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Best Scrolls Poems

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Premium Member Chinese Scrolls
Poems from old and yellowed
Chinese scrolls make me sad,
make me sad: stored in shiny,
lacquered boxes of perfumed teak,
they crumble when unrolled.
And the hands that must...

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Categories: scrolls, allegory, art, imagination, introspection,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: scrolls, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Remembered In Thy Full Bloom,Collaboration By Robert J Lindley, Teppo Gren and Michael P Clark
Remembered In Thy Full Bloom 
A Collaboration By,
Robert Lindley, Teppo Gren
and  Michael P Clarke.


Thou art remembered in thy full bloom,
a rose grown within my...

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Categories: scrolls, art, creation, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Serendipity
August wind, glass moon,serendipity...
two chairs gazing at each other in tender flow.
Hundred miles away, clouds gather
to fondle the opening and closing
of after- midnight refrains,
both trespassing...

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Categories: scrolls, magic, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Date With Milton
Death comes to all like a great shadow,
servant of reality when the truth of it sinks
in leaving the experience embedded on
one’s soul. Milt, given to...

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Categories: scrolls, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse



Sleeping Beauty
Laughing amid the joyful morn as dashing through this sunlit meadow; sprites

Colouring in smiles whileas nature gazes and angels point, unto a clearing....

Rising columns aneath...

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Categories: scrolls, happiness,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Spirit of Christmastide
Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the...

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Categories: scrolls, christmas, december, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Word- Heroic Crown of Sonnets
THE LAW

Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his...

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Categories: scrolls, bible, christian, life, light,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member God's Kind of Poetry
I formed the poet to be my clay pen
To dance on the pin tip of my understanding
I delight in words
All things came into existance through...

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Categories: scrolls, faith, god, perspective, universe,
Form: Free verse
A Poetic Mask
Passing shadows all through the night…
                   ...

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Categories: scrolls, confusion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Owl's Requiem
The rising sun has set.
Night has fallen.
The plow rests,
tillage and toil finished.
The corn ear withers,
but seeds are saved.
The scrolls are opened
event recorded;
the news spread:
"The sun...

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Categories: scrolls, bereavement, death of a
Form: Elegy
Premium Member An Ojibwe Girl - My Spirit

My people the Ojibwa are fierce and strong. A people of stories, myths and
knowledge.  On birch bark scrolls and stones their history is told....

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Categories: scrolls, native american,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Ojibwe
 
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My people, the Ojibwe, fierce and strong
A people of stories and myths and knowledge
On birch bark scrolls and stones their history told
And I, a...

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Categories: scrolls, native american,
Form: Narrative
She Sold Her Soul In a Bathroom Mirror
Wicked Witches vicious Wishes
Worst of Curses Hexed
Paranormal Victim Witness
Poltergeist are Vexed
Rows of Sixes Superstitious
Sacred Scrolls and text
I see dishes fly malicious
And She is surely next.
Sold...

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Categories: scrolls, evil, satire, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Men of the Minch
Beneath thunderous waves near craggy shores
Exist in frigid seas the ancient men of cold blue
Fallen angels who now cast to earth are kind no more
Courageous...

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Categories: scrolls, blue, mythology, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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