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Best Set Down Poems

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To the Alley of Your Heart,I Come
Early rain falls gently

like your fingers 

running softly through my hair

in our cabin down the valley

The wind breathes lightly 

like your lips 

treading kisses ...

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Categories: set down, absence,
Form: Free verse



Sonnet 31 'How High the Bar That Makes a Poet Real'
How high the bar that makes a poet Real!
(He walks in mists, and shadows of himself)
To be a poet, is to burn with steel
Set short...

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Categories: set down, funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Look Ahead
When breathless pain of sorrow 

                   ...

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Categories: set down, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Her Wonderland
Early rain falls gently

like his fingers running softly

 through her tousled hair

The wind breathes lightly

like his lips treading velvets

on her cheek,along her neck

and across her...

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Categories: set down, happiness, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being Your Eyes For Swell
Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the...

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Categories: set down, appreciation, art, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cruise To Alaska
The trip was a riot of color,
It brings a myriad of queries,
Fantastic tales of utter darkness,
Views' visible roots were explored. 

Mainsail surges,
pungent froth carried wave...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set down, analogy, appreciation, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Secured Position of Mine
Since God already wrote my name in the Book of life permanently
I'm now granted precious inheritance absolutely

Receiving His blessings of great bounty
I must worship Him...

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Categories: set down, appreciation, christian, faith, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Maria
It broke her heart
when Franco died
he’d been her soul mate
wed over fifty years
he’d been her life

For her Franco
she had a ritual
lit a candle every night
so...

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Categories: set down, death, devotion, life, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Ruled the World
If I ruled the world I'd paint it mostly blue,
Spiders would build the finest webs - I'd decree the morning dew,
Auroras would shimmer above the...

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Categories: set down, humanity, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why I Love Him
I love Langston Hughes. I've written about him before. I've written about the Dream Keeper. I love the theme of dreams. You should read his...

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Categories: set down, tribute,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Water Tower
The water tower stands above the town and can be seen for miles around.  It has a 
ladder leading up to the base of...

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Categories: set down, childhood, faith, father, lifewords,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Re-Found Visiting Qualicum Beach
We met a few years ago, then suddenly you were gone
We danced the very last dance to our favourite song

Happenings in our lives took control...

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Categories: set down, love, passion, people, placesme,
Form: Couplet
Goodbye
She's had enough of my clever lines
Thinking back on all those times
When my dreams were just a story 
She... wonders if anything's real 
Does he...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set down, break up, destiny, emotions,
Form: Lyric
A Fond Farewell To the Soup
A Fond Farewell to the Soup
You've all been "Souper".

As I set down at the keyboard
My eyes are filled with tears
For I’ll be saying “ Good-bye”
To...

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© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set down, feelings, friendship, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paying For Lies With Lives
"Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles." - Iliad, Line 1

Western dreams were born in wrath,
Overmastering all the noble aims of reason.
The bloom...

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Categories: set down, angst, death, history, introspection,
Form: Chant Royal

Book: Shattered Sighs