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Best Skillful Poems

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Premium Member Across the Border
"La Voz"

La Noche sin agua --- I spill my loving lips
Dancing, laughing, and celebrating life 
I am his queen, aka' dulce Nina
A night he must...

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Categories: skillful, anger, corruption, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skillful, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hands of a Master
At my ripe age it's plain to me
That wisdom can come painfully

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Categories: skillful, analogy, art, faith, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
The Old Truck In the Master's Hand
The old truck hadn't been used in a while,
But it should be good for a few more miles.
Under the hood, the engine was rusty,
And the...

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Categories: skillful, allegory, inspirational, lifeold, old,
Form: Couplet
Evergreen
I would have settled for a smirk,
for a quirk of smug lips
and that trademark dimple
that still makes me crazy.

I would have been happy
with a transient...

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Categories: skillful, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Rather Enjoy Being Played
By different lovers I’ve been kept,
some skillful and a few inept.
I always respond, unafraid.
I rather enjoy being played.

A Spaniard picked me up one time.
His classic...

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Categories: skillful, me, music, passion,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Broken Pieces
When first he saw her he was taken by her beauty, 
but she was sadly broken like a lovely flower vase
whose pieces were shattered and...

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Categories: skillful, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Joyful Season
The snow has gone and winters work is done
Song birds are singing building nests in trees
Earths axis turns and brings long days with sun
Bright daffodils...

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Categories: skillful, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member soft touch


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the same 
skillful way satin
serenades smooth silky skin . . 
the soft touch of spring 
is stimulating and seducing my senses 
- the scene...

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Categories: skillful, longing, love, senses, spring,
Form: Alliteration
A Smooth Sea
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner
Work smart, persevere and don't fear failure
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
Work smart, persevere and you'll...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skillful, courage, freedom, future, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Gave Me Wings
With your cruelty
You turned my heart to stone
Then with skillful hands
You crafted it with your chisel 
Chipping away small pieces 
Sculpting life like wings
Providing the...

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Categories: skillful, beauty, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet's Dozen - Birds
birds interesting
a collection from nature-
all so beautiful

The Storm Petrel's are small birds that seem to hover,
little sea birds that appear to be walking on the...

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Categories: skillful, bird,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bowlers Poem Award
You bowled the ball...that made them fall...
'twas done in games and pleasure...
Many saw... with thrill and awe...
as you bowled with skillful measure....

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Categories: skillful, social, sports
Form: Rhyme
My Words Do Not Match Yours
Insignificant,
My proses are nothing without you-
but scribbles, through and through
I dream a dark weary blur
of letters, a phrases, going by in a flur-
Even that; my...

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Categories: skillful, angst, beauty, creation, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Piano Teacher
Piano Teacher

 Adored her timely teaching skills
Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed!
 even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me...

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Categories: skillful, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs