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Best Sterling Poems

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Premium Member sterling stars
moon 
sweeps like
a lantern 
glazed in sterling 
stars...

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Categories: sterling, moon, muse,
Form: Lanterne



Lily Letters of Jasmine
  Dear grandma, 
       you were my litchi  s u n r i s e, 
 ...

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Categories: sterling, deep, emotions, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Splitting Sunsets
Sometimes my soul 
resembles distant horizons, 
like burning stars 
abandoned between
  dusk and dawn.

When the 
     sky hangs 
as heavy...

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Categories: sterling, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Finespun Fingers
With finespun fingers of silky words
brushed with passionate warmth cashmere,
fill my pillow here with your lush and luscious thoughts
so my starry-eyes may wander hushed sighs,...

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Categories: sterling, fantasy, imagination, muse, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreamy Mood of a Muse
Dress my dreams agleam your soft sterling tiffany

    on chiffon cream moonbeams fly your mused rapture.

      In...

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Categories: sterling, dream, imagery, inspiration, muse,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Hydrangea Hymn
In the marshmallow 
mirth of blueberry 
beginnings of bliss,
I wish upon stars
that blush behind 
mint-grey memories,
drifting along sheets 
of fluffy daydreams,
across orchid skies. 
For I...

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Categories: sterling, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Talk to me
M o o n is a rose quartz pearl,
     unraveling midnight musings,
         ...

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Categories: sterling, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timeless Tulips
Take me where merlot skies serenade songs of serenity,
I long for timeless tulips that twirl in beloveds embrace,
Where love is a thornless red rose, unfurling...

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Categories: sterling, absence, emotions, i love
Form: Pantoum
It's All In the Swing
Who says I’m getting old?
My hairs are not gray
Its beautiful sterling silver
The finest silver around
Who says I’m getting old?
My face isn’t bright red
I’m not having...

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Categories: sterling, funny
Form: Burlesque
The Party
The host was the most, an elegant man,
Who throws great parties like no one else can.
All were dressed to the nines for a special affair,
While...

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Categories: sterling, imagination, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Wouldn'T Let Me Be White
They wouldn’t let me be White 
Oh I wanted to be 
Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me 

They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to...

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Categories: sterling, allegory, anxiety, black african
Form: Quatrain
Twenty Quid Is Twenty Quid
Bill and Blanche set off, to the 'Yorkshire Show' they did go
T'was a yearly trip, and they would always show.

Each time Bill says to Blanche...

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Categories: sterling, funny, me, me, time,
Form: Couplet
The Twilight Zone
Driving along the dark deserted road,
only noise I heard was the croak of a toad,
passing on either side the silhouettes of the trees,
my window rolled...

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Categories: sterling, adventure, humor, science fiction,
Form: Light Verse
Ootcast Kirk
Aye and ’tis a bonnie glen

And for us the Laird’s enclave

Dinna fush the soldiers’ menace

‘Tis this moment that He gave.

And we gaither ‘neath the stars

And...

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© Doug Blair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sterling, christian, history,
Form: Pastoral
Symbols In Flight: 1941
I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose...

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© Jim Dunlap  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sterling, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs