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Best Subdue Poems

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Aphrodite of the Morning Sun
Your honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…

Mane of a lioness suave...

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Categories: subdue, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme



Standstill
Strangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity...

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Categories: subdue, brother, death, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256
Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~ 

Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child 
So forlorn
For the poverty 
To which she was born.
Minds...

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Categories: subdue, poverty,
Form: Ekphrasis
Epistle Xviii - the Abandoned Son
I.
Father,
my knees
quiver and quake,
they bend
then break
like a reed
ensnared in
the tempest’s throes

II.
My sanguine palms,
stammering in fear of
Your reprisal,
whimper in their
muted state,
rendered silent by
their barbarity

III.
This timber crucifix,
once...

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Categories: subdue, christian, god, jesus, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hear Guitars A' Calling
I hear guitars a’ calling in the gloaming’s final fling
when sinking suns subdue their flames and fairies take to wing
as day departs, a yawning ash,...

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Categories: subdue, music,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Genocide At Wounded Knee
On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Categories: subdue, america, death, military, murder,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sip the Sunset
Alone, beneath the skies of sunset wine,
    infuse me with your golden minutes’ keep -
       break...

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Categories: subdue, appreciation, emotions, hope, longing,
Form: Rhyme
The Depression Destroyer
What causes someone to sink so low
And let an upright spirit to kneel and bow
To the pressures they are unable to undo
Neither can reverse this...

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Categories: subdue, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lili Marlene
Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...

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Categories: subdue, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Verse
Life is a Song
Life is a song,
incomplete, yet soothing—
lullabies lulling the world to sleep
with its balladic lilt, gently swaying 
to the depths of its nomadic 
syncopation.

Where I can...

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Categories: subdue, dance, dark, life, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Innocence of Youth
Acquiescing to love's defeat,
you subdue sad feelings within.
For when passion's all but over,
anxieties slowly begin.

Dominating reality,
bitter tears flow with brutal force.
And wash away the promises
that...

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Categories: subdue, emotions, feelings, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Quatrain
The Café
I would sit there for many hours
Surrounded by my contemplative silence-
My senses as warm as my latte;
My mind as frosty as my cheesecake 

The mixed...

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Categories: subdue, introspection, passion, peace
Form: Free verse
Invisible
Ignorant to the favoritism; a desire to be special too
Naïve to all the sarcasm and criticism; finding it easy to subdue
Validity still not broken as...

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Categories: subdue, life, recovery from..., sad,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Rock Me Slower
Again, you ain’t got the rockin’ time
To shake my waist jiggling a move
Between the thrill that leads to you
And a summer lost from faraway grooves.
Boy,...

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Categories: subdue, song, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tell My Heart
Please tell my heart to love a little less
It’s strength of love not quickly to confess
Please tell me heart to measure the amount
Of love allowed...

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Categories: subdue, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet

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