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Best Risen Poems

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Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: risen, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ode To Dewdrops
You hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...

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Categories: risen, emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Tears To Weep
When I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.

He...

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Categories: risen, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Jesus
On the day our eyes open to the prism of the sun

On that day, Winter solitude  would be gone

The avalanche of differences melts into...

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Categories: risen, blessing, easter, forgiveness, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Sip of Chai
When my fatigued pen,
succumbed to a sleepy state of silence

in the market place of silent poets,
I searched for a tea room to stimulate my mind

my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: risen, analogy, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Joy In the Emptiness
Where once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
  knit into a temporary tomb
  a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
  observed from above
...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: risen, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Milton Creek, Another Chapter
The sun had just risen over town, it was a beautiful morning
And outside Baker's new Bakery, a long queue was forming
The aroma of fresh baking...

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Categories: risen, america, western,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lost In a Maze
A cryptic note:  
“Meet me in the middle of Nowhere,
Tonight when the moon is full.”
What is my wife playing at? Is this her idea...

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Categories: risen, adventure, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and...

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Categories: risen, love, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter Home To Rome'
My dearest Claudia, 

     For eighteen months, I've been at this Jerusalem outpost.
     "Tis you and young...

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Categories: risen, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moon In Pale Depression
Muted evidence proclaimed the subtle oddities of night
   Lunar time should have reached the zenith of its height

No chirping crickets were heard, nor...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: risen, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: risen, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Blood Stained Bridge
Into the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...

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Categories: risen, allegory,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Come and See Jesus
Come and see the tiny baby,
sleeping on a bed of straw.
The angels came and sang His praises,
and shepherds watched in silent awe.

Come and see who's...

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Categories: risen, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
A Getaway To Ancient Venice
I can still recall the look upon His face

Each thought still makes me go to that enchanting place

The vernal air was floral sweet and honey...

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Categories: risen, love, passion,
Form: Prose

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