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Best Roguish Poems


Sea Songs
...His heart is with the winds
that set his spirit free,
enduring breeze that sets the sails
and guides him out to sea.

Sea rover fair with eyes as blue
as ocean’s deepest depth,
he hails the mo......

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Categories: roguish, adventure, loss, sad, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sheriff's Last Ride
...When visions crawl into his dream
to grate against a hilltop’s ire,
a sheriff flicks like soft campfire
where hazy winds dip low ,midstream.
Bandit frays stab a roguish past…
he gaze......

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Categories: roguish, nostalgia, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God Is Always Good - 2
...
He was gone for all of that time
No one knew what his life was like
He could have been a thief or murderer
Only God knows all that he’s done
Why would Daddy let him come back home?

H......

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Categories: roguish, faith, forgiveness, god, hope,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Thoughts On Suspense
...Suspense is a thing worth not knowing
Dying for the knowledge of the mystery
From novice to brainiac ever flowing,
Slipping into the dark annals of history.

Shudders at the noise of vic......

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Categories: roguish, mystery, writing,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member Super Power Me
...When that mind of yours a vicious censor screams
“you can’t,“
every time you even vaguely contemplate some new adventure or perhaps that dream encounter,
you’ve been promising yourself and those y......

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Categories: roguish, appreciation, birth, blessing, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quixotic
...In a world where dreams are rakish and quixotic,
Where quiddity seems extravagantly chaotic,
A chivalrous soul dares to be different.
With a heart that beats fervently, so magnificent.......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roguish, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme



The Devil Moved In Next Door
...Bait dangles as prospects lure
Attempts to whittle the façade 
The devil moved in next door

Flawless exploits and flashy couture  
Your coy routine makes me applaud
Bait dangles as prospects l......

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Categories: roguish, slam,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member A Garden Dances
...Be still...a garden dances
Pollination’s lush ballet
Find your Zen with gentle glances

The stage abuzz, new life advances 
Grand jetés in jaundiced sway 
Be still...a garden dances

Succulen......

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roguish, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Mischief
...Mischief

M   My soulmate is a miracle woman
I     In Conception and in contraception
S    She’s born three children one on the coil
C    Condom leakage on another and
H    Her first born on th......

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Categories: roguish, birth,
Form: Acrostic
Out of the Blue
...Out of the blue I searched for you,
Under yellow skies I walked,
With scarlet red the things you knew!
The black lace talked and talked

I found you thumbing on the road,
Drifting south for a c......

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Categories: roguish, color, fantasy, journey, magic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rush Amid the Rapids Published
...The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil,......

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Categories: roguish, adventure, age, appreciation, art,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Roguish Winds
...deep dark clouds invade
roguish winds churn reckless sea...
black rain... wild surf raid
~*~

Recalling Hurricane Sandy......

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Categories: roguish, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
...Man Walks into Police Station
Old bag’s head.
“Cheater,” he said.

Fruity Find From Costa Rica
Pineapple fruit fake.
Lucky cocaine break.

Roll Out The Barrels
Beer kegs......

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Categories: roguish, drink, food, sea, time,
Form: Couplet
Stardust In Her Eyes
...She sees me as a lustrous light of celestial origin
a blazing-blast, blistering-fast, free-flight beam
to thrill the sky's wide-eyed gaze
this little bright eyed boisterous boy
that spins and......

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Categories: roguish, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maze
...I found a chateau lawn once, teeming with charm
A  MAZE it was,  growing cluttered yet it had an air
Of much lushness TURNING the space into a hued mantle;
Where PATHS of herbage, blue......

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Categories: roguish, garden, memory,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry