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Best Rim Poems

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Premium Member Star-Crossed - For Love of Day, For Love of Night
(this is a form called Swap Quatrain, where first
line's phrases swap in the last line of each stanza)

In shadows’ veils, at end of night,
sweet Moon...

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Categories: rim, may, moon,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: rim, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Silver Waves Upon the Shore
Pushed there for a thousand years
and will be for a thousand more,
pushed there by the gentle winds
the silver waves upon the shore.

Ancient trees who watched...

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Categories: rim, death, life, nature, sunset,
Form: Quatrain
Where Poetry Lives
His  poems live deep down in the wood
down in an olde hunting lodge
They are brown as the bears head that 
hangs on the wall
brown...

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Categories: rim, on writing and words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Nook and a Storybook
While resting in my nook, breaths grip
As lampshade marks edges of leaves;
That  I wander into the scene
On pages afloat, a tale weaves .
Listening to...

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Categories: rim, books, imagination,
Form: Quatrain



Little Ol' Me
I wish I could write
like those others before me,
Byron and Shelley and old Edgar Poe

Flowery phrases
Thy love unforgetting,
chasing a raven as ink tends to flow

Follow...

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Categories: rim, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomorrow's Flowers
Across the Sprawl of wistful Fall
Through capricious Skies of broken Lies
Naive sweets leave tongues of the young
As the last leaf of summer dies

To Escape the...

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Categories: rim, hope, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble...

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Categories: rim, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic
Painted Lady
The evening sun reclines, dips
her trailing skirts into the fire;
she lounges on the edge of dusk,
her sultry lips, crimson desire.

With violet tints, her painted eyes,
brazen...

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Categories: rim, beauty, cool, sun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Deep Water In a Sleeping Volcano
Spring sneaks through our path in the wake of
hints still left from winter. Snow white pillows have been shoved
and scattered. Timeless treasures of floral engagement...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rim, morning, nature, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Good Cry
A final ugly bellow followed by the front door's slam and then. . .
the natural and sweet respite of silence. 
She remained where he'd left...

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Categories: rim,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Periwinkle Time
"The Periwinkle Time"



Blues crushed prepossessing Violet
Lavender starbursts 
sharp as diamonds
undressed, a soul preys 
with black as crow feathered lashes
that rim the open mirrors 

There in...

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Categories: rim, freedom, imagery, love, mirror,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Machete
you and i were the 'good kids'
only spoke when spoken to
never picked a fight
didn't color outside the lines

later we learned that they
were sifting through all...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rim, voice, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Haiku X 194 - Snow White -
a frosted flower
                      ...

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Categories: rim, beauty, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Great In-Between
"The Great In-Between"



Oh jolle 
vision green 
shining 
black feather-framed
emeralds
spilling over 
the mask’s rim
walls fall while
Jericho doors close
lockdown 
unravels 
like a mind ribbon
travels 
through words
swimming in...

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Categories: rim, i am, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

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