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Best Silver Tongued Poems

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Melted Ice Cream Promises
You swear your word is solid
as a silver serving spoon
Well, why does it always feels like
another mis-spoken dog day afternoon
		Hotter than July
in the middle of...

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Categories: silver tongued, allusion, metaphor, perspective, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Don'T Fall In Love
Don't Fall In Love.

It will seem sincere,
Honest and true.
But in the end
You'll be broken too.

Stay away from them,
The silver-tongued snakes
Because love isn't worth it,
Don't put...

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Categories: silver tongued, break up, heartbreak, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loathsome Bard
He stands before us
to deliver
a poem, a prose, a
verse a rhyme, or message.

His manner quite
manifesting,
and his confidence
puts the crowd at
ease.

Soon and very soon,
too soon- we...

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Categories: silver tongued, funny, humorous, imagery,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Haunting-2
THE HAUNTING
 
Entombed behind isolation's walled prison, a haunting 
Malice has so trapped me within, evils chamber of the forsaken.
It crouches beneath shadows shroud, its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver tongued, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Being There
2, 000 people in this God forsaken crest of a town
Am I the only one to keep the balance
To count the half second before midnight
To...

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Categories: silver tongued, angst, childhood, faith, teen,
Form: Free verse



Pathologic
Tall tale possessed
Dark heart held ransom
Handsome silver tongued
Slang sucker-punched
Black his blue eyes
Wince at nothing
But truth testified...

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Categories: silver tongued, angst,
Form: Free verse
Tongue Ode
the tongue is just another muscle
gives strength to what we think
amidst life's daily hustle bustle
helps thoughts to words interlink

so the father with his mother tongue
speaks...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver tongued, food, funny, health, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Haunting
Entombed behind isolation walled
 Prison,
A haunting malice trapped me within.
Crouching beneath shadows shroud,
 Leering eyes pierce.
Through darkness’s pitch black,
 Covenant.
Pacing beast intercepting motions,
 Movements, mocking...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silver tongued, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse
The River of Life
The River of life 

The mountain ice gave birth to a river
Crystal clear down rapids that were an ecstasy
Of sexual pleasure smoothing rocks  
Foaming...

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Categories: silver tongued, confusion, cool, corruption, crazy,
Form: Blank verse
The Monster Without Purpose
A mountain of grounded rock reaching to the skies
A rabbit burying into a whole
A pig building a house of straw
Why, concrete little pig, brick and...

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Categories: silver tongued, imagination, nature, people, philosophytime,
Form: Free verse
In the Heat of the Battle
Spare me the goof,
O dear Captain,
Hear the rattling mess tins,
My dear old kit bag,
Worn out in action,
I lost my hold-all,
The spare drawers’ cotton,
A half-full water...

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Categories: silver tongued, hero,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Mirror
Oh! How it must have looked back then
How you looked oh so small
As you gazed into your future
In that mirror on the wall
Family is as...

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Categories: silver tongued, hero, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member '"babylon the Great"
from your “Shores Of Babylon.”


“Babylon The Great”

Seducer, thou are wicked Babylon,
And be silver tongued as serpent slither.
With souls to credit thou doeth bond,
Conformed to thy...

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Categories: silver tongued, allegory
Form: Sonnet
Arbitration
A milk bottle of combustion is a silver tongued spoon. A dragon headed fortress underground. Weaving wavering waving wandering. A teaspoon of cataclysm in giant...

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Categories: silver tongued, best friend,
Form: I do not know?
Broken Mojo
See me a visualization of the truth. A fatal portrait selfie. A dose of reality. 1zt card life dealt me waz the high joker. Nocturnal...

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Categories: silver tongued, confidence,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs