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Best Strummed Poems

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Premium Member Silence of the Stars
Mandolin melodies harmonised horizons,
yet the only strings being strummed
were those of my heart.

In the midst of enchanting melodies,
where nothing else mattered, but her,
we wandered barefoot,...

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Categories: strummed, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Acorn
Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me...

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Categories: strummed, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
Acid Rain
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Categories: strummed, music, nostalgia
Form: Choka
Premium Member Life's a Beauteous Dream
I dreamt a dream that renewed kindred memories
Rekindling past passions of moonlit love-themes,
Enamoring love-embers blooming heartfelt longings,
Crooning hints-romantic~ life’s a beauteous dream;

When merrily you enthralled...

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Categories: strummed, dream, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Corruption of My Lust For Life
Hibiscus rays of light
herald the sun's stretch from slumber
in a bloom of ravishing red passion- 
Oh! how I despise dawn's blushing optimism
and lust for life!
for...

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Categories: strummed, bereavement, death, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member home again -
I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the...

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Categories: strummed, heart, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Love Knows No Form My Love
one with the music 
a vestibule for magic 
love fills the night air


Let my aura deep red spill onto the page, 
I an instrument in the name of...

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Categories: strummed, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Sonata
Dream catchers chime in the wind,
like soft tones of a xylophone.
Melodic melancholic rain,
is free flowing,
but morning birds still arrive,
sitting on wet window sills,
singing about their...

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Categories: strummed, metaphor, spring,
Form: Free verse
Preserved Melody
On a smoky grey October dusk
ensnared by a timeless musk
my heart met those dulcet tides
mellows engulfing it in strides.

A frivolous soul I'd always been
a quarter...

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Categories: strummed, analogy, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Day
A torch carried on forever, indeed,
for the aggressive rhymer in me,
is alive again, unshackled and freed,
rising to challenge another day, I see.

As I found myself...

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Categories: strummed, art, life, poets, success,
Form: Quatrain
The Duck That Lost His Quack
The Duck That Lost His Quack


A Duck woke up late one day last week,
And all he could do was to squeak.
He looked everywhere and listened...

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Categories: strummed, animal, cheer up, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Highveld Storm
Oh Aphrodite! Mother of my two pearls
Venus of my night sky
Commander of my world

I fell for you like a comet
I burnt for you like Mars
Abide...

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Categories: strummed, break up, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Nature's Beauty and Sky's Heart Became One - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as brilliant glows entered sad heart and seeing eyes,
I...

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Categories: strummed, beauty, life, nature, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member When Nature's Beauty and Sky's Heart Became One
When Nature's Beauty and Sky's Heart Became One
 
Emerald glen, I first saw angel’s wings come down
one of Nature's bright treasures outside our small town;
as...

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Categories: strummed, appreciation, beautiful, desire, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism
Lovely Things For Darren
Lovely little songbird
   looking in my window
   smiles in your eyes
   warm thoughts flowing
   with marmalade skies

Pretty...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: strummed, friendship,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things