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Best Shines Poems

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Premium Member Sun Shines On the Righteous
It’s only the good that die young.
I sadly have found it seems true.
While evil across earth is flung,
God’s purest of souls are too few.

I sadly...

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Categories: shines, irony, people,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: shines, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With Love For You
Sun flow progressed from east to west,
   with rays of light, the day is blessed.
        ...

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Categories: shines, love, nature, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Goodbye
(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shines, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whose Muse Elusive Dew
The worldliness within the sphere     
reflecting morning light, 
as poignant as a single tear 
idea bright is crystal clear 
and frames...

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Categories: shines, destiny, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: shines, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: shines, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Carpe Noctem
Up above the moon shines brightly;
starlight touches earth so lightly;
passions teasing impolitely.
Midnight whispers, “Carpe noctem.”

Blowing soft the summer breezes
through her hair as nighttime pleases,
and the...

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Categories: shines, longing, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: shines, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Morning Or Mourning
Such precious gemstones
Morning dew shines like diamonds
God’s tears from heaven

Written on 18th February 2 days before my father died


Posted 22nd February 2015...

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Categories: shines, beauty, loss,
Form: Haiku
My Heart Has Found a Home-Song Version
My heart has found a home (Song version)

So many years alone-
my hearts without a home
Nights were filled with fear-
my heart shed a tear

My loneliness had...

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Categories: shines, for her, heart, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In the Gloaming
That first glimpse of purple in the gloaming
As dawn softly rises in morning skies 
Ascending along with nature's colors
Is a look of faith and hope...

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Categories: shines, color, inspirational, morning, purple,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Wings of a Butterfly- POTD - Collab With My Sister Cecilia Crasto
POTD 10th May 2018

A dedication to our departed Mum, Anne Forbes.
 And to all the dearly departed Mums who celebrate Mother’s day on the second...

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Categories: shines, dedication, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silent Reverie
When life becomes confusing,
my only saviour is my 
simple musing.

Susurration of sighs,
reflect sands of time,
like an unbalanced hourglass.

As words lose 
innocent connotations

i drift into my
silent...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shines, analogy, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Fine
This life is fine
The world is mine
Though I can’t stop
The hands of time

The birds all sing
And flowers bloom
The sun still shines
And chases gloom

And I can...

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Categories: shines, beautiful, life,
Form: Carpe Diem

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