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Best Salt Mines Poems

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The Snake Charmer
She has eyes like a magnet, that pulls one in
To a steel web where there is no escape
Then she licks her lips as she watches...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt mines, lifelost, evil, lost,
Form: I do not know?



Outside-In Inside-Out, Rebirth, Earth's Time Shares,
birth, creation, dark, death, earth, history, metaphor

OUTSIDE-IN---INSIDE OUT! ©   TANKA

Very green flushed carpets
Sky blue azure topped ceilings
Tree branched sofa chairs
Mirror sea rippling four...

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Categories: salt mines, birth, creation, dark, death,
Form: Tanka
Worth Her Salt
Sarah earned her salt in the Carolina hills
The year was 1800, they mined to pay the bills
The ground was hard and rocky, the winters were...

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Categories: salt mines, adventure, youth,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Beannchor Looks On, Fabulous Pivoting Place
molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
  belly-belching landform
  oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
  land-bridging, submerging
  any one...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt mines, future, history, ireland, places,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member What Did You Dream Last Night
I blow my Saxophone strictly for the pleasure...Its my gift from God one of my many Treasures.
      Took care of...

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Categories: salt mines, black-african amergod, care, write,
Form: Ballad



When I Think About
When I Think About

This world my life those lives of every living thing,
I sometimes disdain those commas and mostly those periods.
Something being so final in...

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Categories: salt mines, imagination, inspiration, words, writing,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Recorder
Today  I took some photos of yellow flowers
in  a field that used to be a battle ground
The locals know little about it, but...

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Categories: salt mines, conflict, cousin, cry, dark,
Form: Blank verse
Chased Glitter
This isn’t make believe
Where you get to act in movie scenes
It’s real life to me 
Seems like you’re programmed to leave

You’ve been nothing but a...

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Categories: salt mines, angst, conflict, irony, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
The Mask of Distraction
I like hallween
because we can't stop pretending

an outfit on some slinky, hot momma
is reason to act unchained
and we're not unchained enough

people are entwined within their...

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Categories: salt mines, happiness, holiday, science fiction,
Form: Free verse
Ice Maiden
Her tears are real, clearly champagne and crystal, 
  delicately micro frozen upon her quiescent face; 
transparent and invisible, deceives the naked eye, 
...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt mines, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Verse
Caution
The litter of chatter
On air pitter patter
Like the Galean on water:
The other one without the power
There is a desolateness here
Borders broken
By the commerce of men
Restructured...

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Categories: salt mines, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member War: Sun Vs Moon Battle
I am denied a resolute rest
for the stars and master moon lost their
battle with the invading dawn and
their royal king sun that shines through my...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt mines, day, good morning, good
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visionary
Twin drops of sweat
perched on his brow
Salt mines
the butcher's
blood-soaked smock
reeking knife
poised...
feverish to finish
the lady's order
his tear-stained chop
wide of the mark...

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Categories: salt mines, food, senses, violence,
Form: Imagism
A War Poem
Soledar and a salt mine 

The mine is enormous can hide an army of Ukrainian soldiers 
the thousands we thought had been killed on the...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt mines, angst, heartbroken,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things