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Best Stabs Poems

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Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: stabs, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stabs, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: stabs, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Working Out Isn't Working Out
I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stabs, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: stabs, war,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Doublethink Beliefs
  This Life

From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...

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Categories: stabs, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member November
...carries the wilted weight of autumn
                   ...

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Categories: stabs, autumn, celebration, earth, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She a Dream Raven, Ghost of Ill Repute
(1.)
Beware, Nightmarish Dreams Are Oft By Raven Sent,
(In Tribute To Edgar Allen Poe)

When incantations stoke fiery embers,
eerie nights, their sounds roust to remember
ghosts of yesteryears,...

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Categories: stabs, appreciation, art, creation, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Through the Door
Can you see them run to me – arms wide and laughing,
calling me, Mama: keeper of the stars, moon and hearts?
Can you see them kiss...

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Categories: stabs, dedication, forgiveness, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: stabs, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Rodin - New Icon
RODIN’S NEW ICON

Should Rodin live today would he be inspired
To sculpt a marble sequel to THE THINKER
Modern ethos means fresh image is required
To become an...

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Categories: stabs, allusion, creation, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death
Snowy tombs
               quiet grace
angel 
      ...

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Categories: stabs, baby, death,
Form: Verse
Feverish the Hex
I am very pleased to present a third collaboration with Robert Lindley,
an extraordinary poet who inspires and humbles me with his pen.

A Collaboration With Robert...

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Categories: stabs, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her...

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Categories: stabs, beautiful, depression, desire, dream,
Form: Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 7
I…breathe again…
Meditating on flowers of my pasture, plucked with my eyes,
Resting…open, like buds blooming, and resting…

“Take me…” he said weakly, so softly in my ear…

I...

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Categories: stabs, abuse, adventure, allusion, anger,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things