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Best Splits Poems

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When I Stop and Pray
When the storm clouds boil around me, 
And the lightning splits the sky--. 
When the howling wind assails me,
And life's sea is rolling high--
When my...

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Categories: splits, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: splits, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: splits, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Threadbare Clouds
Gray smeared sky like a quilt of rags
Winos sip rot gut from brown paper bags
Threadbare cloud crotch splits up the side
Rain pours down, you got...

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Categories: splits, angst, beautiful, change, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Hear Guitars A' Calling
I hear guitars a’ calling in the gloaming’s final fling
when sinking suns subdue their flames and fairies take to wing
as day departs, a yawning ash,...

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Categories: splits, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Upside Down Teardrops Falling Gently
Upside Down Teardrops Falling Gently

Upside down teardrops falling gently onto a magical mirror
as crystal chandeliers of soft light filters through reflecting
a treasure of pearls that...

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Categories: splits, allegory, allusion, beauty, desire,
Form: Free verse
Marionette
A marionette to the mind,
Whispering fading schematics,
Deluging the heart and soul, in a 
Juxtaposition of good and evil, 
Betwixt Heaven and hell, amidst
Snowdrifts that swirl...

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Categories: splits, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ether-Bound -Anacreontic Verse
Ether-bound,
into the blue
I’m flying
with his hand
clasped in mine.
Is this a dream?
Underneath us
earth is growing small.
But up and up -
wondrously we lift!
Above a mound
of clouds we...

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Categories: splits, romantic,
Form: Verse
Premium Member No Cuddles In Shadow
Written: October 09, 2023
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There are no blooms to snuggle in the twilight
No promise that it will ever reach the zenith.
Either the sky is clear or...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splits, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voyage
Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.)...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splits, adventure, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
Loves Silhouette
At times deaths vale splits open
 and shadows weave in and out.
 Your presence dances past me
 gently kissing my forehead.
 Rushing air catches my...

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Categories: splits, joy, kiss, love, night,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Broken Spell Check
A musician splits a chord of would
Super Hero where's a bright read hood

The baker gently needs his doe
A gardener has her cede to sew

Something old,...

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Categories: splits, humor, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hate
Hate's human folly—
A most tragic emotion,
A sign of despair . . . 
       It splits people asunder . ....

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Categories: splits, allegory, anger, betrayal, change,
Form: Tanka
Rising Spear of Light
rising spear of light
splits the heart of a closed sky
out tumble the stars...

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Categories: splits, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Moai
Quarried,  and carved from our earthen mother's skeletal
Backbone and under belly, were the Moai solid rock deities,
Stone guardians of Easter Island.
A mystical place, a...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: splits, adventure, art, beauty, culture,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs