.
Bouquets of fondled whispers dangled
Amon......

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Categories: revelries, absence, how i feel,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A World Without You
...Shattered dream of hushed night
Trapped in tenebrous nightmare
A world without you, a forlorn cry, 
Vacant stare of lonesome life
Aching to hear your loving voice.

A chorus of sweet angelic hy......

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Categories: revelries, feelings, grief, i miss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Deepest Fantasies
...My deepest fantasies are high.
Into the deep I would not go.
In them, I'd soar with birds in sky
and watch all things that are below.

All on my own, I long to fly.
My deepest fantasies are hig......

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Categories: revelries, fantasy,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Centaurs
... 
Centaurs

~*~

In Greek Mythology monsters come in all shapes
sometimes hideous and strange . . . often representing
the dark forces in life, creatures such as Centaurs-- part
h......

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Categories: revelries, mythology,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member London Lament
...I had to sit through it all
the conversation that was inevitable
What they did
Where they went
What they saw...
My brother and his wife
On the their expensive trip to see Roger Federer in the f......

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Categories: revelries, sad,
Form:
Fireworks Delight
...The children shot rockets painting the heavens in psychedelic colours
And showers of fluorescent rainbow colours came dancing down
The air burst with thunderous rumblings of crackers and fireworks
......

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Categories: revelries, beautiful, bird, celebration, children,
Form: Verse
Grace Under Presure
...I bring you a live commentary match between Sin and Grace

Sin are inches away to the box
Lust shots, Self-Control reacts well and blocks
Longsuffering has been fouled at the 18-yard
Pride has been b......

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Categories: revelries, bible, character, christian, jesus,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry