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Best Shies Poems

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I Look To the Moon
I look to the Moon, hanging aloft
Among the clouds so milky soft.
How must it feel, so high above?
So chilled and bleak and void of love.

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© Mike Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shies, depression, loss, lost love,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Where Can I Find You
Where can I find you?
Where are you hiding?
I've asked the Stars
they remain silent
I've asked the Moon
night after night
from full moon to crescent and back
she shies...

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Categories: shies, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Alive
It beats, It flutters
Its strong, Its weak
It bleeds, It heals
It hungers, It feasts
It breaks, It mends
It suffers, It flourishes

Its warm, Its cold
It makes a stand,...

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© Fuzzy Sk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shies, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Justice
Justice
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shies, allusion, betrayal, bullying, confidence,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Prize Roses
In bed looking out my window... (sighs)  
up at the moon with leaden eyes 
approaching bleak scarlet skies 
dawns spell prompt to arise. 
Fawn...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shies, rose,
Form: Nonet



Premium Member We Wait
The world awaits with bated breath
pause, listen and most all feel
there it is, a deep sense drumming
in the back ground coming to life.

we all feel...

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Categories: shies, birth, color, feelings, flower,
Form: Ode
Premium Member hope Haiku 207
moon shies away
clouds rain burst temper tantrum ~
kitten meowing

12/27/2023...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shies, nature,
Form: Haiku
A True Nigerian
A true Nigerian is brave like the Lion,
He is courageous, hospitable and kind.
He never shies away from responsibilities;
In his hearts of heart he controls all...

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Categories: shies, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Green Spanish Eyes - Part 1
Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
                 as we kissed when she...

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Categories: shies, bird, dark, green, lost
Form: Rhyme
Autobiography of Eyes
Hello! We are a pair of eyes,
gifted to a human so nice.
To express our peaceful cries,
a poet, on our behalves, hereby tries.

Above the tongue which...

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Categories: shies, caregiving, education, health, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Wolf
It must have been a difficult journey;
The path your life has taken;
To make you not trust another;
And left you feeling forsaken.

In bitterness and anger;
For past...

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Categories: shies, betrayal, love hurts, native
Form: Rhyme
I Will Love You Forever - Tale of a Broken Heart
Woke up early in the morning 
With eyes full of tears of happiness 
And a heart with a bit of craziness 
Walked towards the mirror...

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Categories: shies, betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, love,
Form: Romanticism
My Horse
I ride my horse, I ride it fast, I’ve never known it to complain,
it doesn’t speak, it doesn’t weep, it takes me through the pouring...

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Categories: shies, animal, horse,
Form: Verse
Tender, Bruised and Scarred.
Grief that constricts my heart,
Cages its screaming walls,
Grinding its bars roughly into its flesh…
Where they meet, blood oozes, 
Life does what it chooses,
Heart shies away...

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Categories: shies, death, depression, family, loss
Form: Double Dactyl
Premium Member The Mountain Goat
Stark against the skyline
On a pinnacle he stands,
Tranquility and peace divine,
In the domain he commands.

Leaping and bounding ever free,
And humbly we try to follow,
When approached...

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Categories: shies, animal, appreciation, beauty, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs