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Best Smoldering Poems

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Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: smoldering, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member No Anchor For Rancour
Upon those who yield to anger, I should take pity
because words they spit are like sandpaper, gritty.
A loathsome temper causes them to fume and fret,
sometimes...

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Categories: smoldering, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: smoldering, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Another Time
the waning moonlight thinly enveloped 	
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...

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Categories: smoldering, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Wine - An Erotic Romance
The video is intrinsic to the setting of the scene. The vocals and music track by ‘The Corrs and Bono’ are background music incidental to...

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Categories: smoldering, desire, love, lust, sensual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Feverish Fear - POTD - A Visual Video Poem - In Collaboration With Victor Buhagiar
POTD 13 March 2019

Welcome! - We are excited to release our very first Visual Video Poem. 

(I trust you will enjoy the complete production effects...

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Categories: smoldering, courage, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Your Seductress Speaks
You don’t know this woman
You haven’t got a clue
This paragon of beauty
Is a mystery to you

You think that I’m so gentle
You think that I am...

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Categories: smoldering, sensual, sexy,
Form: Quatrain
Preoccupation
I search for you eagerly
in the shadows of your words

               ...

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Categories: smoldering, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Royal Birth
the Sun in the west
smoldering with fire inside
afraid to explode, 
jumped into the waters below.

over this impetuous act 
the Day, in deep regret
snuffing all her...

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Categories: smoldering, analogy, birth, celebration, moon,
Form: Free verse
Call of the Wild
I envy those living as part of the wild
For I too, once heeded its call
A smoldering ember since I was a child
Urge, and belonging all...

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Categories: smoldering, humanity, journey, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Met In a Dream
In a dream, I went to him  
Hidden inside a wispy night 
Stars shining their twinkle lights
I sneaked into his slumbered thoughts

  ...

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Categories: smoldering, dream, heart, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lucifer and Hooch
LUCIFER'S gullet was as parched as hell!

   He said, "Lord, some cold HOOCH, would do me well!"

      Lord...

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Categories: smoldering, drink, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member I Will Not Break
I will not bow
I will not break
To think I might
Is a mistake

I know the truth
it sets me free
No matter what
you think of me!

Eileen Manassian

Matthew 12:20-...

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Categories: smoldering, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Circle of Gold
A sweet deep voice resonates across the empty air landing affection
Caresses the chin forming shapes off ladybugs melodies glide and swirl 
Guiding soul heart ablaze inside each...

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Categories: smoldering, beautiful, love, music,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Lifted Up
from suffering and pain
that is piped into veins
by the organ-less master
who relentlessly plays

from a congested gutter
of fake themes
hiding in deception
and callous clutter

from distaste of the...

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Categories: smoldering, environment, humanity, political, truth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs