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Best Skim Over Poems

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Premium Member A Skim-Milk Sky
Like a damp bath-towel,
a wet mist wraps itself around my shoulders
and my spine shudders at its touch.

A skim-milk sky retains a bluish tinge
as a yellow...

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Categories: skim over, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism



The Bard of Gort
Springing free from glistening 
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for 
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above 
A distant lark now hangs in 
Flight.

Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...

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Categories: skim over, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silver Waves Upon the Shore
Pushed there for a thousand years
and will be for a thousand more,
pushed there by the gentle winds
the silver waves upon the shore.

Ancient trees who watched...

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Categories: skim over, death, life, nature, sunset,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Miracle of Life
Dark night flees,
And the first incandescence rays
Of the glorious golden sun
Skim over the haughty hilltops
And filter through the dew-wet leaves
Of the tall and stately pines.
A...

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Categories: skim over, life, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Darkness
There is no more I need to know
We're lost in the night;
Washed in the candle glow
Of shimmering light.
*
In this moment longings flare
The time is now;
So...

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Categories: skim over, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Night In a Heavenly Way
The sun yawns in the horizon as it flutters its eyes 
Honey – yellow, orange, and shades of red 
as it  goes into a...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skim over, faith,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 1
Flings and wings and rings rejected…
 Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”

Penciled lines drew...

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Categories: skim over, lost love, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Flush of Living
My basket lifts from ground; I, eager, stand
inside it as I drift into blue air.
I see below - the slowly shrinking land,
above my head, a...

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Categories: skim over, happiness
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Return To Share Poetic Gifts
It was nearly two years ago, that I left the PS site
Bidding my friends fond 'farewell,' I took flight
If the door is ajar, I think...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skim over, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wishing In Vain
How I wish my poems could,
Soar higher and higher
Like a bird of limitless wingspan,
Dashing into horizons far!
But they skim like web footed water birds,
Tilting their...

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Categories: skim over, birth, fantasy, words,
Form: Blank verse
The Summer Field
Bees are buzzing in their hives
A pony tail swish, deters the flies
Long grass waves, majestic in the wind
And over the pond the dragonflies skim
This halcyon...

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Categories: skim over, animal, poetry, summer, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member So I Dance For You
| So I dance for you |

Awaiting I'm fixating upon my breath, becoming translucent between the day,
If I could only reach those sea of stars...

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Categories: skim over, absence, desire, devotion, heart,
Form: Sonnet
Stormy Sea
I watch a coral glow of sky
and see it mirrored by the sea;
I wish for eagle wings to fly -
away from you, away from me,
away...

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Categories: skim over, abuse, heartbreak, violence,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Café
I would sit there for many hours
Surrounded by my contemplative silence-
My senses as warm as my latte;
My mind as frosty as my cheesecake 

The mixed...

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Categories: skim over, introspection, passion, peace
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aquarius
I go where mountain streams converge
And stand with pitcher on the verge
Of a transparent tranquil pool
Where waters merge lucent and cool
There is the grass sparkling...

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Categories: skim over, imagery, water,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs