Best Submits Poems
Christmas Music
...Traditional Format
Compassion’s finger strums another note,
he listens as the angels start to sing,
recalling lines from what apostles wrote,
indwells the spirit held by Heaven’s king.
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Categories:
submits, angel, christian, christmas, faith,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poet Without Inspiration
...The wait seemed eternal to feel inspiration.
Minutes were mountains as each one ticked by,
my hand poised grasping a pen, and then
seated without hitting one stroke on a key.
A closed......
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Categories:
submits, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Winter Leaves With No Smiles
..." The change of seasons lessens the pain of a loss, but like stars it touches those we love leaving memories no one can steal."Quote by Poet
October Fall submits to December Winte......
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Categories:
submits, loneliness, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
End of the Road
...LOST SOUVENIRS
Your distant gaze flits, nearly bare
Like a mist that smothers the road
Windblown by chill; here, everywhere
A promise ending as breaths explode
My heart trick......
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Categories:
submits, lost, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Paddy
...Paddy
His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short! He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co......
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Categories:
submits, dog,
Form:
Prose
Winter of Deception
...The eddy pulls hard against my torso
panic rises and surfaces, my vsion starts to zigzag
I swim harder in the strong currents of confusion
How did my life become a battle
My father once seemed ......
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Categories:
submits, familyfather, father, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Beyond Paranormal
...Through scientific perspective, they are paranormal
With whimsical understanding, such can be magical
Some philosophers consider those as metaphysical
Unearthly, ethereal, mystical, transc......
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Categories:
submits, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Rope Play
...Under cold lights, dark air and the still,
All is quiet, nothing spoken no sound,
Hangs the softest of rope from the hardest of beams,
Hanging in a straight sort of proud,
Reaching right dow......
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Categories:
submits, passion, relationship, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Quatrain
Sanctification
...Forest undergrowth,
Submits to the rising sun:
Rays of forgiveness.......
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Categories:
submits, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Risen From the Foam
...Honeysuckle blooms and between my teeth, I tease it
like nipples on a lover's chest, so sweet though milk
is long gone. Salt and sweet the breast, my tongue flits
amongst love's sweat. Her skin fl......
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Categories:
submits, allegory, beauty, love,
Form:
Ottava rima
My Words
...Sometimes my poetry is just a case of words,
and not necessarily my reality;
and that’s what is so beautiful about writing
You can be who you want to be on any ......
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Categories:
submits, angst, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
Verse
Green Bananas
...A time is reached in life if one remains
Alive to tell the tale: those certain things
He once performed routinely, ascertains
The notion, habits must desist which brings
About awareness: His ......
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Categories:
submits, death,
Form:
Sonnet
Hydrangea Influence
...Hydrangea Influence
Pull of gravity drawn on the senses, hydrangea scent
Fragrance bliss, orgasmic burst, flowering forth
Explains beauty one petal at a time in naked white
Flavors come on nasa......
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Categories:
submits, adventure, beauty, flower, image,
Form:
Free verse
The Mighty Eye In a Brief Eclipse of Time - Part 2
... Continued from Part 1
The trees, they hang in time and space around me –
trees, which in time before had swayed,
so gently tugged by ocean breezes,
trees, which in time before were ......
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Categories:
submits, nature, space, time,
Form:
Potato Mountain
...Potato Mountain
I will arrive
an habitual escapee
from the rabbit warrens
of central planners
By ferreting north
in search of
breaks in the maze
rifts in the grid
I will follow
a stre......
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Categories:
submits, mountains,
Form:
Free verse