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Best Ridden Poems

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Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ridden, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Sensual Silky Colors
I have loved and been loved -  I have shared ivory love bliss colors.

I have ridden sapphire airs of crimson ecstasy and touched silver...

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Categories: ridden, longing, passion, romantic, senses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: ridden, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Gypsy Guy
Well, Gypsy Guy would rather die than hunker down in chains,

be ridden south with bit in mouth, or heed the hold of reins.



The ruling lot...

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Categories: ridden, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cashmere Wishes
You waited for this moment,
As if you were an incomplete salutation

You waited for confessional breaths to alleviate this finite evening
Missing its constellations

You wept for their...

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Categories: ridden, life, longing, people,
Form: Free verse



Peircing Silence, Screaming Thoughts...
Here in my room,
I lay in my bed,
With every thought of you,
Intruding my head,
Like snapshots in my brain,
Of the last thing you said,

My gut is...

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Categories: ridden, lost love, love, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not So Easy Rider
I wish to return to beauty
instead of the mundane
To marvel at rainbows
glistening in the rain

To feel melancholy 
Life’s mysteries to explain
Choo Choo engine progress
days chugging...

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Categories: ridden, angst, appreciation, beauty, desire,
Form: Monorhyme
In a Perfect World-Celebrating My Faves
In A Perfect World-Celebrating my Faves
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich


If life was perfect there would be no more cancer...

There would be no more painful treatments, but more...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ridden, death, loss,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Wounded Star
A wounded star
                      ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ridden, grief, lost love, star,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Was Saved
You read in the papers you watch on the news
Coalition soldiers amidst as the killing accrues
In these theatres of war we lose many lives
In these...

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Categories: ridden, angst, family, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sky Cracked Open
"The Sky Cracked Open"



One day 
the Sky cracked open
the yolk of life
shined through

Splinters shifted
blooded angel quills
flew amongst the
black spots in the iris 

20/20 vision 
wild...

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Categories: ridden, dark, fate, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What If There Was No Tomorrow
Meaning of oath no longer has a covenant
Guaranteeing to future commitment of pledge
Rendering futile all promises of yesterdays 
As grief ridden past dominates today's sorrow
For...

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Categories: ridden, future, life, today,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ukraines Defiance
Ukraine is putting up a brave fight and is not giving in
A two finger salute to that murderer, Vladimar Putin
For eight months now they've held...

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Categories: ridden, death, evil, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Perfect Poem
Stopped by Seven Eleven to find absolution...
maybe some triple chocolate Häagen-Dazs'
slice of heaven., a little peace; redemption.  

A lanky guy dressed in jeans and...

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Categories: ridden, brother, character, endurance, friend,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member MILTON CREEK NEWS
Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ridden, places,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things