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Best Slight Poems

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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: slight, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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Categories: slight, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slight, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Broken
I wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -

once again

she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...

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Categories: slight, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonlight Serenade
Blindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...

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Categories: slight, sensual,
Form: Haibun



The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: slight, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Roses Roses Roses Potd
In all her glory, dawn has burst forth,

With a slight glow of early morning brightness

I sit in the bower, listening to birds in concert

And admire...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slight, red, rose,
Form: Free verse
Slowly
Slowly 

 ever so slowly

 overcome with emotion

building up ever so effortlessly

   inside

passions burning ever so swiftly

reside

deep in my heart

sweet smells of your...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slight, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Soul

I turn my head, and there she is once more
in her disheveled, worn, and tattered dress,
one pew behind me near the exit door-
she sits head...

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Categories: slight, emotions, feelings, poverty,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Flower -Part One-
“A Flowers Wilt”	

Witness the small existence 
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.

A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...

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Categories: slight, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashen Snow
An innocence we used to know
As morning dourly turns to night
Entombed beneath an ashen snow 

A cell phone yearning for hello
With hopes of answer growing...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slight, sad, september,
Form: Villanelle
Have You Ever
Have You Ever

Stood in a field of ripened gold grain
Lifted your face to be kissed by the rain
Felt in your heart the anguish of pain?
*
Held...

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Categories: slight, life, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"



“Ein bisschen Zucker 
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“

German accent 
smoky toned 
she purred

Periwinkles suavely winked, 
then played with his -

cufflinks

“Not now Schvee Tart” 
he...

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Categories: slight, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form: Romanticism
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: slight, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That's Some Trick
Bewitched again by autumn's laggard spell
Like alchemy, green leaves are turned to gold
Although the summer still has dreams to sell
I watch fall's silent sorcery unfold

Brisk...

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Categories: slight, autumn, fun, magic,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs