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Best Slivers Poems

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Slivers of Light
A thousand yellow and orange slivers of light vibrate.
Their heat permeates.
Slowly they glide into pairs and groups, singing as one. 
Alas, this solitary yellow light...

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Categories: slivers, angst, horror, morning, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: slivers, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: slivers, horror,
Form: Narrative
Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: slivers, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: slivers, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet



Life and Death Across the Sky
Life and death across the sky
some must live and some
must die
   Broken wings and slivers
showing
   Shredded hopes the
wind is blowing
 ...

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Categories: slivers, death, friendship, imagination, death,
Form: I do not know?
Black Diamond
On the border of the obscure wastelands,
In the depths of shadows and torments,
Far beyond the land of Never Was, Never Will
Is a place where I...

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Categories: slivers, art, beauty, dark, dedication,
Form: Ode
The Father of Light
Silken slivers....

Aside the rolling sea

Falling from the knowing stars

Beyond these swaying trees ~

Shadows playing, now

Beneath their dancing leaves

Twirling toward the waiting ground

Amid this summer's breeze...

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Categories: slivers, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Dawning Desires - Repost
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Whispering apricot beams shine upon frilly sheers,
lazy shadows dance in daffodil dawn colors,
pirouettes of pleasured moments,
silently flowing on smooth brush stroke walls

You breathe, softly, the...

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Categories: slivers, morning, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Amber Balm
Stirring My Tea 12-22-23  
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Amber Balm

Evening settles into an overstuffed ebony chair,
 No longer pacing in little anxious circles
  Nor scurrying into hollow...

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Categories: slivers, drink, health, night, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Secret paths
A lamp post casts a shadow
Could we tip toe into those slivers of space
where opposites are true?
Breathe the air trapped beneath the sea?
Look and see...

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Categories: slivers, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Half Mast
Can one count the pieces of a broken heart? 
Can a flag half staff proudly wave?
Will kites still rise in staccato weather,
or partial freedom be...

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Categories: slivers, conflict, emotions, hope, math,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kiss the Rain
The air is shivered; to displacements whim.'
From the Ides of heaven’s sphere
As smote was the skin of a cosmic drum
Throbbing walls of pressure ‘push in’.
Then...

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Categories: slivers, seasons,
Form: Prose
Snowflake
A crystal lattice so Devine
Slowly falling on earth supine
Surely we now must redefine
Our place in nature so sublime

Such elegant beauty a shrine
A crystal lattice so...

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Categories: slivers, beautiful, nature, snow,
Form: Quatern
Daylight Robbery
Last night I stole a little - from time.
Don’t worry he’s got plenty on his hands
You could call it daylight robbery, but that wouldn’t be...

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Categories: slivers, fun, light, morning, sun,
Form: Narrative

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