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Best Roil Poems

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Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: roil, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Mother's Bookmark's
My thoughts they roil like waters dark 
in the abyss of blackest night, 
with memories of mother’s bookmark,
of Longfellow read by lamp light.
She called, in...

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Categories: roil, absence, loss, love, mother
Form: Ode
Premium Member You Are Water
You, are water~
fluid moods
overflowing extremes.

I dip my toes 
testing,
should I dive in..?
This time,
will  y o u  let me sink or swim?
Have you ...

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Categories: roil, abuse, conflict, fear, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tinderbox
Rife are grievous echoes lamenting worldwide
From widespread disgust clamoring weary sigh,
Perturbed in lonesomeness, bawling in dark,
Clasped beneath shroud of tenebrous clouds,
Rendering world aghast in grip...

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Categories: roil, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Not Today, Not Anymore -
For 15 years I have tolerated,
calculated, anticipated, sublimated workplace degradations, derisions,
subversions towards my character,
not today, no more,
yes, my pride has become livid, swollen like a...

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Categories: roil, business, work, me, work,
Form: Epic



Workshop Poem - Winds Forgive
Turning my back on typhoon skies, 
a pestilent past, I pitch my mistakes 
into a forgiving wind. Standing barefoot 
at the edge of apologies, 
coastal...

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Categories: roil, change, faith, forgiveness, memory,
Form: Free verse
Old Soul
Black, storm cloud eyes sear, roil
smog-aged burnt skin-
Soul is old...torn

All by the age of six.




for David's twenty/twenty contest :)

02272012...

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Categories: roil, life, social,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon the Edges Shadows Fall
blank-faced the page calls
each pounded pore of rice waits 
brush tips dance on pointed toe 
or fall like curtains
stark poser of questioned light
much more is...

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Categories: roil, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Astral Ash
I will not have a carved tombstone;
the wind will carry me.
I've stayed in one place long enough;
one place, one form, one old tome.

I will not...

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Categories: roil, farewell,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and...

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Categories: roil, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath Cool Green Shade
Beneath cool green shade
we roil in inner undulations--
a fever of hands, a pox
of sunlight glinting
high canopies of summer trees.

Creeks crackle, clear
water molding speckled
pebbles as laughter
churns...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roil, life, love, passion, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Moonrise Above the Firth
Light shimmered on the lake at moonrise
a breathtaking view that glimmers
Lively serpentine swimmers
flow below astral skies
Ripples, side by side
roil to provide
reflections
on the 
tide.
*
Ride
a wave
as enslaved
'Neath...

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Categories: roil, moon, perspective,
Form: Nonet
Morsels of Deceit
Give the people what they want,
let them have it   quickly
The pot is on the boil,
hissing steam 
Desires of an improper seethe

Angry thoughts on...

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Categories: roil, perspective, political, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Tea for Two
I love to watch the tilt of your tender-tipped fingers
cupping the teacup's rounded heat,

the way you would gently cup my breasts,
your hands coiled lovingly around...

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Categories: roil, drink, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hector
Poiseidon's waters roil and roar
All up and down the craggy coast;
Their winedark waves have brought the host
Of foreign men all drunk for glory,
For the sake...

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Categories: roil, history, loss, warfather, father,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things