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Best Rituals Poems

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Aphrodite of the Morning Sun
Your honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…

Mane of a lioness suave...

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Categories: rituals, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mundane Matters of Mortals
Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease 
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - 
the sickly buzz is everywhere..

the dirge of the drudge 
nowadays damn near everyone in...

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Categories: rituals, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Burial
The burial ground,  groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...

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Categories: rituals, cute love, endurance, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mankind's Greatest Mystery (Inspired By Chris Higgins)
If 2012 prophesies prove true
And Earth’s life cycles again renew
Mysteries of man will be more than a few

Challenges may await future life forms
With intellects far...

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Categories: rituals, dedication, inspirational, mysterylife, may,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Mother Ganga
No mere river, thou art nation’s heartbeat,
That you came from heaven may be a myth,
Not that for common good ye fell beneath,
For centuries ye lift...

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Categories: rituals, mother, river,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Doublethink Beliefs
  This Life

From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...

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Categories: rituals, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Incarnate
 I am the cascading radiance,
 between apricot glows of gloaming,
when mauve mists shift,
mirroring sage seas of love, 
I look beyond silvery skies
  whilst...

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Categories: rituals, anxiety, deep,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 2
8. Transformation

Yielding to those who have mastered the art
Of grasping one's place in existence's grand scheme
Life’s constant challenges never depart
But humble diligence will grow the...

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Categories: rituals, spiritual, sports,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Here In This Place Today
V

Indeed, it is so far, far, far back where last I
Stood in sight of all her unnerving ambiguities...       ...

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Categories: rituals, betrayal, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Day and Night Greet Each Other
Remnants owlish wisdom wafts through nighttime’s purple sky.
Fox settles down with her kits, against a nurturing oak stump.
Meadow and forest perform their nightly slumbering rituals.
Vigilant...

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Categories: rituals, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Heloise On Abelard
These barren walls
Keep me chaste
Vows of silence
Diminish nothing of wanton passions of the past
Days in silence, looking upwards to God
Thoughts linger, to where true love...

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Categories: rituals, beauty, history, love, me,
Form: Light Verse
Oratory - Power of the Spoken Word
As words escaped constricted passage
of time from eons of layered myths,
legends of demi-gods thus linked,
in glowing rendition, with whisk on hand
the Orator with staff, sang...

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Categories: rituals, art,
Form: I do not know?
Grandma Happy
Footsteps on stairs,
little feet pounding, running,
child faces peeking round the kitchen door,
expectancy alive, dancing in their eyes.
They know that love is always here
waiting just for...

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Categories: rituals, grandchild, grandmother, happiness, happy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Child's View of Death
A Child’s View of Death

People say now that Grandpa was thin
But he had plump cheeks; cancer had set in 

Each Sunday penny candy in my...

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Categories: rituals, childhood, deathdeath, death, me,
Form: Couplet
Ghetto Gospel
GHETTO GOSPEL

BY STREET CRIES

ABANDON BUILDINGS HOUSES WITH NO PARENTS ALL CHILDREN
READY AND WILLING TO BE PROGRAMED BY THE TELEVISION 
GUNS WITH PRECISE PRECISION 

PAIN PILL...

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Categories: rituals, addiction, art, education, political,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things