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Best Smokey Poems

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Premium Member Smokey Joe's Cafe
My father was a preacher
stood for everything good,
took my mother’s virginity
I was born to the sisterhood.

They left me on a stairway
a ghostly place to be,
down...

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Categories: smokey, life, me, old,
Form: Rhyme



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: smokey, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Indian Girl
--Virginia Slim--

Different eyes, the same world 
Ancient skin, dirty Indian Girl 
Smokey, eyes, exotic raven hair 
---Now listen to  the colors, of transformation, 
On...

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Categories: smokey, adventure, girl, life, native
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: smokey, winter,
Form: Personification
A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokey, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative



Breathless
An innocent look that never dies
comes to me with bedroom eyes
With a touch of flame
I can't explain,
It makes me crave
again
and again
Words, like chocolate,
my sweet addiction
My...

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© Alana Tye  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: smokey, passionme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Beauty Lies
I saw a dragon flying overhead
In fascination watched him flap his wings
Then suddenly, he was a thoroughbred
Whose smokey breath came out in giant rings

How gracefully...

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Categories: smokey, imagination, simple,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member If, My Darling
If, my darling we dance again with memories
of smokey eyes from the scent of love that lingers
in thoughts of yesterday when dreams were found
in passionate...

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Categories: smokey, love,
Form: Haibun
Music For You P.S. (Adult Content)
Music comforts the soul, cures that restless spirit.
       Some songs will make you crank up the volume so everyone...

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Categories: smokey, musicme, song, music, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Psychological Warfare
Sometimes, we expect 
the sun to rise and smile,
through hazy hellish clouds
carrying vindictive 
verdicts of venomous vultures, 
surmising hues of 
ink to pierce through 
pores...

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Categories: smokey, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Contretemps
Angry acts begin. 
Harmful words would never flare, 
Count to ten then once again. 

Wildfire spreading fast, 
With mistaken, muddled acts. 
Smokey aftertaste will last....

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Categories: smokey, allegory, allusion, analogy, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Burning
The Burning


It was seven days and seven nights
Or there abouts, I was not so sure
Life was shrouded in the darkness not at all pure
I lost...

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Categories: smokey, angel, angst, goodbye, suicide,
Form: Verse
Smoke Signals
If words could envelop fire,

I’d whisper softly into a quiet

note and let the pyre in my

lonely coffer spill out it’s smokey dispatch.

Letting pathos glow inside...

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Categories: smokey, for her, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Me Myself and I
My self-awareness is clear.
Blunt. 
It's ugly and painful. To call it enlightening, is putting it lightly.
Honestly though, it's relieving, intriguing, and totally necessary. 
Character building,...

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Categories: smokey, addiction, anger, depression,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight Tango
Moonlight tango

It was a Saturday night, in Buenos Aires, 10:30pm, to be exact. It was a hot summers night, and you could see, and feel,...

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Categories: smokey, dance, desire, men, moon,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs