Best Stemmed Poems

Lavish luscious liaison
Orchestrated obsession
Nocturnal nebulae
Gifted graceful gallantry

Secluded sanctuary
Tiffany telltale turtledoves
Effervescent ecstacy
Metaphysical mascarade
Magically manipulated mandolin
Erotic entanglement 
Delectable daredevil demigods

Rhythmic romance rhapsody
Openhearted opulence
Secret sensuous seduction  
Exquisite exotic elixir
Sumptuous scent of long stemmed roses



AP: 1st place 2021

Submitted on June 24, 2019 for contest YOUR PERSONAL PERFECT POEM...

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Long-stemmed Promises 

sweet babies
need sleep, sustenance and love.
Sounds easy enough. 
 
Ask the sleepless mother
who feels the diaper rash more
than the infant.

Ask the mother whose child
is the bully or the bullied or
the social outcast.  

Ask the mother of the child
Hooked on drink and drugs,
the...

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She lies upon this bed with a rose across her chest, symbolizing all that she once had and will not too soon forget
But his conscience can’t be bothered with her pain, and the tears that stain her pillow one by one they call out his...

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We were once bejeweled dolphins frolicking
within the starry glitter of a spiritual sea
our freedoms were gilded and fathomless
then eyeless ogres of mayhem and madness
steadily parched our happiness and peace
tempered our smiles, muffled our clicks...
until there was nothing, but blackness left.

They've molded us into skittish goldfish
trapped...

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I’ve turned the corner, finally gone around the bend 
  Was a long learning curve, brought me here to no end
  And now looking back I see, a spiral staircase descend 
 Followed blindly into a hell, where this poem was penned 

By
David...

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"she spoke of him quoting others.
Were his quotes of stories, might I call him
a storyteller.
Were hius stories of Ballets, might
 than I speak of him as a songster.
Then he speaks of unknowns and
 sceince: so then shall we call
him and unknown sceintist.
Then who's works are...

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