Best Secreted Poems

We dared meet
in clandestine disguise
behind an overlay of water

Secreted
from watchful eyes peering
amid crystalline dancing droplets

Our first kiss
concealed from lurking eyes
extracting  jewels of youthful joy

Rainbow...

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Quixotic are we
                     Our bliss...

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It’s Jubilee tea at my auntie’s care home
Aunt Phyllis’s hair could do with a comb
But she doesn’t mind and puts on her hat
The queen won’t...

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It was not my intention to ever post in PS again
but through an open window I've caught a glimpse
and smell of what's been dumped into...

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Transparent smiles and fragile paper eyes
adorn a tender beauty, as a tear
of dew upon a rose in cool sunrise.
A sweet yet clear disguise of yearnings...

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Trembling in the silence of a fresh snowfall, awaiting the struggle of laughter and tears, the beautiful that comes from stars shadowed by flakes so...

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In these mountains, where I’m from, peace amazes,
With nostalgic beauty, its gentle praises.
Silence whispers to souls, believers know love,
Breathless inklings linger, a calm from above.
...

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People in my school have names for someone like me.
    Freak, crazy, weirdo, a spawn by the devil's decree.
   ...

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“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.”...

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Wrap your heart around the beautiful
Calming, soothing – in hues of joy,
Hope like nothing on earth can destroy…
Gentling the doubts, the confusion
With light that abides...

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Shore lights buttress the sky's 
vaulted dark and shed
a solemn hush along
the river's reach.
Set upon a calm, 
fishing boats drift
the night towing lines
of vicious hooks.

Below...

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Dew slips down the gentle leaf,
Unburdened by the sunlight’s reflecting
Grace over the mountains, misty
With remembrance, beautiful like the burning
Wonder of a painting, only these colors
Can’t...

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Seeping through families of oaks,
Surrounded by pines, laurels and all…
Gentle leaves, so alive – yes, they breathe,
Silent like the peace I find here,
Enclosed in their...

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He walked through the misty fog,
as day gave way to night.
The hinges rattled on the graveyard gate,
The sign for the dead to be alive.

The howls...

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Barefoot Dream  ©

A pair of slippers dance along 
the surf line, dank chill seeps into 
supple leather 

Laughter and joy stream out 
across the...

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