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Best Set Afire Poems

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Premium Member Stained Glass Rainbow
At high noon mass
	thru colored glass
		a playful sunray dances
	for blessed sunday glances
reflected stained mosaic
hardly looks archaic
	when the rainbow’s set afire
		by heavenly orchestrated choir
	the congregation rejoices
moved...

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Categories: set afire, angel, beautiful, color, heaven,
Form: Rhyme



Categories: set afire, cat,
Form: Concrete
A Love Beyond Comprehension
She sat in the moonlight, her back to the bay,
Absorbed in thoughts of her own destruction.
A fortnight ago she had come to the rock;
At the...

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Categories: set afire, conflict, deep, destiny, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Touch
A TOUCH
On an impulse, but oft rehearsed in dreams,
A surreptitious larceny that seems,
In recollection pure and innocent,
Yet still concealing passionate intent
And yearning, for its chaste...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set afire, first love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Life's Greatest Regret
I watch the sun fall from the sky
tumbling soundlessly, the horrid quiet deafening.
As I see it touch the horizon, the world burns
and clouds, like kindling,...

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Categories: set afire, sad love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Gnarled
"People will forget what you said, forget what you did, 
but will never forget how you made them feel."   
   ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set afire, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gone
A moment...
                       ...

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Categories: set afire, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Love-Making In the Wild
Alone I roam the dreamland wood
sombre and empty, dark my mood
vain hope to meet my love denied
a throbbing, pumping ache inside 
afar a gleaming stream...

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Categories: set afire, passionsweet, love, sweet, ,
Form: Rhyme
Black In the Day
Thanks for making us tough, ever so rough

Black in the Day, Black in today
They still do us harm when caught unarmed
Still trying to hold us...

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Categories: set afire, black african american, change,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I'M Your Heartworm
I lust for sightless soil
navigate between rock and root
eating so much darkness
inhaling so much darkness.
The only sound ... my sticky body.
Moving the reddened earth. 
Back...

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Categories: set afire, desire, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith and Understanding
What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths 
Appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason
We believe...

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Categories: set afire, bible, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical...

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Categories: set afire, abuse, dark, emotions, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Answered Prayers
ANSWERED PRAYERS 

Crisp cutting edges are river aging...
Dusts, gossamer embracing carves and mounds.
All around unchanged. 
Solely, the wind curtains flow.
Seems, they are the only one...

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Categories: set afire, faith, god, hope, prayer,
Form: Verse
Sorority Symphony
Returning unto the college campus and our exclusive Sororities House...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...

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Categories: set afire, love, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Red Rising Sun
a red rising sun
sets aflame leaves of peach trees....
optic overload

spirit set afire
by October season change...
leaves swirl in the wind

 sun rises later
'pon October's sunny sky...
trees'...

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Categories: set afire, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs