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Best Snapshots Poems

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Premium Member Tattered Pages
In the recollections of my journey thus far, the tattered pages of my life flutter
in my mind.  Like snapshots of times and places in...

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Categories: snapshots, life, memory,
Form: Haibun



Peircing Silence, Screaming Thoughts...
Here in my room,
I lay in my bed,
With every thought of you,
Intruding my head,
Like snapshots in my brain,
Of the last thing you said,

My gut is...

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Categories: snapshots, lost love, love, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Photographs and Poems
With my brightened lens, I watch you
mystically zooming in     zooming out,
and my eyes focus on the shutter where
 a hundred gulls...

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Categories: snapshots, art, beauty, film, words,
Form: Imagism
Escaping Rhymed Detonation
Malevolent imploded uncontrollably, 
  twisting wildly maniacal posies
   amid diabolically toasted brainstem, 
angst uncompromisingly yanked tresses 
  purging stinging speech patterned...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snapshots, allegory, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Hey Stranger
I wonder what you'd say 
If I met you today 
in another time 
in a better place. 
Somehow,Somewhere 
Would you recall my name?
Would you recognize...

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Categories: snapshots, love, , cute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Real Cliffhanger
It was tranquil sultry August, and the birds were singing,
The insects were all buzzing, and toad frogs were springing.

And I was deep in the mountains,...

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Categories: snapshots, adventure, bird, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Walk Through the Trees
Birdwatching had become for me, such pleasurable summertime hobby,
So I was often among the trees, young ones or those old and knobby. 

I chased rose...

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Categories: snapshots, bird, fantasy, friend, green,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Into Nightscape
High above, the storm grows bizarre 
O maddened sea , rattling the mast;
My fate near water’s edge, aghast 
A life shuffling as night is cast
All...

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Categories: snapshots, adventure, dream, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Debts Paid
Pieced together thin slices
like a slivered moon
mosaic
cobbled snapshots of splendor and pain

Fractured glints of crashed boundaries
uncollected past dues
mingled souls’ shredded fabric
a patchwork insane

shimmered moonglow does...

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Categories: snapshots, forgiveness, happiness, hope, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mama-One In a Million
She was much more than a beautiful Mother
Never desired to be anything other
Her family became her first priority
Her gift for teaching, she shared in charity

When...

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Categories: snapshots, life, mother
Form: Rhyme
Tumbleweeds
Memories tumble through my mind, 
rolling aimless, some have been...
missing for a while.
I try to fill in the blanks. Others, 
I sweep into already dusty...

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Categories: snapshots, angst, family, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Phantoms You Have Carried
The clearest blue became mottled with age,
and I only recently began to notice.
Time-soaked eyes, foggy mirror to my own,
reflecting a frail wire, just out of...

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Categories: snapshots, absence, age, bereavement, dad,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Pie
Apple pie, fresh from the oven
cools on a rack, whiffs of cinnamon-nutmeg
aroma rise through the pastry vent
then drifts out through
the kitchen window opened an inch...

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Categories: snapshots, autumn, food,
Form: Free verse
Microchip Madness
Technology is changing day by day, 
the benefits? enormous, one might say, 
is miniaturization a price too high to pay? 
not necessarily the smart and...

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Categories: snapshots, science fiction, universe,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pages In Time
In recollections-
of my life's journey, thus far
the tattered pages flutter
     in my mind, snapshots  . . .
black and white and...

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Categories: snapshots, dark, memory,
Form: Choka

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