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Best Strummed Poems


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 the amber moon
Peek through moonbeams rising up so lar......

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Categories: strummed, autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
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 wandere......

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Categories: strummed, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Acid Rain
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Categories: strummed, music, nostalgia
Form: Choka

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Corruption of My Lust For Life
...Hibiscus rays of light herald 
sun's stretch from night to twilight
in wakening blooms of ravishing red passion—
Oh! how I despise dawn's 
blushing optimism and lust for life
for I am too young ......

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Categories: strummed, bereavement, death, innocence, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night of Love in Andalusia - Revised Repost
...I lounge lazily on my deck chair 
Up high in the spacious loggia 
Loafing the time away, patient, waiting..... 
The ocean ebbs into the small bay 
As the sun sets far away over the horizon. 

F......

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Categories: strummed, dance, love,
Form: Lyric
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......

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Categories: strummed, dream, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member home again -
...
I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the sacred sake of unsated thirst
   beg its thrums be not now abounding ...

each dream comes haunting, dusted......

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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 poetic rage,
                    ......

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Categories: strummed, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Sonata
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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 d......

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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 of this world I'd seen
yet......

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Categories: strummed, analogy, song,
Form: Rhyme
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 to different things, 
Even heard sounds all around, fr......

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Categories: strummed, animal, cheer up, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
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 lost deep in Tolkien,
with ......

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Categories: strummed, art, life, poets, success,
Form: Quatrain
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 in my trajectory
While guided by stars

Your so......

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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 heard voices from Heaven, soothin......

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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 brilliant glows entered sad heart a......

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Categories: strummed, appreciation, beautiful, desire, fantasy,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry