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Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: set adrift, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silence of the Waves
Mirabelle orb ascends,
under clementine and pomegranate skies.

Absent,
in delight of daylight.
Eyes set adrift in dawning daydreams.

Calm heart is an oceanic concerto,
flowing along sapphire tones.
Deep breaths walk...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set adrift, assonance, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope
Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope
 

Across the dance floor, your soft sashaying gown flew
with its bright waving gleams of silver dust and blue;
within...

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Categories: set adrift, blessing, future, heart, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set adrift, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whisper of Death
My life spirals ever downward...
The grave taunts me with its laugh.
Death's bony fingers are affixed my throat
As the jester of my unmerited epitaph.

My angst at...

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Categories: set adrift, angst, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Your Love Redeemed My Faith In Hope - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Across the dance floor, your soft sashaying gown flew
with its bright waving gleams of silver dust and blue;
within that blessed gaze, lonesome heart jumped a...

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Categories: set adrift, emotions, hope, romantic love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member -untitled-
A gentle tickle belies the sadness
as the corner of my eye swells and my vision blurs.
The beauty and the joy fading from my mind,
the "what...

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Categories: set adrift, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member midnight insight Anacreontic Verse
midnight beckons
I don't count down
just sit quite still
for fear I'll drown 
inside my eyes
are memories
that's where you live
where life's a breeze
to take me back
I close...

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Categories: set adrift, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Pregnant Lass
A pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the...

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Categories: set adrift, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
A Musing
She said, if I correctly recall,                  
That, for...

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Categories: set adrift, destiny, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Periphery
On a path laid as a snake,
Trodden down a winding wake,
Curls and slithers into night,
To thrones of ever-dimming light;
I hold still and gripped with feeling
In...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set adrift, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Embracing a Dream
Today I'm feeling overwhelmed by love,
beyond happiness; I'm soaring above.

It's gentle and yet harbors such power,
lingering like the scent of a flower.

I thought that I...

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Categories: set adrift, beautiful, emotions, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet
We Who Laugh Last, Laugh Best
That foolish stranger who had wandered into town
bickering with folks, trying to shove them around
was nothing more than an old worn-out clown.
Beneath Soup Creek Bridge,...

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Categories: set adrift, community, poets,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Seeking Serenity
My mind to arms to hands to oars to lake

               I...

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Categories: set adrift, appreciation, life, nature, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tethered To Oblivion
Short shadows stretched by a sinking sun,
darkness denotes the day is done.

And Sol slips over the edge of the Earth 
tethered to oblivion,
and yet, shackled...

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Categories: set adrift, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things