Best Solicited Poems
Look Closely
...Look closely, feel the harmless heat
enveloping black-diamond
petals in the glistening
garden of glossy geraniums.
There, sprouts rosemary dreams
from an u......
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Categories:
solicited, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Slave To Love
...HER
the chains —
roses tied ‘round hands and feet,
apple-scented la forza del destino.
the buds claw down her back,
send shivers down her spine,
h......
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Categories:
solicited, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Please, Don'T Call Me Your 'Friend'
...You will never write me.
You will never call.
You will never inquire about my day.
You will believe my heart will never fall.
Your words will be made
Of incendiary copiers
Of toddler’s glu......
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Categories:
solicited, friendship, life,
Form:
Free verse
On Getting a Second Opinion
...Some folks think their advice alone will suffice
But I’m inclined to seek a second opinion --
On a few occasions, I’ve sought some thrice.
I don’t think getting more knowledge is a v......
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Categories:
solicited, how i feel, perspective,
Form:
Villanelle
She Still Cries
...The woman
That I have loved with lust
But she
Has loved me with heart and soul
Can say
That I have made our trust a maze
Like the fox that cried wolf
I played a game to gamble truth
And now
......
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Categories:
solicited, lost love, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
For You the Life
...good morning of day
tailor birds chirping out my window
mild breeze flowing
dawn of the white diamond
golden sunshine from the far sky
a piece of your smiling
fair and coolness of the surr......
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Categories:
solicited, love,
Form:
Free verse
Harmony 69 1st Movement
...HARMONY 69
The night of twelfth December `69
knotted together an icy storm wind
that whipped False bay`s waves
to white -frilled blankets.
Thunderclaps against primal rocks
resonated throug......
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Categories:
solicited, history, inspirational, love,
Form:
Epic
Walk of Fame
...Slaves to media hype
Feeding your numb minds
With news tripe
Celebrity Correspondence
Filled glossy pretence
Lost all feeling of common sense
In there defence, they are paid
To believe in thei......
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Categories:
solicited, slam, social
Form:
Rhyme
Resurrection
...Who could have known of their watch
Who could have told of their suspicion
Who could have told
That they were the harbingers
To my resurrection?
Me, I sat there
Plummeted
Engrossed in my ingratitud......
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Categories:
solicited, holocaust,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Karma
...With sultry eyes from the torridness, our summer solstice brings togetherness.
Hands are held in a romantic way and relationships forms.
Is this longevity or a subterfuge born?
The crowd of peo......
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Categories:
solicited, culture, deep, desire, faith,
Form:
Sijo
An Island Boy
...The refusal to serve the Monarch at/on the battle filed caused this family to be sentenced to life imprisonment, but within the mercy of the King he decided to send to an Island to serve the remainin......
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Categories:
solicited, adventure, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unmade, Fire and Ice lyrics, updated
...The demons come out to play, may they fall,
As they seek their next prey.
I was trapped on a merry-go-round,
Lost in salt-trodden earth and pain.
Forgive me
For praying to God for you,
......
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Categories:
solicited, anger, betrayal, dark, hurt,
Form:
Lyric
Comeback
...Is your comeback a symbol of faith or vengeance
Let it be clear if to light or darkness you pay allegiance
Don't make men victims of ploys up your sleeves
Meting out on them wrath as thieves
Suff......
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Categories:
solicited, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
She Fathered Me
...It was my lovely mother who devotedly fathered me;
She taught me wisdom and the ability to analytically see.
Fully guided me with discipline; sprinkling lashes, when necessary;
She trained me up, ......
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Categories:
solicited, appreciation, thank you, thanks,
Form:
Sonnet
Serengeti Blues
...Across the green Serengeti land, don't you know
A big road is being built to carry the filth
O where will the wide beasts now go, ever go
Shall we speak, shall we speak or die in guilt?
Cho.
......
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Categories:
solicited, animals, death, natureworld, drink,
Form:
Lyric